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1191. 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.

1192. 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.

1193. 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.

1194. 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.

1195. 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.

1196. Papyrus 1792

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1792
Title:
Settlement of a Dispute (P.Lond. V 1728, TM 19742)
Scope & Content:
Settlement relating to the estate of Iakobos, between Ioannes and Kako, both children of Iakobos; this document follows P. Münch. 7 in time and refers to the securities and boat mentioned there and possibly to the same house (lines 11-12; P. Münch. 7.20-40 and 47-51). Lacunae hinder full understa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8 March 584
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at left, margins preserved at top, right and bottom; 29 lines on recto, written along the fibres, verso blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1197. Papyrus 1793

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1793
Title:
Receipt (P.Lond. V 1720, TM 19735), and Statement as to Pledged Articles (Crum ST 439, TM 47601)
Scope & Content:
The recto, in Greek, contains a receipt for the full price of an earring deposited as security for a debt. Dated: 3 February 549. Nonna had borrowed an unknown amount of money from Maria and had left a pair of earrings with her as security. She now sells them to Maria for 8 solidi in cash. The r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
Papyrus sheet of light colour, written on both sides, folded from right to left. On recto, written along the fibres in Greek. 1 column of text, 18 lines. On the verso written against the fibres in Coptic. The surface of the papyrus on verso side is abraded and damaged at the vertical foldlines and a hole interrupts the lower centre; 1 column of text; the Coptic text has 15 lines.

1198. 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.

1199. 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.

1200. 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.

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