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to the Heroninos Archive - Data conventions |
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 Published text
Papyri and ostraka are
cited by the conventions of the Checklist,
using collection designation, volume (in Roman numerals), number and,
if required, recto and verso; the page number for P.Lond. is also given
in brackets - e.g. ‘P.Lond. III 948 recto (p. 219)’.
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Other designations
When a document has been
re-published and given a new designation (whether SB or other), the previous
designations are given here. Also recorded are re-publications of the
text in collections such as W.Chr. and Sel.Pap.
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Location; inv. number
Name of city (as spelled
in its country); institution; inventory number (as given in the edition
or obtained from the curators).
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Material (recto/verso)
The options listed in
the two drop-down menu are:
Papyrus, Ostrakon, Other [Further specified as e.g. Other - inscription.]
Recto, Verso, Recto + Verso, Unknown
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Width and Height
Maximum extent in cm to one
decimal place (e.g. 8.8).
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Plate
Reference to hard-copy image
of the text, if any. We aim in future to add electronic links to online
images.
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Group
The texts of and related to the Heroninos Archive have been categorised
in groups following Rathbone, Economic Rationalism (1991) 410-20 (cf.
7 etc), with subsequent refinements, notably the addition of categories
1d and (new) 7.
The drop-down menu lists the following categories:
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All texts in database. [This is the default setting.] |
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Appianus estate, all texts. |
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Appianus estate, letters. |
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Appianus estate, accounts. |
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1c |
Appianus estate, other texts. [Internal texts.] |
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1d |
Appianus estate, external texts.
[I.e. external references to the estate or its people.] |
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Posidonios estate. [Internal and also external texts; so too in
3-10.] |
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Alypios estate. |
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Herakleides estate. |
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Dios estate |
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Philoxenos estate |
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Tesenouphis the wine-seller. |
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Family of sheep-lessees. |
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Titanianus estate. |
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Probably from one of the above groups (1-9). |
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Non-estate texts (re-used). |
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Literary. |
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11b |
Documentary. |
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Type of text
The type of each text is
summarised briefly and simply in English, such as Letter, Account, Receipt,
Contract, Register (official).
Most of the texts of the archive are Letters, and the rest are mostly
Accounts.
Estate letters and accounts are, where appropriate, then divided into
sub-types, as explained below. External texts and Non-estate texts are
far more diverse.
External texts in groups 2-9 have ‘(external)’ after the type
description. To enable searching for official registers and tomoi sunkollesimoi
of documents re-used on the estates (i.e. in group 11), the word ‘official’
is always included in the type description (e.g. ‘Declaration of
home-born slave (official roll)’).
Estate letters of general or indeterminate nature are just described as
‘Letter’. Some, however, are distinct types, described as
follows:
Letter - cover note,
Letter - instructions to deliver,
Letter - instructions to supply,
Letter - order to pay person,
Letter - order to sell,
Letter - order to transfer,
Letter - receipt for transfer.
These sub-types are largely self-explanatory, and can be investigated
by selecting an example. However, we intend later to publish and add online
a full explanation of the sub-types (e.g. ‘order to transfer’
is what the estate staff called an apolusidion, which usually began with
the command apoluson).
Similarly, estate accounts of general or indeterminate nature are just
called ‘Account’, but some are further described as: Account
- draft monthly, Account - final monthly, Account - draft of hay, Account
- individual pay, Account - working notes. For these sub-types, see Rathbone,
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Author, Addressee (Names)
Author: the name(s) of the
person(s) in whose name the document is written, translitterated as explained
under Further Instructions above. Names are given as in the document (i.e
with or without Aurelius or an alias - which we signify by ‘alias’)
- but not including patronymics, titles and so on.
The authors currently recorded are: Aias, Alkimedon, Alypios, Ammonas,
Ammonianos, Ammonios, Apollon, Apollonios, Appianus, Areios, Ation, Demeas,
Diodor-, Dionysios, Eirenaios, Eudaimon, Euporos, Euprodokios, Eutyches,
Geminus, Harpalos, Herakleides, Herapion, Heras, Heronas, Heroninos, Horion,
Ischyrion, Isidoros, Kaetis, Keleas, Kopres, Kyrilla, Kyrillos, Maximus,
Midas, Monimos, Nemesinos, Nilos, Ninnos, Ofellius, Palas, Pamounis, Pansa,
Pasios, Philippos, Philoxenos, Polion, Sakis, Sarapammon, Sarapas, Sarapias,
Sarapion, Silvanus, Souchammon, Syros, Theokritos, Timaios, Tryphon, Valeria
Cerealis.
A name that is restored or otherwise uncertain is followed by a question
mark (e.g. Heroninos?).
Note that individuals, or possible individuals, of the same name are not
distinguished. We hope later to produce an online prosopography.
Addressee: the name(s) of the person(s) to whom the document is addressed
(some documents, such as rough accounts, have no addressee), translitterated
as explained under Further Instructions above, and recorded as for Author.
The names of joint addressees are linked by ‘and’; thus a
search for ‘and’ in this field will find all such cases.
The addressees currently recorded are: Alexandros, Alypios, Anchorimphis,
Anoubion, Appiana Diodora, Appianus, Chous, Demetria, Dios, Eirenaios,
Gelasius, Hakous, Heraklas, Herakleos, Hermas, Hermias, Heron, Heroninos,
Kalamon, Keletes, Kopres, Longinus, Lucretius, Melas, Nilammon, Nilas,
Nepotianus, Olympiodoros, Petesouchos, Pontikos, Septimius Sabinus, Valerius
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Date
The internal date, if any,
given in a document, both as the regnal year and Egyptian month and day,
and the modern equivalent.
The field is blank for texts with no internal date. Partial dates are
recorded: e.g. accounts dated to year and month, the year or month of
a lacunose date.
The modern date is given first in the form ‘257 / 2 / 14’
(= 14 February 257), then the ancient date in brackets in
the form ‘(year 4, Mecheir 20)’.
Where identification of the regnal year is not sure, all possible modern
equivalents are listed: e.g. ‘249 / 9 / 12 or 259 / 9 / 13 (year
5, Thoth 15)’.
It is easier to search by Egyptian months, whose names are spelled: Thoth,
Phaophi, Hathyr, Choiak, Tybi, Mecheir, Phamenoth, Pharmouthi, Pachon,
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Year
The modern year, or range of years, to which the document is dated in
the text, or by prosopographical or other criteria, as explained in Rathbone,
Economic Rationalism, pp. 420-4, with some subsequent refinements (e.g.
Appianus is now known to have died by October 259).
Uncertain dates are marked with ‘?’.
The box has two sections. To find all texts which do or may date to 267,
type ‘267’ into both sections.
If you type ‘267’ into the first section and leave the second
blank, it will find all texts which do or may date to 267 or later.
Conversely, if you type ‘267’ into the second section only,
it will find all texts of 267 and earlier.
If you type ‘247’ into the first section and ‘252’
into the second section, it will find all texts which do or may date to
that range of years, including texts dated to a year such as 250 or to
a range such as 249-268.
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Publication history; bibliography
Chronological list of
editions and re-editions of each text, using standard abbreviations for
journals.
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Corrections
List of all entries in the
BL for each text, organised, as in the BL, by lines of the text. The names
of scholars are not recorded.
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Notes
This includes information about the text, if any, on the back, and gives a link if the text has its own entry.
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The data-base lists all published
texts which we think belong to the Heroninos Archive (Groups 1-6
in Data conventions, or to the archives and other groups of texts
related to it (as defined in Rathbone, Economic Rationalism [1991],
with subsequent refinements) (Groups 7-9), or probably belong
to one of those archives or groups (Group 10), including external
texts which refer to the estates and people of the archives. 
