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1131. Papyrus 1551

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1551
Title:
Leases of Land (P.Lond V 1692, TM 19709-19710)
Scope & Content:
Two leases between Flavius Dioscorus, son of Apollos, and the shepherd Aurelius Georgius, son of Psais. Column 1: Georgius acknowledges that he has leased some land from Dioscorus for one year. With subscriptions of the lessee (written by someone else as he is illiterate), of a witness and of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
555-556
Extent:
Medium-to-dark brown papyrus, damaged along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres. The back is blank. On the front, there are two columns of 24 and 26 lines respectively. Upper and lower margins are extant, the left margin partly survives. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1132. Papyrus 1620

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1620
Title:
Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1693, TM 19711)
Scope & Content:
Conclusion of a lease of land at a rent of two artabas of wheat and two of barley per arura; the lessee is Aurelius Victor, son of Hermauos, and the name of the lessor is lost. With subscription of Victor at the end written by Flavius Theotecnus and endorsement on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
523-524 (?)
Extent:
Lower portion of a light-medium brown papyrus sheet, slightly damage on the left (front), otherwise well preserved; written on both sides. On the front there are 19 lines from the foot of a column, running long the fibres; side and lower margins are lost. On the back, there are traces of one one line written along the fibres at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1133. Papyrus 1634(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1634(A-B)
Title:
Tax-Receipts (P.Lond. V 1755-1756, TM 19753, 19754)
Scope & Content:
Left papyrus (A) (P.Lond. V 1755, TM 19753): Receipt for tax-payments in kind made by four individuals for the third indiction; written by Paulus, tax official (diastoleus). Dated to 584-585. Right papyrus (B) (P.Lond. V 1756, TM 19754): Receipt for tax-payments in kind made by the same individ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
584-586
Extent:

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

Left papyrus (A): Medium-to dark-brown papyrus sheet, complete but imperfect along part of the right edge; written on one side along the fibres; the front bears 11 lines, occupying slightly more than half of the sheet. Margins survive, the lower being ample and the right being imperfect at the top.

Right papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with some surface damage; written on both sides. On the front, there are the beginnings of 10 lines written along the fibres, with traces of another line at the bottom. The left margin is extant. On the back, there is a portion of one line written along the fibres.

1134. Papyrus 1644

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1644
Title:
Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1689, TM 19706)
Scope & Content:
Lease of land located in Phthla, waterless, the lessor being Flavius Panolbius, and the lessee Aurelius Isac. The rent is to be paid in kind. With subscription of Isac written by Thomas as he was illiterate, and with notarial subscription at the end.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13 Jun 0527
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, dark brown, broken off to the left; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 25 lines lacking the beginnings; upper, right and lower margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1135. Papyrus 2217

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2217
Title:
Petition to a Bishop (SB IV 7449, TM 35117)
Scope & Content:
Aurelia Nonna petitions the bishop of the Oxyrhynchus Theodorus, accusing Alypius, a monk and her nephew, of trying to give Nonna’s daughter in marriage to a relative. As the daughter was refusing, the monk beat Nonna and tore her clothes. She now asks that Alypius be summoned; Nonna will accept ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of 5th century
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, riddled with small insect-holes and with damage throughout; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 14 lines running along the fibres. All margins are extant; folding lines are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1136. Papyrus 2310

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2310
Title:
Petition to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2038, TM 1600)
Scope & Content:
Petition to Zenon from Lysimachus and Paesis, two potters, who complain that they have had no work for four days, but still had to pay the wages to the workmen they had hired. The loss they incurred amounts to thirty jars. They now ask Zenon to order that their wages be paid punctually.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete but with insect-holes regularly distributed along the right edge; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 29 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant. A sheet-join is visible along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1137. Papyrus 2483

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2483
Title:
Order for Payment (P.Oxy. XIV 1753, TM 22004)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Incomplete lines from documents in shorthand. Verso: An order from Limenius to the assistant Athanasius to make some money-payments to Bassus for the price of some goods, such as oil and honey.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1 July 390
Extent:

A papyrus fragment, written on both sides along the fibres; on the recto there are traces of 9 lines and, after some blank space, 5 other lines; on the back the text is complete at the top, left and bottom, but the ends of lines are lost. Housed in a glass case.

1138. Papyrus 3054

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 3054
Title:
Cancellation of Loan (P.Oxy. XXVII 2471, TM 17006)
Scope & Content:
A document addressed to the archidikastes (chief judge) from two brothers, Isidorus and Demetrius, both Roman citizens and the latter being a priest and gymnasiarch, concerning the repayment of a loan from a certain Chaeremon. Chaeremon had received the loan through the bank of Narcissus and rep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c. 50
Extent:

A fragment from a papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres, broken at the bottom and lacking approximately 15 letters on the left-hand side. Housed in one glass case.

1139. Papyrus 1183

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1183
Title:
Collection of Barbaric Customs (P.Oxy. II 218, P.Lond.Lit. 113, TM 64085, LDAB 5303, MP3 2184)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a roll containing a work in prose, with paradoxographical anecdotes on barbarian customs concerning offences and punishment, and the rituals for the death of a priest of Ares; quoting the authors Zopyrus, Clitarchus, and Archelaus.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
Six fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with surface damage, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The fragments have been named A-E in the frame: fragment A, the largest, is made of two fragments and bears remains of three columns, the intercolumn and the upper margin; the first and last columns are poorly preserved; the column width is 62 mm. Fragment C continues the second column of A; fragment E contains three lines from the foot of a column, with the lower margin. The other fragments preserve parts of few lines and remain unplaced. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1140. Papyrus 118

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 118
Title:
Scope & Content:
Pap. CXVIII. FOUR of the Herculanean rolls, three of which bear the numbers 1120, 1125, 1464, presented by the Neapolitan Government to George, Prince of Wales, as above. They are in the state in which they were found, being charred, hardened, and distorted by the action of fire; measuring from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

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