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1441. Papyrus 1794

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1794
Title:
Acknowledgement of Debt (P.Lond. V 1721, TM 19736)
Scope & Content:
A person, whose name is lost due the fragmentation of the papyrus, records a half-solidus increase in his pre-existing debt to someone else, and indicates his readiness to pay it by the month Payni. Since he describes it as interest, perhaps it is in lieu of an interest payment which he failed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
542-543
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at top and bottom, margins preserved at left and right; 12 lines on recto, written along the fibres. Verso blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1442. Papyrus 1795

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1795
Title:
Contract for Sale (P.Lond. V 1734, TM 36930)
Scope & Content:
Taeit sells a living room for three solidi (line 6) and her share of common property (lines 14-16) to a man whose name is lost. A strip containing an endorsement on its verso was erroneously published as the protocol of this document, with which it was framed, but it is actually the protocol of P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
525-575
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 31 lines on recto, written across the fibres, verso blank; housed in a glass frame.1 papyrus fragment framed with this document does not belong to the text, but to a papyrus in Munich, cf. P.Münch. 9.

1443. Papyrus 1796

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1796
Title:
Will (P.Lond. V 1727, TM 19741)
Scope & Content:
Patermouthis and Kako (here spelled Tkako) draw up their will, bequething all the property of the one who dies first to the survivor, and upon the death of the survivor, to their common children in equal shares. The survivor is to enjoy the income and must settle the debts of the deceased. Any on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
12 March 584
Extent:
Papyrus roll, complete, all margins preserved, upper margin damaged; 73 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso, written along the fibres; mounted in a glass frame.

1444. Papyrus 1797

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1797
Title:
Contract of Sale (P.Lond. V 1724, TM 19740)
Scope & Content:
The sisters Tsone and Tsere sell their one-third share of the (inherited?) house of their great-grandfather to the couple Patermouthis and Kako for 10 gold solidi. Their share consists of a three-room apartment, namely, a room on the first floor, a living room on the second floor, and a roof-terr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
578-582
Extent:
Papyrus roll, incomplete, broken off at top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 88 lines on recto, written across the fibres, verso blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1445. Papyrus 1798

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1798
Title:
Contract of Sale (P.Lond. V 1733, TM 19748)
Scope & Content:
Tapia sells two of the same shares of rooms she had sold almost nine years earlier to her daughter, Kako, and to Kako's husband, Patermouthis (P.Munch. 9.30-35). These are a half-share in a second-floor living room (lines 17-18) and a quarter-share of a fourth-floor roof terrace (lines 19-21). T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6 March 594
Extent:
Papyrus roll, incomplete, broken off at top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 81 lines on recto, written across the fibres, verso blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1446. Papyrus 1799

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1799
Title:
Contract for Loan of Money - Acknowledgement of Debt (P.Lond. V 1725, TM 15312)
Scope & Content:
Aurelius Iakob, son of Konstantios and Maria, acknowledges to Aurelia Maria, daughter of Allamon and Tapia, that he has received three solidi of gold as a marriage gift, which he will give back on demand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6 March 580
Extent:
Papyrus fragment, broken off at bottom, margins preserved at left, top and right; 21 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres; mounted in a glass frame.The fragment joins to P.Münch. I 3.

1447. Papyrus 1800

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1800
Title:
Resolution of a Dispute over a Payment (P.Lond. V 1731, TM 19746)
Scope & Content:
Tsone's parents divorced during her childhood. Although her father, Menas, had given her mother, Tapia, four solidi for her maintenance, Tapia "cast her out" upon her remarriage and Tsone was, in fact, supported by her father. He would have died while she was yet a minor and, apparently lacking o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
20 September 585
Extent:
Papyrus, complete, all margins preserved; 49 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 2 lines on verso, written along the fibres. Housed in a glass frame.

1448. Papyrus 1801

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1801
Title:
Contract for Loan of Money, Acknowledgement of Debt (P.Lond. V 1723, TM 19739)
Scope & Content:
‘Mortgage note’ for an antichretic loan: Apa Dios borrows 4 solidi (3 from an unknown man and 1 from a woman named Anastasia, perhaps the man's wife) and pledges a quarter-share of an inherited house as security. He grants the debtor ‘authority and ownership and sway’ over, and use of the proper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
7 September 577
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, complete, all margins preserved; 29 lines on recto, written along the fibres. Verso blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1449. Papyrus 1802

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1802
Title:
Sale of a House (P.Lond. V 1722, TM 19738)
Scope & Content:
The boatman Iakob and his wife Tsendia sell to the drummer Iakobos for eighteen solidi a three-story house with two rooms on each floor, located in the southern part of the fortress on the Street of the Camp. With subscriptions at the end.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
7-15 March 530
Extent:
Papyrus roll, complete, all margins preserved; 60 lines on recto, written across the fibers. Verso blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1450. Papyrus 1803

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1803
Title:
Sale of a Boat (P.Lond. V 1726, TM 15313), and Contract of Sale (P.Lond. V 1735, TM 36931)
Scope & Content:
Papyrus 1803 A (TM 15313): The recruit Patermouthis, perhaps upon his joining the regiment of Syene, sells a large boat which he had bought from Kyros of Upper Apollonopolis for 19 2/3 solidi, roughly the price of a three-story house. All formulas of this sale are identical with those of the hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of 6th century
Extent:
Papyrus fragments from two documents written on one side across the fibres, with the back being blank; incomplete, broken at top and bottom, left and right margins preserved. On the front, there are 13 lines, a joining fragment is P.Münch. I 4 & 5 Verso; and 29 lines, possibly belonging to a fragment published in P.Lond. V 1851. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

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