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Papyrus 1209
- Record Id:
- 040-002104457
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002ed
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464563.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1209
- Title:
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Sale of Land (P.Lond. III 1209, TM 95)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up by the notary Hermias in Pathyris, recording the sale of half arura of arable land from Nechuthes, son of Peteharsemtheus, to Peteharsemtheus, son of Panebchounis, at the price of 1 talent and 3000 drachmas. With summary of the deed (scriptura interior, originally rolled up and sealed) in column 1 and original clay seal, showing a three-quarter or full-length figure facing to the right towards an object (a flower?) (TM Seal 898). The back bears the summary and one line in Demotic.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104457 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1209 : Sale of Land (P.Lond. III 1209, TM 95) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0006]/040-002104457
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus roll, complete, but damaged by few holes and breaks; the last sheet of the roll (front) displays vertical fibres, as opposed to the fibre orientation of the other sheets forming the roll. Writing is on both sides. The front bears two complete columns, the first with 8 lines and the second with 10 lines; margins are extant, with the lower and right being generous and measuring 65 and 95 mm respectively. Sheet-joins are visible. The original clay seal is preserved. On the back the writing is at the bottom; there are two columns with two lines each in Greek, and one line in Demotic above them. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464563.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0089
- End Date:
- -0089
- Date Range:
- 2 August 89 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus; clay.
Dimensions: 152 x 577 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 635 mm.
Script: Thick, cursive hand of small size; lines tend to incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Egypt.
Provenance: Pathryis (Gebelein), Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1209
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 20-21, no. 1209, with pl. 11.
P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap. Lugd. Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), p. 40, no. 112, pll. 2-3.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 187.
K. Vandorpe, 'Seals in and on the Papyri of Greco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt', in M.-Fr. Boussac, A. Invernizzi (eds.), Archives et Sceaux du monde hellénistique (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Suppl. 29) (Paris: de Boccard 1997), no. 43.
B. Laudenbach, ‘Deux remontages de papyrus strasbourgeois ("P. Stras". II 88 et "P. Stras". ix 883): Et les versos bilingues des archives de Pétéarsemtheus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 150 (2004), pp. 215-219.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)