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Add MS 38895 A
- Record Id:
- 032-002058259
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002058259
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x0002d1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165149236.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38895 A
- Title:
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Sale of a Vineyard (Jur.Pap. 36, TM 70352, TM 97889)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto:
The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Gathakes from the brothers Barakes and Sobenes. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to November 88 BCE if the date (month Apellaios year 225) is a Seleucid year; if an Arsacid year, 24 BCE.
Upper part: scriptura interior. This part of the document was folded and sealed.
Lower part: scriptura exterior; this part of the document remained unsealed so it could be consulted by the parties.
Verso: 5 lines written in Parthian containing a summary of the text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002058259", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 38895 A: Sale of a Vineyard (Jur.Pap. 36, TM 70352, TM 97889)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002058259
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002058259
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment sheet, complete, but damaged by holes of varying size and little surface damage throughout; written on both sides, in Greek on the recto and in Parthian on the verso. The recto bears 64 lines; all margins are extant, with upper and side margins being minimal. On the back there are modern annotations, viz. the inventory number and the British Museum stamp in red. The sheet is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165149236.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Parthian - Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0088
- End Date:
- -0024
- Date Range:
- 88 BC or 24 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 250 x 150 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 205 mm.
Script: Recto: Greek text. Small module, uniform ductus, inhomogeneous in the shape of the letters and deprived of a decided orientation in calligraphic or cursive sense. Verso: Parthian text: Using Parthian alphabet.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Iran.
Provenance: Cave of Kūh-e Sālān, near Šār-e Owrāmān (Avroman), in the Iranian Kurdistan, ancient Media Atropatene. Found with Add MS 38895 B and Or. 8115 about 1909. Taken to London by Dr. Sa'id Khan. The documents were sold at Sotheby's in 1913.
- Former External References:
- Jur.Pap. 36
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), pp. 330-331.
E. H. Minns, 'Parchments of the Parthian Period from Avroman in Kurdistan', The Journal of Hellenic Studies 35 (1915), pp. 22–65.
H. S. Nyberg, 'The Pahlavi Documents from Avroman', Le Monde Oriental 17 (1923), pp. 209-210.
C. J. Edmons, 'The Place Names of the Avroman Parchments', Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies 14 (1952), pp. 478-482.
D. N. MacKenzie, 'Avroman Documents', Encyclopœdia Iranica 3 (1987), p. 111.
E. Crisci, Scrivere greco fuori d'Egitto (Firenze: 1996), pp. 158-160 (tab. CXVII).
F. Canali de Rossi, Iscrizioni dello Estremo Oriente Greco (Bonn: Habelt 2004), pp. 265-267.
R. Fowler, '‘Most Fortunate Roots’: Tradition and Legitimacy in Parthian Royal Ideology', in O. Hekster and R. Fowler (eds.), Imaginary Kings: Royal Images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome (Stuttgart: Steiner 2005), pp. 125-155.
L. Thommen, 'Griechisches Pergament aus Avroman, Nr. I', in: U. Hackl, B. Jacobs, and D. Weber, (eds.), Quellen zur Geschichte des Partherreiches: Textsammlung mit Übersetzungen und Kommentaren (Göttingen; Oakville, CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010), Bd. 2, pp. 467-472.
R. S. Bagnall, Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (Berkely-Los Angeles-London 2011), pp. 109-110.
E. Dąbrowa, 'Greek: A Language of the Parthian Empire', in E. Dąbrowa (ed.) Studia Graeco-Parthica. Political and Cultural Relations between Greeks and Parthians (Wiesbaden 2011, Philippika, 49), pp. 153-163.
M. R. Shayegan, M. Rahim, Arsacids and Sasanians: Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2011), pp. 25-26.
U. Yiftach‐Firanko, ‘Doppelurkunde’, in R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine and S. R. Huebner (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012).
D. T. Potts, 'The Sale and Lease of Vineyards in Media Atropatene', in P. S. Avetisyan, Y. H. Grekyan (eds.), Bridging Times and Spaces. Festschrift in Honour of Gregory E. Areshian in Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Oxford: Archaeopress 2017), pp. 349-356.
A. Luther, 'Zu den Dokumenten aus Avroman', Gymnasium 125 (2018), pp. 155-178.
Metadata provided by "Linguistic and Cultural Relationship between Iran and the Classical World during the Parthian Period", Research project (Spanish National Plan), ref. FFI2017-82143-P.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)