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71. Papyrus 2148

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2148
Title:
Account (SB XVIII 13913, TM 32991)
Scope & Content:
Account addressed to a builder (oikodomos) from Horus recording money payments made by various individuals for various services.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
mid 4th century
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete although imperfect at the bottom left; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 12 lines written along the fibres; margins are extant, the lower being ample. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

72. Papyrus 2511

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2511
Title:
Account (P.Diog. 52, TM 26626)
Scope & Content:
Account, perhaps from the archive of Diogenes, with sums stated in drachmas. Among the entries are the price for three fleeces, and the payment for a rural guard (agrophylax). The sums are multiple of four drachmas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
132-248
Extent:

Dark-brown papyrus sheet in poor condition, with holes and heavy abrasion; broken off at the bottom; the back lacks part of the vertical fibres. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. On the front there are traces of one column. The papyrus is housed in one glass frame.

73. Papyrus 1647

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1647
Title:
Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. V 1699, TM 19716)
Scope & Content:
Aurelius Besarion acknowledges a loan of forty artabas of wheat incurred by his father and by his uncle, and of six additional artabas, for a total of forty-six artabas. The name of the creditor is mutilated; he was an oil-manufacturer, son of Musaeus. With endorsement on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11 August 520
Extent:
Fragmentary papyrus sheet, darker by patches in the left-hand portion, abraded throughout, with few insect holes in places; broken off at the bottom, but complete at the top and sides. Writing runs on both sides along the fibres; the front bears 15 lines; traces of another line at the bottom are visible. Upper and side margins are extant and minimal. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom at c. 55 mm from the right edge. On the back, there is one line at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

74. Papyrus 1660

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1660
Title:
Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. V 1700, TM 36924)
Scope & Content:
Aurelius Victor, vine-dresser, acknowledges a debt (perhaps a sale on credit) from a creditor whose name is damaged; he will be subject to a fine in money should he fail to settle the debt. With his subscription written by the same hand as the body of the document, and of Aurelius Pauos, who is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
Papyrus slip, broken off to the left, rubbed throughout and with few insect holes in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are eleven lines against the fibres, all lacking the beginnings; upper, right and lower margins survive. The back bears one line running along the fibres in the upper portion of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

75. Papyrus 3089

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 3089
Title:
Loan agreement, and unrelated fragment
Scope & Content:
1+2+4+5: Loan agreement for 300 bronze drachmas, concluded in Lycopolis between the cavalry settler Neilos, son of Apollonios (lender) and Taseis daughter of Thotsytes (borrower), with Horos, son of Horos acting as guardian, followed by a list of six witnesses. Reserved for publication. 3: Unid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century BC
Extent:

Five papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame:

1+2+4+5: Four fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (24+4 lines along the fibres on recto, 4 lines against the fibres on verso), with lower, left and right margin (recto) partly extant.

3: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with left margin partly extant.

76. Papyrus 1869

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1869
Title:
Requisitions of Fodder (AfP 65 (2019), pp. 333-337, TM 837694)
Scope & Content:
List of requisitions of fodder from various Antinoite villages for the army or the administration; with heading stating the purpose and names of sixteen villages; the quantities of fodder may have followed; with check marks opposite most entries. On the back there are few letters of a column, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
mid 7th century
Extent:

Papyrus fragment, broken off at the bottom and right and with some damage in the preserved portion; writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. On the front there are the beginnings of 19 lines; the left margin is extant and a sheet-join runs along the height of the papyrus at c. 20 mm from the left-hand edge. The back bears traces of a column, of which 1-4 letters survive; the text is written upside down in relation to the text on the front; the left margin is ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

77. Papyrus 189

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 189
Title:
List of Names (P.Lond. II 189, TM 28019)
Scope & Content:
List of names divided into groups, some of which with headings, with totals of men drawn beneath. One group has a cancelled title. Presumably the document is a list of men available for service rather than a roster of incumbents. At least four people may be identified with the men mentioned in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 2nd century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and well preserved, although the first column lacks its left-hand side; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

78. Papyrus 202

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 202
Title:
List of Loans (P.Lond. II 202, TM 19967)
Scope & Content:
Part of an account recording loans in money with interests at three rates (viz. 1 drachma, 1 drachma and 3 obols, 1 drachma and 5 obols).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
98-117
Extent:

Papyrus fragment broken off at the bottom and left; dark-stained, with few wormholes. It preserves the ends of 16 lines of varying length, written along the fibres. The back is blank. The upper margin is preserved in the surviving portion; no margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

79. Papyrus 874

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 874
Title:
Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. III 874, TM 22700)
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgment of a debt of three solidi by two brothers to a steward (pronoetes) of the Hermopolite episcopal church. The debt concerns a certain Herodes, possibly a tenant or labourer on the church's estate. The subscription of the notary Phoebammon is at the end.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
19 December 554
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus, complete at the top, right and foot; abraded in places; written on one side along the fibres; the front bears 25 lines, all lacking the beginnings except for the last 6 lines. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

80. Papyrus 1409

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1409
Title:
Register of Taxes (P.Lond. IV 1414, TM 39747)
Scope & Content:
Register of taxes paid in money and kind, arranged on the basis of places: after the epoikia, monasteries are also mentioned. Taxes are both ordinary and extraordinary. Fol. 1r.-1v.: Small piece with no writing; Fol. 2r.: Taxes from Aphrodito: single taxes with deductions, quota and balance; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:

Book of 14 wide folios, consisting of several fragments of various sizes; none of them is complete, and of the first only a small fragment with no writing survives. Folios 3 to 14 were mounted in separate glass frames; the fragments of folios 1 and 2 were framed together. The unwritten fragment of folio 1 is attached to the left-hand side of the larger fragment of folio 2; two additional fragments of folio 2 were acquired in 1926. Corrections are added in the interlinear space, and sometimes old figures are also underlined.

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