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231. 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.

232. Papyrus 263

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 263
Title:
Scope & Content:
Pap. CCLXIII. ACCOUNTS of expenditure of money during part of the month Phaophi in the 4th year of the emperor Tiberius Cæsar Augustus [= October, A.D. 17]. The beginning and end of the roll are lost, and both top and bottom have suffered by rubbing. There are remains of 50 columns, the last six...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 0017
Extent:
1 item

233. 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.

234. 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.

235. 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.

236. Papyrus 267

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 267
Title:
Register of Land (P.Lond. II 267, TM 11662) and Demotic Text (P.Lond. II 267 vo. descr., TM 105767)
Scope & Content:
Recto (TM 11662): Register of land for taxation arranged in twenty columns, not fully preserved, with traces of an additional one. For each entry geographical details in relation to the field described before are provided; then is given its extent and rate of taxation, followed by names of pers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
114 (after 2 April)
Extent:

Two large fragments of a papyrus roll, written on both sides, in Greek on the recto and in Demotic on the verso; damaged by worm holes and lacking both beginning and end; housed in two glass frames.

237. Papyrus 268

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 268
Title:
Scope & Content:
Pap. CCLXVIII. TAX-REGISTER or accompt, consisting of names of individuals followed by sums of money. Imperfect at beginning and end, but portions of 12 unusually tall columns remain, most of them nearly complete, though somewhat damaged by worms. 1st or early 2nd cent. 15 1/2 in. x 3 ft. 71 i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st century-Early 2nd century
Extent:
1 item

238. Papyrus 269

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 269
Title:
Scope & Content:
Pap. CCLXIX. ACCOMPTS, imperfect and much mutilated, written in a thin, straggling cursive hand. 1st cent. 11 in. x 3 ft. 1 in. The verso is occupied by demotic writing in fair condition, and there is a little similar writing on the recto. Arsinoë, Egyptian Nome: Papyri relating to places in: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:
1 item

239. Papyrus 270

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 270
Title:
Scope & Content:
Pap. CCLXX. FRAGMENT Of an accompt relating to corn, much mutilated, written in a small cursive hand. 1st or 2nd cent. 11 in. x 2 ft. 7 in. The verso is occupied by demotic writing. Arsinoë, Egyptian Nome: Papyri relating to places in: 1st-7th centt.: Gr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st century-2nd century
Extent:
1 item

240. Papyrus 271

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 271
Title:
Homer, Odyssey III (P.Lond.Lit. 30, TM 60262, LDAB 1382, MP3 1039)
Scope & Content:
The fragments contain lines from Homer’s Odyssey III with scholia from Ammonius, Apion, Zenodotus, Herodorus or Erotianus. Papyrus 271(1) Left fragment, Column 1: Odyssey III 283-293, with scholia; Left fragment, Column 2: Odyssey III 319-327, with scholia; Right fragment: Odyssey III 387-40...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:
Fragments from a light-coloured papyrus roll of high quality, written on one side along the fibres; each column would have contained between 34 and 36 lines measuring 20.5 x 16.7 cm; the upper margin survives to 6 cm in Papyrus 271 (1), the lower margin survives to 7 cm in Papyrus 271(2). The roll would have been approximately 7 m long if it contained the first three books of the Odyssey, as the end-title suggests. Two hands are present. Mounted on cardboard in two glass cases. Further fragments from the same papyrus roll have been identified in the Vienna Collection and published as P.Sijp. 3.

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