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Add MS 38895 B
- Record Id:
- 032-003464883
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003464883
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088122531.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165149243.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38895 B
- Title:
- Sale of a Vineyard (TM 97890)
- Scope & Content:
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The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Denes from another named Aspomaces. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to 22/21 BC if the date (year 291) is a Seleucid year; if an Arsacid year, to 43/44.
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.
With the two original clay seals and string housed in a frame named Add MS 38895 C.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003464883", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 38895 B: Sale of a Vineyard (TM 97890)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003464883
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003464883
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Parchment sheet, complete, with little surface damage and few holes, located in the upper portion. Written on one side, the back bearing the British Museum red stamp and the inventory number. The front has 30 lines, and all margins are extant. The sheet is housed in a glass case named Add MS 38895 B. The original clay seals and string used to seal the documents are housed in another frame, named Add MS 38895 C.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165149243.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0022
- End Date:
- 0044
- Date Range:
- 22-21 BC or 43-44
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment, clay.
Dimensions: 270 x 210 mm; housed in a frame named Add MS 38895 B, measuring 335 x 270 mm. The second frame containing the seals, named Add MS 38895 C, measures 120 x 165 mm.
Script: Rather irregular cursive, characterized by thick and uniform tracing, clumsy ductus, conspicuous presence of deforming ligatures.
- 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 A and Or. 8115 about 1909. Taken to London by Dr. Sa'id Khan. The documents were sold at Sotheby's in 1913.
- 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)