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1391. Papyrus 1782(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1782(A-B)
Title:
Petition (P.Lond. V 1911 descr., TM 33202), and Receipt for Rent (P.Lond. V 1785, TM 38862)
Scope & Content:
Upper papyrus (A) (P.Lond. V 1911 descr., TM 33202): Beginning of a petition of the early fourth century from Aurelia Sarra, of Herakleopolis, to Aurelius Dorotheus and Aurelius Turbon, exactores of the city. Details are lost. Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. V 1785, TM 38862): Seventh-century receip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th century-7th century
Extent:

Two papyrus sheets that do not belong together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Upper portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, with some surface damage; written on one side. The front bears 5 lines from the top of a column running along the fibres, with traces of a further line at the bottom. The back is blank.

Lower papyrus (B): Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with little damage along the right edge; written on one side. The front bears 6 lines running across the fibres, written in the upper half of the sheet; the lower half is blank. Margins are extant. The back is blank. Folding lines are still visible; there are traces of the original seal, which has not survived.

1392. Papyrus 1783

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1783
Title:
Letter (P.Lond. V 1685, TM 36920), and Account of Expenses (P.Lond. V 1672, TM 36917)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. V 1685, TM 36920): Letter from one official to another, with the order not to demand more than six solidi in the name of Eustochia, daughter of Ioannes, for public taxes. The address is on the back. Verso (P.Lond. V 1672, TM 36917): Account of expenses, including payments for a t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
Medium-to-dark-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with writing on both sides. On the front, there are 7 lines written across the fibres; all margins are extant. On the back, there are 12 lines written across the fibres, faded in places. The papyrus is housed in the same glass frame.

1393. Papyrus 1784

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1784
Title:
Tax Receipt (P.Lond. V 1665, TM 19681)
Scope & Content:
Receipt acknowledging the payment of 3 carats and 1/6 made by Apollos, son of Dioscorus, through Phoebammon on account of village taxes for the village of Phthla, issued by the pagarchs through their assistant Victor.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
557-558 (?)
Extent:
Two fragments of a papyrus slip, not contiguous, with a loss of at least 6 letters between the fragments; damaged at the top and sides and with surface damage; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears 3 lines written along the fibres, incomplete. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1394. Papyrus 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1785
Title:
Receipt for Repayment of Money (P.Lond. V 1717, TM 19733) and Metrological Tables and Problems (P.Lond. V 1718, TM 65048, LDAB 6289, MP3 354)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Receipt for the repayment of a debt of money, given by a woman whose name is lost, accompanied by two people, Calotychus, son of Stephanus, and Theodosia, daughter of Ioannes; with subscriptions at the end. The document was written in Antinoopolis. The fragments preserve the left-hand sid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half 6th century
Extent:

Three fragments of a papyrus roll of various sizes, housed in two glass frames; written on both sides and preserving further portions of the texts contained in Papyrus 1667.

- 1785 (1) Ro: the lower fragment, wrongly placed at the bottom, contains the beginning of the first six lines of the document; after one line in lacuna, the top fragment contains the beginning of the following 7 lines, with only a few traces for line 7;

- 1785 (2) Ro: beginning of the remaining lines of the document. The ending of the lines is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid strip of the papyrus is missing. The text on the recto is also broken at the top and bottom.

- 1785 (1) Vo: the fragment on the right-hand side, misplaced in the frame, contains lines 1-7 of column 1; the fragment on the left-hand side contains the endings of those lines of column 1 and the beginning of the first seven lines of column 2;

- 1785 (2) Vo: endings of the first lines of column 2 and the first lines of columns 3-6. The continuation of columns 1-4 is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid portions of the columns between Papyrus 1785 and 1667 are lost.

1395. Papyrus 1786

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1786
Title:
Scope & Content:
LEATHER BINDING of a papyrus codex, backed with papyrus containing traces of writing, apparently of the 7th cent. 6½ in.x 5 in. Bindings EGYPTIAN: Brown leather cover of papyrus codex: 7th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7th century
Extent:
1 item

1396. Papyrus 1787

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1787
Title:
Conveyance of Reversion of Property (P.Lond. V 1729, TM 19744)
Scope & Content:
The monk Ioannes bestows upon Patermouthis all his personal possessions (lines 40-42) as well as a hereditary house-share which has yet to be removed from the control of others (lines 32-33), presumably 'the sons of Kostantios' (lines 23-24). Isakios son of Kostantios was the husband of Tsone (P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
12 March 584
Extent:
Papyrus roll, complete, all margins are extant, 53 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on the verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.

1397. Papyrus 1788

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1788
Title:
Loan Contract (P.Lond. V 1736, TM 19749)
Scope & Content:
Patermouthis and Kako borrow from the boatman Ioannes four solidi repayable on demand at 8% per annum interest (1 solidus per year) and pledge all their property as guarantee of payment.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 February 611
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at the top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 34 lines on recto, written along the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres. Housed in a glass frame.

1398. Papyrus 1789

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1789
Title:
Loan Contract (P.Lond. V 1737, TM 19750)
Scope & Content:
Patermouthis acting alone borrows 3 and 1/3 solidi, repayable on demand at an interest of 2% per year, from the same Ioannes from whom he and Kako had borrowed 4 solidi two years earlier (P. Lond. V 1736). Kako's absence from this transaction may suggest her death or disability; it is some 35 yea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 February 611
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken at the top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 27 lines on recto, written along the fibres; 1 line on verso written along the fibres. Housed in a glass frame.

1399. Papyrus 1790

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1790
Title:
Cession (Transfer of House-Share) (P.Lond. V 1730, TM 19745)
Scope & Content:
Ioannes assigns to his sister Kako (here called Tkako) and her husband Patermuthis (here Patermuthios) his share of their grandmother Tlou's house (inherited from their recently deceased father Iakobos) in return for the couple's promise to fully maintain the aged woman. Any attempt to revoke the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
22 August 585
Extent:
Papyrus, complete, all margins preserved; 30 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.

1400. Papyrus 1791

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1791
Title:
Surety Bond (P.Lond. V 1732, TM 19747)
Scope & Content:
Iakob, an otherwise unknown boatman, guarantees to Patermouthis that two other persons will appear at an arbitration hearing before a judge and will accept his decision. He supports his guarantee with a pledge of three gold solidi. Presumably Patermouthis was a party in the arbitration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16 August 586
Extent:
Papyrus, complete, all margins preserved; 10 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.

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