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1861. Papyrus 1977

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1977
Title:
Agreement on a Pledge (P.Fam.Tebt. 40 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 40, SB IV 7364, TM 10752)
Scope & Content:
Copy of the agreement between Philantinous alias Nilammon and his brother Lysimachus concerning Martilla, the female slave that Philantinous had pledged to a creditor (see Papyrus 1983). Philantinous agrees to produce a copy of the hypothecation to prove that he had pledged only one-third of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
173-174
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, incomplete, broken off at the bottom and left, and badly riddled with insect holes; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, portions of 20 lines survive, lacking the beginnings. The column breaks off at the bottom. Vertical folds are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1862. Papyrus 297

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 297
Title:
Extract from a Census Register (P.Lond. II 297a descr., TM 19979 - under publication), and Payment of Sales-Tax (P.Lond. II 297b, TM 19980)
Scope & Content:
Left fragment (P.Lond. II 297a descr., TM 19979): Extract from census registers of 89-90; under publication. Right fragment (P.Lond. II 297b, TM 19980): Ptollas, son of Heron, has paid the sales-tax on account of Statilius Apion and Valerius Apollonius, nomarchs, through two intermediaries, for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:

Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together housed in one glass case.

Left fragment (A): Broken off at the bottom, with holes and surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. 12 lines survive.

Right fragment (B): Broken off at the bottom, damaged by holes; with writing on both sides along the fibres. On the front, a strip of vertical fibres is visible in the upper poriotn of the sheet. The back was rotated 90 degrees and contains one line and a red stamp. The front bears the top of a column, of which 10 lines survive.

1863. Papyrus 126

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 126
Title:
‘Harris Homer Codex’ (P.Lond.Lit. 5 ro., TM 61277, LDAB 2419, MP3 634), Tryphon, Ars grammatica (P.Lond.Lit. 5 vo., P.Lond.Lit. 182 TM/LDAB 110341, MP3 1539), and Accounts (TM 91831)
Scope & Content:
Single-quire codex of 18 folios, containing Iliad II 101-493; III 1-491; IV 1-40 on the right-hand pages, with end-titles, additions and corrections, and numbers of lines to the page and of lines of the books at the bottom. Some of the pages originally left blank were reused to host Tryphon’s Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 3rd century
Extent:

9 sheets of a papyrus codex, dark-stained, housed in 9 glass frames named Papyrus 126(1), Papyrus 126(2), Papyrus 126(3), Papyrus 126(4), Papyrus 126(5), Papyrus 126(6), Papyrus 126(7), Papyrus 126(8), Papyrus 126(9). The sheets were folded in half to form two leaves, making a single-quire codex of 18 folios (36 pages); the holes of the binding are still visible. The codex belong to Turner’s group ‘aberrant I’ (‘much higher than broader’). The codex was at first only written on the right-hand pages, and later reused to host additional writing on the left-hand pages. Each of the right-hand pages bear one column of 48-54 lines, the column measuring 255 x 125 mm. Upside-down in relation to the first text on the right side, further texts were added on the left-hand pages of Papyrus 126(1) recto, Papyrus 126(2) recto, Papyrus 126(3) recto; 21 additional lines were written upside down in relation to the text on the right-hand page in Papyrus 126(5)verso.

1864. Papyrus 15(1-8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 15(1-8)
Title:
Documents from the Archive of the Royal Bank of Thebes (TM 3608; 3620; 3621; 3622, 3623)
Scope & Content:
Fragments 1-3 (UPZ II 218, TM 3620): Documents concerning the sale of a state-owned hill, purchased at an auction by Aelurus. The documentation includes instructions to the director of the bank, Heraclides. Dated 131-130 BC. Further portions are now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
131-130 BC
Extent:

Eight fragments, not all of which belong together, mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Fragments 1-3: Three fragments from the same sheet, further portions of which are now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1372; written on one side along the fibres.

Fragments 4-5: Two fragments from the same sheet, further portions of which are now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1375; written on one side along the fibres.

Fragment 6: Fragment of the same sheet as some fragments now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1376; written on one side along the fibres.

Fragment 7: Fragment of the same sheet as some fragments now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1377; written on one side along the fibres.

Fragment 8: Fragment of the same sheet as a papyrus now in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, inventoried as P. 1379; written on one side along the fibres; complete on the right and left.

1865. Papyrus 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 21
Title:
Petition for the Twins of the Serapeum (P.Lond. I 21, UPZ I 24, TM 3415, 58502)
Scope & Content:
Petition to the hypodioiketes Sarapion from Ptolemaeus son of Glaucias, ‘recluse’ (katochos) in the Serapeum, on behalf of Taous and Tages, twin sisters in the Serapeum. Ptolemaeus recalls the king’s decisions as regards the oil allowances still due to the twins, and asks Sarapion to order Mennid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
162 BC
Extent:
Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with minor damage along a vertical fold. The writing runs on one side and the back is blank. On the front, there are 30 lines running along the fibres; all margins are extant. Traces of erased lines are visible in the left margin. A sheet-join runs vertically along the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1866. Papyrus 616

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 616
Title:
Loan of Money (P.Dryton 19, P.Grenf. I 20, P.Lond. III 616 descr., TM 257)
Scope & Content:
Apollonia, wife of Dryton, who is acting as her guardian, lends 10,000 drachmas with interest included to Solon alias Sleis, Harmais and their mother. The loan is for a period of five months, starting on 7 November 127 BC. Penalty applies, should the debtors fail to repay it within the agreed ti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
7 November 127 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, broken off at the left and damaged along a horizontal fold. Writing is on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. On the recto, portions of 20 lines survive, lacking the beginnings. The upper margin measures 7 mm, the lower 26 mm, and the right is minimal. The back contains a two-line docket. The papyrus was rolled horizontally from bottom to top. It is housed in a glass case.

1867. Papyrus 750

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 750
Title:
Notification of Cession of Catoecic Land (P.Oxy. I 47, P.Lond. III 750 descr., TM 20709)
Scope & Content:
A letter from Achilleus, agent of Pyrrhus, superintendent of the katalochismoi (distribution of catoecic land) in Egypt, addressed to the agoranomoi (public notaries), who are being notified that a certain Didymus alias Amoitas had ceded to the priest Teos some land near the village of Senokomis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
83-88
Extent:

A papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres, broken off at the bottom but well preserved as to the rest. Number 47 in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in one glass case.

1868. Papyrus 1876

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1876
Title:
Correspondence on the Sale of Minimally Productive Land (SB V 7599, TM 14031)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the sale of five aruras of minimally productive land (hypologos) located in Tebtynis, which Cronion and Syrus, sons of Satyrus, intended to buy from the fiscus. Lines 1-7: Letter of Harpocration, royal scribe of the division of Polemon in the Arsinoite nome, to Eutychu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 May 95
Extent:
Square-shaped papyrus sheet, imperfect on the left and with insect-holes throughout, especially along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 34 lines; upper and lower margins survive. No margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1869. Papyrus 631

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 631
Title:
Fragment of a Letter (SB XX 14731, P.Grenf. I 35, C.Jud.Syr.Eg. 7, P.Lond. III 631 descr., TM 158)
Scope & Content:
Conclusion of a letter with reference to the delivery of the monthly amount of grain assigned to the senders. The names of the correspondents are lost; the senders are writing from Ptolemais.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 September 105 BC
Extent:

Lower portion of a papyrus sheet of coarse quality, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text breaks off at the top; 9 lines survive, the last of which is indented. The right margin is minimal and irregular, the lower margin is extant, and the left margin is partly preserved. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom at c. 25 mm from the right edge. Vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1870. Papyrus 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 19
Title:
Official Letter concerning the Twin Sisters in the Serapeum at Memphis (P.Lond. I 19, UPZ I 38, TM 3429)
Scope & Content:
Official letter of the epimeletes Mennides to the hypodioiketes Sarapion concerning his inquiry on the allowances in oil due to the twin sisters of the Serapeum, Tages (Taues) and Taous, for the years 18 and 19, in the reign of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. Mennides has investigated the matter and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
21 February 161 BC
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with writing on both sides. On the front, there are 18 lines running along the fibres, complete; margins are extant; on the back, there is one line written across the fibres. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening for the text on the back.

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