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Papyrus 1263
- Record Id:
- 040-003908279
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122675653.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469880.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1263
- Title:
- List of Nomination to Liturgies and Account (SB XX 14584, TM 14889, 133493)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 14889): Fragment of a list of candidates eligible for a number of public offices in Arsinoe, recording their names and amount of property.
Verso (TM 133493): Money account, dated 253, unpublished.
Another fragment from the same papyrus is now in Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, inventoried as G 32016.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003908279 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1263 : List of Nomination to Liturgies and Account (SB XX 14584, TM 14889, 133493) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2375]/040-003908279
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus roll, of lighter colour in places, with a few insect-holes in places; written on both sides; the front bears parts of 2 columns written along the fibres; the back was reused and preserves two columns written across the fibres. Another fragment is now in Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, inventoried as G 32016. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469880.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 208 x 185 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 235 mm.
Script: Recto: Proficient and neat sloping cursive hand. Verso: Rapid and irregular upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum) (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1263
SB XX 14584 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 444.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. lxix, no. 1263 descr.
Naphtali Lewis, ‘Notationes Legentis’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 14 (1977), 30 (1993), 27-33 (p. 28).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 383.
Peter van Minnen, ‘The Roots of Egyptian Christianity’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 40 (1994), 71-85 (74-77).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 142, 284-85.
Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, ‘A New Part of P. Vindob. G 32016: List of Nominations to Liturgies’, in Miscellanea Papyrologica in occasione del bicentenario dell'edizione della Charta Borgiana, ed. by Mario Capasso et al. (Firenze: Gonnelli, 1990), 503-06 and pl. XLVI.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1997), no. 14584.
A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (London-New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016), pp. 42-43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Heroninus, estate manager, of Theadelpheia, Arsinoite nome, Egypt, ca. 199-275
- Places:
- Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis/Arsinoe(Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt
Theadelpheia (Batn el-Harit), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Heroninus (TM Arch ID 103). Another fragment of the same papyrus is now in Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, inventoried as G 32016.