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On the obverse is Greek P 99 and Greek P 116.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Description based on J. De M. Johnson, Victor Martin, and Arthur S. Hunt. Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume II, Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods (Nos. 62-456).<\/i> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1915)." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Greek" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 large fragment. Fragment height: 253 mm, width: 505 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Greek P 77" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Elections" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Carly Richardson, Elizabeth Gow" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Partially mutilated document concerning election to Municipal Offices. The chronological sequence of the enclosures of the papyrus is as follows :\u2014 (a) The minutes of a session before the strategus of the Hermopolite nome. (b) an official letter addressed to the strategus by the municipal authorities (ol άρχοντες), valuable in giving a brief summary of the whole affair, dated April 8th, 192. (c) a further letter, perhaps from the strategus to the άρχοντες, in which extracts from some minutes are quoted: July 23rd of the same year. Due to mutilation of the papyrus, the precise purpose of the main document is now impossible to guess.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Trismegistos: an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources, no. 19486.<\/i><\/a><\/div>
PDFs of Published Catalogues of Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, 1911-1979.<\/a><\/div>
Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.<\/a><\/div>
J. De M. Johnson, Victor Martin, and Arthur S. Hunt. Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume II, Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods (Nos. 62-456). (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1915). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.<\/a><\/div>
Arthur S. Hunt, Campbell C. Edgar, Select Papyri, Volume II, Non-literary Papyri and Public Documents (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1900). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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The first column of this papyrus is mutilated, and whether it formed the beginning of the document is not certain; Column ii and certainly part of Column i consist of a series of enclosures which must originally have been attached as evidence to a main document.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Found: Oxyrhynchus (modern Bahnasa), Egypt . Like most of the papyri in the John Rylands Library, the precise provenance of this item is uncertain. The majority of the papyri catalogued in 1911 were acquired in Egypt, on the antiquities market and through excavation, by Arthur S. Hunt (1871-1934) and Bernard P. Grenfell (1869-1926). Grenfell and Hunt acquired the papyri in the late 1890s for James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford, and then after her purchase of Crawford\u2019s manuscript collection in 1901 for Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908). Crawford had made some purchases of papyri on the antiquities market in Cairo in the 1890s, but these apparently included no literary papyri, so were probably not among those catalogued in 1911. As Hunt notes in the preface to the catalogue: \"Wherever the provenance seemed sufficiently assured this is specified; when no locality is named, it is to be inferred that satisfactory testimony was not forthcoming.\"." }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "1908" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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