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Record Id:

032-002169807

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002169807

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x00016a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 56489

Title:

Receipt for payment (UPZ II 155, SB I 3937, TM 3556)

Scope & Content:

This manuscript records the third in a series of payments to the royal fisc by the brothers Teos and Zminis (UPZ 2 153-4 record the first two, also on wooden tablets). The brothers had purchased an ibiotapheion, a priestly office, and half of a plot of land designated as dorea, all of which had been submitted to the state auction process after the ostensible default in payment by their prior owner, Dorion.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002169807

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002169807

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Narrow wood tablet with writing on both sides. The recto contains 16 lines of Greek and one line of a Demotic subscript summarizing the Greek. The verso contains three lines of Greek briefly recording the date and payment amount. The top of the piece of the wood was shaped into a point prior to writing and is referred to in several of the publications as ‘stela-shaped’.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Egyptian demotic
Greek

Start Date:

-0255

End Date:

-0255

Date Range:

8 September 255 BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Wood.

Dimensions: 137 x 57 x 5 mm.

Script: The recto contains 16 lines of 3^rd c. cursive Greek followed by a Demotic subscription. The verso records a date and summary in three lines of Greek.

Custodial History:

Origin: Dios Polis (Thebes East), Egypt

Provenance: Dios Polis (Thebes East), Egypt. Owned by Giovanni Anastasi, Swedish and Norwegian Consul-General in Egypt. Formerly Inv. No.5849c, later 29530, in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum. Transferred from the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, 19 February 1971.

Former External References:

SB I 3937
UPZ II 155

Former Internal References:

EA 29530
EA 5849c

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Library (New Series), 1971-1975, London 1998, p. 6.

E. Revillout, ‘Un Bilingue Monétaire Billet a Ordre du Temps de Philadelphie ‘, Revue égyptologique, 2 (1881), p. 267 & Pl. 54-55.

E. Revillout, ‘Un Papyrus Bilingue du Temps de Philopator’, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 14 (1891), p. 82.

U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte, I (Leipzig; Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient, 1899), p. 66, no. 1.

F. Preisigke, Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten (Strassburg: Karl J. Truebner, 1915), pp. 265-66, no. 3937.

A. Pelletier, M. Malinine, ‘Planchette gréco-égyptienne du Cabinet des Médailles’, Revue des études grecques 58 (1945), p. 193 & Pl. 1.

U. Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit II: Papyri aus Oberägypten (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1957), pp. 11-12, no. 155.

P. Cauderlier, Les tablettes grecques d'Égypte: inventaire (Turnhout: Brepols, 1992), p. 88, no. 247.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 270.

K. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Leuven: Trismegistos Online Publications 2012; Version 1.0), p. 64.

Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)