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141. Papyrus 2017

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2017
Title:
Settlement of a Dispute (SB VI 8988, TM 17841)
Scope & Content:
Settlement through Aquilian stipulation of a dispute over possession of a parcel of a house-property in Apollonopolis between Ioannes, deacon from Apollonopolis, and Philemon and his wife Thekla, resolved in favour of the latter. The share had been previously mortgaged by a certain Thekla, Ioann...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16 July 647
Extent:
Papyrus roll, complete and well preserved, written on one side; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

142. Papyrus 2018

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2018
Title:
Sale of Part of a House (SB VI 8987, TM 17840)
Scope & Content:
Deed of sale drawn up in Oxyrhynchus, in which Philemon and Thekla purchased part of a house in Apollonopolis from Elisabeth and Iustina, heirs and successors of a certain Thekla, who had mortgaged part of the house as security for a loan. With autograph subscriptions of the witnesses; tachygraph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
644-645
Extent:
Two fragments of the same document from a papyrus roll, the first containing lines 1-31, the second lines 32-52; written on one side and well preserved, although lacking a few letters on the left-hand side. Mounted on cardboard and housed in two glass frames.

143. Papyrus 2019

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2019
Title:
Marriage Contract (SB VI 8986, TM 17839)
Scope & Content:
Marriage contract between a certain Heraclides from Apollonopolis and the daughter of Philemon and Thecla from Apollonopolis. Dated to the 31st year of Heraclius and Heraclius Neos Constantinus, Mecheir, 14th indiction. The papyrus belongs to the archive of Philemon and Thecla.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
26 Jan-24 Feb 641
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll written on one side, lacking the left-hand side; the preserved portion is in good condition. Mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.

144. Papyrus 2041

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2041
Title:
Acts of Peter (P. Oxy. 6 849; P. Lond. Lit. 221; van Haelst 603; CANT 190.II; TM 64453)
Scope & Content:
Acts of Peter (chapter 25-26 of the long Latin recension in the original Greek)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of 4th century
Extent:
1 leaf of a parchment codex, written on both sides.

145. Papyrus 2044

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2044
Title:
Petition to a Provincial Governor (P.Oxy. VI 904, TM 35311)
Scope & Content:
Petition to an unnamed provincial governor from someone having the status designation Flavius, who had replaced a certain Philoxenus in the post of riparius, but had not received the promised support in order to carry out his duties. The man is now asking to be released from this office and Phil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half 5th century
Extent:

Long fragment from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, almost fully preserved with the exception of a gap affecting part of the left hand side of the last three lines. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

146. Papyrus 2053

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2053
Title:
The Exodus-Revelation Papyrus (P.Lond.Lit. 203, P.Oxy. VIII 1075, TM 62314, LDAB 3477; P.Lond.Lit. 219, P.Oxy. VIII 1079, TM 61636, LDAB 2786, Gregory-Aland P18, van Haelst 559 )
Scope & Content:
Recto: Exodus 11: 26-32 with colophon. Verso: Revelation 1: 4-7.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Fragment of a roll or codex; writing is on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso; one column is preserved on both sides, the recto containing 23 lines, the verso 17 lines. Framed in a glass case.

147. Papyrus 2068

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2068
Title:
Sophocles, Ichneutae, fragments (P. Lond. Lit. 67; P. Oxy. IX 1174, P. Oxy. IX 1175 [=Papyrus 2069] fr.46 and P. Oxy. XVII 2081a; TM 62741)
Scope & Content:
Sophocles, Ichneutae, fragments (P. Lond. Lit. 67; P. Oxy. IX 1174, P. Oxy. IX 1175 [=Papyrus 2069] fr.46 and P. Oxy. XVII 2081a; TM 62741). Scholia and corrections added by a second hand. 17 columns more or less complete, along with 39 small fragments. c.450 lines preserved.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 2nd century
Extent:

Fragments of a papyrus roll, writing on one side only, preserved in seven cases 17 columns preserved of 26 or 27 lines each.

148. Papyrus 2098

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2098
Title:
Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1998, TM 1560)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from Glaucus, reporting on the comestibles delivered to stewards of Apollonius, the chief financial official (dioiketes), comprising gazelles, hares (alive and dead), goose eggs, turtle-doves (alive and dead), bunches of grapes. With original clay seal (TM Seal 974), possibly wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16 July 250 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete at the top and bottom, and damaged on the other sides, especially on the right (front); bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 5 lines written across the fibres, complete. Upper and lower margins are extant. The original clay seal is still attached on the right-hand side. On the back, there are a few words written along the fibres at the bottom. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

149. Papyrus 2208

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2208
Title:
Fragment of a Mime (P.Lond.Lit. 52, TM 64089, MP3 1747)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a mime or dramatic lyric entitled in scholarship as "Damsel in Distress" ( Page 1950) or Peirazomene (Heitsch 1961).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
1 fragment of a papyrus roll, writing on one side only, mounted in glass.

150. Papyrus 2210

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2210
Title:
Lease of Bulls with Plough (SB X 10573, TM 14331)
Scope & Content:
Arignotus, slave of Caius Servilius, leases two black bulls and a plough to Sarapion, son of Sarapion, and Apollonius, son of Heraclides, at a rent of twenty-seven artabas of wheat. The lessees are responsible for maintaining the animals. P.Wisc. II 51 preserves the end of the lease, with the sub...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
29 October-27 November 10 BC
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with insect holes and minor surface damage in places; joining P.Wisc. II 51, which contains the lower left corner of the sheet; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 25 lines, with only a small trace of the last; only the beginnings of lines 19-24 remain. Upper and left margin are extant, no space was left on the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

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