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Papyrus 998-999
- Record Id:
- 040-002104481
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00030d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464058.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 998-999
- Title:
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Sale of Wine on Delivery (SB XVI 12488, P.Lond. III 998 descr.+P.Lond. III 999, TM 16251)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt acknowledging that Ioannes, a deacon from the Hermopolite village of Esneu, has received the payment on account of 80 metra (a measure) of wine from Flavius Silvanus, a soldier of the unit of the Moors. The wine shall be delivered after the following vintage. With docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104481 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 998-999 : Sale of Wine on Delivery (SB XVI 12488, P.Lond. III 998 descr.+P.Lond. III 999, TM 16251) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0025]/040-002104481
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, consisting of two joining fragments which were formerly inventoried separately: Papyrus 998 is the left-hand side fragment, and Papyrus 999 is the right-hand side fragment. The sheet is broken off at the bottom, lacks part of the left half at the bottom (front), and displays minor surface damage. Writing runs along the fibres on both sides, the back having a one-line docket. The front bears 18 lines; lines 8-17 lack the beginnings; of line 18 only few traces remain. Upper and side margins are minimal, with the left margin surviving up to line 7. On the back, only the beginning of the line remains. The papyrus sheet is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0538
- End Date:
- 0538
- Date Range:
- 2 December 538
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 182 x 212 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 240 x 280 mm.
Script: Fluent and elegant sloping cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 998 descr.
P.Lond. III 999
SB XVI 12488 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. li, no. 998 descr., p. 270, no. 999, with pl. 85.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 298.
A. Bataille, Les Papyrus (Paris: Les Presses Universitaires 1955), pl. IX.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Zutphen: Terra 1978), p. 123.
H. Harrauer, ‘Sechs byzantinische Weinkaufverträge aus dem Hermupolites. Mit Bemerkungen zu einigen Formeln’, in R. Pintaudi (ed.), Miscellanea Papyrologica. Papyrologica Florentina VII (Firenze: Gonnelli 1980) pp. 109-126 (pp. 114-115, no. 2).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1985), pp. 155-156, no. 12488.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), pp. 87-88.
F. Mitthof, ‘Quittung eines ὑποδέκτης ἀννωνῶν ἐπὶ τόπων Μαύρων uber eine Steuerzahlung in Gold’, in A. Bülow-Jakobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology. Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 258-266 (pp. 260, 262).
J. G. Keenan, ‘Soldier and Civilian in Byzantine Hermopolis’, in A. Bülow-Jakobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology. Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 444-451 (pp. 444, 451).
N. Kruit, ‘Local Customs in the Formulas of Sales of Wine for Future Delivery (A Supplement to P.Heid. V)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 94 (1992), pp. 167-184 (pp. 175-176, 183-184).
N. Kruit, ‘Three Byzantine Sales for Future Delivery SB XVI 12401 + 12402, SB VI 9051, P.Lond. III 997’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 9 (1994), pp. 67-88 (p. 79 and passim).
K. Maresch, Nomisma und Nomismatia: Beiträge zur Geldgeschichte Ägyptens im 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1994), pp. 55, 162.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 284.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 214.
E. Jakab, Risikomanagement beim Weinkauf: Periculum und Praxis im Imperium Romanun (München: C.H. Beck 2009), pp. 125-126, and passim.
E. Jakab, ‘Kauf oder Darlehen? Lieferungskäufe über Wein aus dem römischen Ägypten’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 335-344 (p. 339 and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)