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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Place Krokodilopolis/Ptolemais Euergetis/Arsinoe(Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt

61. Papyrus 1177

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1177
Title:
Accounts on the Water Supply of a Metropolis (SB XXVI 16652, TM 11763) and Other Accounts (P.Lond. III 1177v. descr., TM 29258)
Scope & Content:
Recto Papyrus 1177(1), Columns 1-2 (column 1 only having a few traces): Remains of an account with sums stated in drachmas, with the total at the end and rough notes in a different hand. Papyrus 1177(1), Column 3: Further accounts in a fast cursive hand, also found throughout the recto, in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
113
Extent:

Sheets from a papyrus roll, overall well preserved with the exception of the end, which is damaged; written on both sides and preserving several columns. Housed in three glass frames.

62. Papyrus 1263

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1263
Title:
List of Nomination to Liturgies and Account (SB XX 14584, TM 14889, 133493)
Scope & Content:
Recto (TM 14889): Fragment of a list of candidates eligible for a number of public offices in Arsinoe, recording their names and amount of property. Verso (TM 133493): Money account, dated 253, unpublished. Another fragment from the same papyrus is now in Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, inventori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus roll, of lighter colour in places, with a few insect-holes in places; written on both sides; the front bears parts of 2 columns written along the fibres; the back was reused and preserves two columns written across the fibres. Another fragment is now in Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, inventoried as G 32016. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

63. Papyrus 1876

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1876
Title:
Correspondence on the Sale of Minimally Productive Land (SB V 7599, TM 14031)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the sale of five aruras of minimally productive land (hypologos) located in Tebtynis, which Cronion and Syrus, sons of Satyrus, intended to buy from the fiscus. Lines 1-7: Letter of Harpocration, royal scribe of the division of Polemon in the Arsinoite nome, to Eutychu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 May 95
Extent:
Square-shaped papyrus sheet, imperfect on the left and with insect-holes throughout, especially along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 34 lines; upper and lower margins survive. No margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

64. Papyrus 1897

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1897
Title:
Official Document (SB IV 7379, TM 14015)
Scope & Content:
Official document concerned with the distraint of landed property due to unpaid debt. Detailed descriptions of the plots of land are provided. With official docket in the upper margin and red stamps on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
26 April 177
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, complete on all the other sides; on the front, there are forty-two lines written across the fibres, two of which were added in the upper margin; upper and lower margins are extant, no margin was left to the right; the back bears two stamp impressions in red ink. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

65. Papyrus 1947(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1947(A-B)
Title:
Loan of Money (P.Fam.Tebt. 6 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 6, TM 10763) and Official Document
Scope & Content:
Left papyrus (A) (Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 6, TM 10763): Copy of a loan of 112 silver drachmas, given from Lysimachus, son of Didymus, to Isidora, daughter of Lysimachus, acting with her son as a guardian, and her son Cronius; the loan is to be repaid with interest in the month of Epeiph. Dated to 98-99...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Two fragmentary papyrus sheets that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Left papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, riddled with insect holes, lacking the left-hand side and imperfect at the top, complete on the right and at the bottom; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears 21 lines lacking the beginnings; the lower margin is extant; no margin was left to the right. Folding lines are still visible.

Right papyrus (B): Two non-contiguous fragments from a medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with insect holes in places; the front bears 9 lines lacking their middle portion; upper and left margins are extant, no margin was left to the right. The back contains remains of the official red stamp.

66. Papyrus 1959

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1959
Title:
Offer to Lease (P.Fam.Tebt. 47 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 47, TM 10756)
Scope & Content:
Herakleos son of Maximus, of Arsinoe, offers to lease from Philantinous alias Herodes and Tanouphis and Didyme, assisted by him, three aruras of land located near the village of Theogonis for a period of four years. The rent is to be paid in kind. The land can be sown with any crop but safflower....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
14 August 195
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, medium-dark brown, with surface damage and breaks along the vertical folds on the left; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 34 lines, complete; blank space was left between lines 30 and 31, and 31 and 32. Lines 2-3, 31, 34 are indented. Margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

67. Papyrus 1976

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1976
Title:
Sale of a House and Annexed Documents (SB XXII 15472, TM 43198)
Scope & Content:
'Pasted roll' (tomos synkollesimos), gathering three documents pertaining to the sale of a house and appurtenances located in Soknopaiou Nesos, bought at the price of 600 silver drachmas. The seller is Taharpagathes, daughter of Tesenouphis, priestess of Soknopaiou Nesos, acting with her son as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
20 November 134
Extent:
‘Pasted roll’ (tomos synkollesimos), made of three papyrus sheets pasted together, with detached scrap on the left; the writing runs on one side. On the front, there are 3 columns of varying length written along the fibres; the first lacks the left-hand side, the others are complete. Two sheet-joins run vertically, and folding lines are still visible. The back bears no writing, but there are traces of red ink. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

68. Papyrus 1982

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1982
Title:
Sale of a House (SB X 10571, TM 14329)
Scope & Content:
Contract drawn up in Ptolemais Euergetis for the sale of a house bought by Pacysis, a minor with Tanephremmis, his paternal grandmother, as a guardian, from his mother Taharpagathes, daughter of Herieus, with her husband Pacysis son of Satabous as a guardian. Taharpagathes had inherited the house...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8 August 194
Extent:
Medium-dark brown papyrus, imperfect on the left, complete at the top, bottom and right; with insect-holes and surface damage in places. The front bears 31 lines running along the fibres; upper and lower margins are extant. No margin was left to the right. The back bears two stamp-impressions in red ink, appearing to be plain disks with no writing. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

69. Papyrus 2411

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2411
Title:
Poll-Tax Receipt (TM 957084)
Scope & Content:
Receipt for the payment of eight silver drachmas and four bronze obols on account of the poll-tax (laographia) issued to Dioscorus son of Dioscorus by Souchion, tax collector of the quarter of the Bithynians, in Arsinoe.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
24 October 136
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus sheet, square-shaped, complete and well preserved, only displaying a few insect-holes in places. A crease runs vertically down the centre. The writing runs on one side along the fibres, and the back is blank. The front bears 8 lines, complete. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

70. Papyrus 2412

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2412
Title:
Poll-Tax Receipt (TM 957085)
Scope & Content:
Receipt for the payment of eight silver drachmas and four bronze obols on account of the poll-tax (laographia) issued to Horion, son of Dioscorus, by Souchion, tax collector of the quarter of the Bithynians, in Arsinoe.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
136-137
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus sheet, with insect-holes and abrasion in places, and lacking the right-hand edge. The writing runs on one side along the fibres, and the back is blank. The front bears 7 lines, complete. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.