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Papyrus 1653(A-B)

Record Id:

040-003882383

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100121666351.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147470256.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1653(A-B)

Title:

Tax Receipts (P.Lond. V 1747, TM 36932; P.Lond. V 1748, TM 38851), and List of Persons (P.Lond. V 1867 descr., TM 36979)

Scope & Content:

Upper papyrus (A)

Recto (P.Lond. V 1747, TM 36932): Tax receipt issued for Pamounis, son of Onnophris, for a payment made on account of the poll-tax; the subscription of Victor is at the end.

Verso (P.Lond. V 1867 descr., TM 36979): Coptic list of names, unpublished.

Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. V 1748, TM 38851): Tax receipt issued for Apollos and his son David, two monks, for a payment made on account of the poll-tax; three subscriptions follow; written by Musaeus. On the other side, there are remains of another document.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003882383

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1653(A-B) : Tax Receipts (P.Lond. V 1747, TM 36932; P.Lond. V 1748, TM 38851), and List of Persons (P.Lond. V 1867 descr., TM 36979)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[2350]/040-003882383

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Two papyrus sheets that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, written on both sides; one side bears 4 complete lines written across the fibres; margins are extant. On the other side, there are 12 lines written across the fibres.

Lower papyrus (B): Papyrus sheet, written on both sides; each side bears 4 lines written across the fibres.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0500

End Date:

0699

Date Range:

6th century-7th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: A: 90 x 134 mm; B: 52 x 168 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 220 mm.

Script: A: Recto: Rather large, clumsy minuscule hand; different hand for the subscription; Verso: Neat, regular upright cursive hand. B: Small, neat minuscule hand; different hands for the subscriptions at the end.

Custodial History:

Origin: Monastery of Abba Apollos (Bawit), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Both papyri were purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.

Former External References:

P.Lond. V 1747
P.Lond. V 1748
P.Lond. V 1867 descr.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 311.

Recto

Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), p. 208, no. 1747.

Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Two Poll-Tax Receipts from Early Islamic Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 131 (2000), 150–54 (p. 151).

Jean Gascou, ‘Reçu d'impôt pour le Prince des Croyants’, in Inediti offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65° compleanno, edited by Diletta Minutoli (Firenze: Gonnelli, 2012), pp. 132-34 (p. 132).

Verso

Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), p. 272, no. 1867 descr.

Alain Delattre, Papyrus coptes et grecs du monastère d'apa Apollô de Baouît conservés aux Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles (Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique, 2007), p. 121.

Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 208-09, no. 1748.

Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Two Poll-Tax Receipts from Early Islamic Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 131 (2000), 150–54 (p. 151).

Alain Delattre, Papyrus coptes et grecs du monastère d'apa Apollô de Baouît conservés aux Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles (Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique, 2007), p. 121.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Abba Apollotos Monasterion (Bawit), Hermopolite nome, Egypt