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Egerton Papyrus 35
- Record Id:
- 040-001982512
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982502
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000116.0x000110
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142973831.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton Papyrus 35
- Title:
- Contract of Labour of Purple Dyers (P.Grenf. II 87, TM 22640)
- Scope & Content:
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A contract whereby Aurelius Ioannes and his two sons, purple-dyers of Hermopolis, acknowledge to have received almost five gold solidi each in advance from Colluthus, a flax-worker of Hermopolis, on account of the work they will be doing for Colluthus at his workshop. The work consists of dying 225 bundles. They will provide the necessary tools. Should the work not be completed, they will have to pay the money back in addition to a fine. Another Ioannes has written on their behalf as they are illiterate. The subscription of Colluthus follows. The docket is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Papyri Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982502
040-001982512 - Is part of:
- Egerton Papyrus 1-37 : Egerton Papyri
Egerton Papyrus 35 : Contract of Labour of Purple Dyers (P.Grenf. II 87, TM 22640) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001982502[0009]/040-001982512
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton Papyrus 1-37
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, of lighter colour in the middle portion, with damage along the folding lines and broken off at the bottom. Writing runs along the fibres on both sides, the back having a two-line docket. On the front the upper and lower margins are lost. No margin was left to the sides. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973831.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0602
- End Date:
- 0602
- Date Range:
- 23 May 602
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 265 x 111 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 350 x 200 mm.
Script: Fluent sloping cursive hand, often compressed at the end of the lines and with a tendency to become smaller towards the end of the text; lines tend to slope downwards slightly; the subscription in the last line displays more upright letters of bigger size; the hand on the verso is upright and cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased with Egerton Papyri 33-34 from Maggs on 14 January 1939 using the Farnborough fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough (b. 1760, d. 1838)).
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 87
Sel.Pap. I 23 - Publications:
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B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 110-114, no. 71.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 192.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 66-71, no. 23.
O. Montevecchi, I contratti di lavoro e di servizio nell’Egitto Greco, romano e bizantino (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1950), pp. 100-101, no. 24.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 63.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 143.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 87.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 111.
I. Bogensperger, ‘Purple and its various kinds in documentary papyri’, in S. Gaspa et al. (eds.), Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD (Lincoln: Zea Books 2017), pp. 235-247 (p. 246).
M. Harlow, M.-L. Nosch, Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (Philadelphia: Oxbow Books 2015), p. 119.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)