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1921. Papyrus 113 (4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 113 (4)
Title:
Lease of Land (P.Lond. I 113.4 + BL I 236, TM 41021)
Scope & Content:
Contract for lease of around 30 arouras of land in the village of Souris, dated to 8 June 595 and similar to 113(3). The lessees are Aurelius Ioannes and Aurelius Castous, both farmers, and the lessor is Phoebammon, a notary (tabularius) in Arsinoe. The landowner will receive three-fourths of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8 June 595
Extent:

Fragments from a papyrus roll, written on both sides; the fragments preserving lines 10-13 and the concluding lines of the recto were formerly in the Bodleian Library.

1922. Papyrus 663

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 663
Title:
Repayment of a Loan (P.Grenf. II 30, P.Lond. III 663 descr., TM 74)
Scope & Content:
Document drawn up in the notarial office in Pathyris before Hermias, recording the repayment of a loan of two talents from Peteharsemtheus and his three brothers to another Peteharsemtheus, son of Almaphis, who had lent the money. With endorsement on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
10 December 102 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, complete, with few holes in the left portion, but well preserved as to the rest. The left edge is irregular. Writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The back bears two columns of 3 and 2 lines respectively, written in the upper half. On the front there is one column of 30 lines, the last of which is indented and separated by paragraphus and some blank space. All margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame

1923. Papyrus 764

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 764
Title:
Repayment of a Loan (P.Oxy. I 98, P.Lond. III 764 descr., TM 20757)
Scope & Content:
Receipt whereby Chaeremon, son of Theon, from Oxyrhynchus, acknowledges the payment of 168 drachmas from Archias, a freedman from Oxyrhynchus, through the bank of Heraclides in the Serapeum. This is the last instalment of a loan of 700 drachmas lent four years earlier. Dated in the 5th year of A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
141-142
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres, broken off at the bottom; ink is faded at the end of some lines; lines 3 and 16 are damaged. Mounted on cardboard and housed in one glass case. Number 98 in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy.

1924. Papyrus 2458

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2458
Title:
Petition to the Prefect by Aurelia Thaisous alias Lolliane (P.Oxy. XII 1467, TM 21868)
Scope & Content:
A petition to the prefect from a woman named Aurelia Thaisous alias Lolliane, who claims the right to be independent and act without a guardian in her legal transactions on the grounds of being the mother of three children (ius trium liberorum). She stresses to be literate, and requests that thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263
Extent:

A papyrus sheet, broken at the top and damaged by holes throughout. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text, arranged in one column, is incomplete, lacking a few lines at the beginning. The blank space at the bottom measures 82 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

1925. Papyrus 687

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 687
Title:
Third Will of Dryton (P.Dryton 3, P.Lond. III 687 descr., TM 268), Petition (P.Dryton 31, P.Lond. III 687 descr., TM 286), and Ptolemaic Fragments (P.Lond. III 687 descr., TM 280)
Scope & Content:
Upper left fragment (A) + Three lower fragments at the right (E) (P.Dryton 3, P.Lond. III 687 descr., TM 268): Fragments preserving the beginning and end of the first column of a copy of the second will of Dryton, drawn up in the office of the notary in Pathyris. Further portions of this papyrus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century BC
Extent:

Seven fragments of varying size, bearing writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Not all of them belong together; they are mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Upper left fragment (A): Fragment of the upper portion of the same papyrus as the three fragments inventoried as Papyrus 687E, Papyrus 640, and a papyrus of the Sorbonne (P.Bouriant 46). Papyrus 687A preserves the top of the first column, broken off at the bottom and sides, and contains parts of four lines. The upper margin measures 40 mm.

Upper fragment in the middle (B): Papyrus fragment broken off at the top and sides, part of the same sheet as Papyrus 686F, a papyrus in the John Rylands Library inventoried as no. 67, and a papyrus in Heidelberg, inventoried as 1301. Part of seven lines and of the lower margin survive. At the left, some horizontal fibres are missing.

Upper right fragment (C): Fragment of a papyrus sheet, damaged throughout, with some of the horizontal fibres missing; parts of 4 lines are preserved, with most of the fragment being blank.

Lower left fragment (D): Fragment of a sheet, containing the lower portion of a column, with ample lower margin and part of the left margin surviving. A strip of horizontal fibres is missing. Damage is located along the vertical folds.

Three lower fragments at the right (E): Three joining fragments from the same papyrus as Papyrus 687A, Papyrus 640 and a papyrus of the Sorbonne (P.Bouriant 46). The end of the first column is preserved in Papyrus 687E, with parts of two lines and traces of one above. The lower margin measures 30 mm.

1926. Papyrus 1653(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1653(A-B)
Title:
Tax Receipts (P.Lond. V 1747, TM 36932; P.Lond. V 1748, TM 38851), and List of Persons (P.Lond. V 1867 descr., TM 36979)
Scope & Content:
Upper papyrus (A) Recto (P.Lond. V 1747, TM 36932): Tax receipt issued for Pamounis, son of Onnophris, for a payment made on account of the poll-tax; the subscription of Victor is at the end. Verso (P.Lond. V 1867 descr., TM 36979): Coptic list of names, unpublished. Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century-7th century
Extent:

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

Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus sheet, written on both sides; one side bears 4 complete lines written across the fibres; margins are extant. On the other side, there are 12 lines written across the fibres.

Lower papyrus (B): Papyrus sheet, written on both sides; each side bears 4 lines written across the fibres.

1927. Papyrus 420

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 420
Title:
Petition from the Abinnaeus Archive (P.Abinn. 46, P.Lond. II 420 descr., SB VIII 9689, TM 10036)
Scope & Content:
End of a petition from Aurelius Theodorus, who complains about an act of violence, which left him with scars and ‘half-dead’. The perpetrators think that Theodorus has a debt with them, but he denies. The scribe’s name who wrote on behalf of Theodorus is not preserved.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
22 September 343
Extent:

Lower portion of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and left. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

1928. Papyrus 677

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 677
Title:
Cession of a Share of a Leasehold (P.Grenf. II 33, P.Lond. III 677 descr., TM 114)
Scope & Content:
Agreement drawn up before Hermias, agent of the notary Paniscus, whereby Psenenoupis cedes a share of temple land which he had leased from the priests for a period of ten years. He sublets it to Harsiesis, priest of Suchus and Aphrodite, for the last four years at the price of 2 talents and 3300...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4 November 100 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, complete, with few holes and some surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one wide column of 15 lines, the last of which is written in the right part of the sheet. All margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1929. Papyrus 770

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 770
Title:
Three Tax Receipts (P.Oxy. I 143, P.Lond. III 770 descr., Stud.Pal. III 287, TM 20782)
Scope & Content:
Three receipts for money taxes paid by Pamouthius, pronoetes (administrator) of the hamlet of Leon in the Oxyrhynchite nome, in the 13th indiction, signed by the banker Philoxenus. The receipts display the same phrasing and are written by the same hand; some blank space was left in between them....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
January-August 535
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with wormholes throughout; written on both sides and housed in a glass case. Number 143 in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy I.

1930. Papyrus 486

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 486
Title:
Miscellaneous Literary Texts (TM 60165, 61233, 62771, 62675)
Scope & Content:
Upper left papyrus (A) (P.Petr. I 3(1), P.Lond.Lit. 57, 71, TM 62675): Gnomic anthology with quotations arranged by topic, quoting Ps.-Epicharmus and Euripides. Assigned to the first three quarters of the 3rd century BC. Upper right papyrus (B) (P.Petr. I 3(2), P.Lond.Lit. 79, TM 62771): Fragme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC-2nd century BC
Extent:

Four papyrus fragments that do not belong together, extracted from mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.

Upper left papyrus (A): Upper portion of a papyrus, complete at the top, broken off on the other sides; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 9 lines; the upper margin is extant. The back is blank.

Upper right papyrus (B): Papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres and preserving the foot of a column, with the beginnings of 18 lines. The back is blank.

Lower left papyrus (C): Papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom. The back is blank.

Lower right papyrus (D): Light-brown papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of two adjacent columns of 20 and 19 lines respectively. The lower margin survives partly. The back is blank.

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