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Papyrus 141
- Record Id:
- 040-002104522
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000331
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122832.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 141
- Title:
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Sale of Land (P.Lond. II 141, TM 11626)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up in Ptolemais Euergetis, recording the sale of 12 ¾ aruras of oliveyards located near Karanis and Psenharpsenesis, bought by Miccalus, son of Ptolemaeus alias Petheus, from Didymus alias Diodorus and his wife Diodora. With superscription in a different hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104522 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 141 : Sale of Land (P.Lond. II 141, TM 11626) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0060]/040-002104522
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Upper portion of a long slip of papyrus, broken off at the bottom and left, and darkened in places; damaged by abrasion and holes, with occasional loss of horizontal fibres at the bottom. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Parts of 10 lines are preserved. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122832.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0088
- End Date:
- 0088
- Date Range:
- 3 June 88
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 88 x 559 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 140 x 610 mm.
Script: Careful and well formed book-hand of fair size; with slight cursive tendencies; thin and mostly upright; with occasional serifs; small cursive hand for date in line 1.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 139-176 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 2 February 1891.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 141
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 397.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 181-182, no. 141.
F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), pp. 88-89, with pl. xvii.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 138, facsimile no. 16.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II. I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), plate 146.
W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C. H. Beck 1925), p. 118, pl. 77.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 260.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), pl. 12a.
H. Maehler, Urkunden römischer Zeit II (Berlin: Hessling 1968), no. 2017.
S. Morison, N. Barker, Politics and script: aspects of authority and freedom in the development of Graeco-Latin script from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1972), pp. 12, 14, with pl. 11.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 60.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), tav. 43.
W. G. Claytor, M. G. Elmaghrabi, ‘New Editions of Two Rent Receipts from the Archive of Mikkalos’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018), pp. 219-227 (pp. 219-220).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)