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Papyrus 2703
- Record Id:
- 040-004376373
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100167868532.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2703
- Title:
- Poll-tax receipt (TM 981671)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt issued to Chairas, named Chaeremon in official records, of the Syrian quarters of Arsinoe to acknowledge his payment of twenty drachmas and ten bronze obols on account of the poll tax (laographia). The amount was credited to the month Mesore but paid in the next month.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-004376373 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2703 : Poll-tax receipt (TM 981671) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2404]/040-004376373
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A complete and well-preserved papyrus sheet with a vertical kollesis running a few centimetres from the right edge. Written on one side along the fibres. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard and housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0175
- End Date:
- 0175
- Date Range:
- September 0175
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 110 x 117 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 170 x 160 mm.
Script: Confident cursive hand written fast and occasionally compressed at the end of the lines.
- 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:
-
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. 115-17). - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)