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Papyrus 2414
- Record Id:
- 040-004376298
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167716035.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2414
- Title:
- Poll-tax receipt (TM 981670)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt issued to a man, whose name is damaged, recording a payment of twenty drachmas and ten bronze obols as surcharges for the poll tax (laographia).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-004376298 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2414 : Poll-tax receipt (TM 981670) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2403]/040-004376298
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Almost square-shaped papyrus sheet in a poor condition, surface abraded bearing insect holes. Two large, regular and symmetrical holes in the centre suggest the sheet was rolled from right to left. A kollesis runs vertically down the middle of the sheet. Written along the fibres with the back being black. the papyrus is mounted on cardboard and housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0167
- End Date:
- 0167
- Date Range:
- 0167
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 85 x 107 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 115 x 150 mm.
Script: Rapid 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. 113-15). - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)