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Papyrus 2425
- Record Id:
- 040-004376295
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167712604.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2425
- Title:
- Poll-tax receipt (TM 981669)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt for the payment of ten bronze obols on account of the poll-tax (laographia) issued to Heracleides son of Chaeremon issued by a tax collector, whose name is lost, in Arsinoe.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-004376295 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2425 : Poll-tax receipt (TM 981669) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2402]/040-004376295
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a papyrus sheet, lacking its left-hand side. Written on one side along the fibres, mounted on cardboard and housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0135
- End Date:
- 0145
- Date Range:
- c 0140
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 73 x 69 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 110 x 120 mm.
Script: Quick cursive hand of the 2nd century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Arsinoe (?), Egypt.
Provenance:
Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Purchased by the British Museum from Dr A. N. Kondilios as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2305-2434, July 1921.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 364.
Federica Micucci, 'Seven Second-Century Tax Receipts from the Arsinoite Nome in the British Library', Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 59 (2022), 101-19 (pp. 110-13). - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Places:
- Tebtynis (Umm el-Breigat), Arsinoite nome, Egypt