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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Language Egyptian (Ancient) Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

1. Papyrus 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 262
Title:
Certificate of Sale of a House (P.Dime III 5, P.Lond. II 262, TM 44702)
Scope & Content:
Certificate of sale of a house with veranda and empty plots in Soknopaiou Nesos, purchased by Satabous from the priest Chairemon and his wife. The beginning of the papyrus has the Demotic text with the cession of the house (P.Dime III 5); after a blank space, two Greek lines contain date, place ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
21 November 11
Extent:

Complete, although much damaged by wormholes; from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres.

2. Papyrus 264

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 264
Title:
Demotic Hymn to Sobek (P.Lond. II 264r. descr., TM 130908) and List of Names (P.Lond. II 264v. descr., TM 25618)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. II 264r. descr., TM 130908, LDAB 130908): Five columns, three of which complete, written in Demotic and containing a hymn to Sobek, who is described as a cosmic and solar deity, source of all life; praises are addressed to him. Traces of an underlying Greek text, which was apparen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll, written on both sides, bearing Greek writing on the verso and Demotic writing on the recto; traces of an underlying Greek text on the recto, which was washed out, are visible. Overall well preserved, yet incomplete, with holes affecting the writing on both sides; housed in one glass case.

3. Papyrus 265

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 265
Title:
Demotic Text (P.Lond. II 265r descr., TM 63116), Metrological Problems (P.Lond. II 265, TM 25619, LDAB 4320, MP3 2326) and Census Register (P.Lond. II 265v descr., TM 25620)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Column 1 (P.Lond. II 265r descr., TM 63116): Demotic text. Columns 2- 8 (P.Lond. II 265, TM 25619, LDAB 4320, MP3 2326): Mathematical problems with headings, of which seven columns survive, not fully preserved. The text concerns the conversion between six different standards of artabas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Fragments from a papyrus roll written on both sides and containing several columns, not fully preserved; written in Greek, with one column in Demotic.

4. Papyrus 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 266
Title:
Accounts of Expenses (P. Lond. II 266, TM 25621)
Scope & Content:
Recto: columns 1-26: accounts with records of payments made for various purposes and arranged in sections, with several subdivisions, headed by names of persons; at the end of each section the amounts, calculated in talents and drachms, are summarised; columns 27-30: previously containing acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Accounts from a papyrus roll, written on both sides: on the recto are 26 columns, besides four which were washed out to receive a Demotic text. The verso, unpublished, is the continuation of the recto, with further accounts arranged in 31 columns, of which the first 6 are so defaced as to be illegible.

The papyrus is currently mounted in a glass frame.

5. Papyrus 1000

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1000
Title:
Petition to an Official (P.Lond. III 1000, Chrest.Mitt. 73, TM 22772)
Scope & Content:
Petition from Flavius Georgius, son of Silvanus, to an official whose name is lost, with regards to some debt that the man was trying to recover. Dated to the second indiction, Choiak 2, in the consulship of Flavius Ioannes, and belonging to the archive of the soldiers of the numerus of the Mauri.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
28 November 538
Extent:

Sheet from a papyrus roll, written on one side, nearly complete; the first line is damaged and a very few letters are missing on the left-hand side. Housed in one glass frame and mounted on cardboard. A name containing a Coptic character is in line 13.

6. Papyrus 2756

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2756
Title:
Accounts from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1974, TM 1537, and P.Zen.Dem. 121, TM 2318)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a papyrus roll additional fragments of which are now at Columbia Univeristy and at the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence. Recto (TM 1537): Greek account for bricks supplied for building works at Philadelpheia under the superintendence of Zenon over various months. Verso ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
254 BC
Extent:

Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll with two detached scraps, additional fragments of which are now at Columbia University, New York, inventoried as P. 5, and at the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence, under the inventory 3038. The writing is on both sides. On the front, there are two columns written along the fibres, broken off at the top; lower and right margins are extant; one line is written in the right margin, being the endorsement of the text on the back. Two sheet-joins are visible. The Columbia portion preserves another column which precedes those of the BL papyrus and the beginnings of lines 16-25 of the first column of the BL portion. The portion in Florence is still unpublished. On the back, there are several columns in Demotic, written against the fibres upside down in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.