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Papyrus 142
- Record Id:
- 040-002104523
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000332
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122843.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 142
- Title:
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Repayment of a Loan (P.Lond. II 142, TM 11627)
- Scope & Content:
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Marcus Sempronius Gemellus, a soldier of the Legio III Cyrenaica, acknowledges that he has received 1240 drachmas with interest from Miccalus, son of Ptolemaeus, as repayment of a loan contracted at Alexandria. No further claims shall be laid against Miccalus. With date, subscriptions of Gemellus and Miccalus and registration docket at the registration office of Karanis at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104523 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 142 : Repayment of a Loan (P.Lond. II 142, TM 11627) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0061]/040-002104523
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, with a few wormholes throughout. The text runs along the fibres on one side and is complete; it consists of one column with 27 lines. The back is blank. All margins are extant, the right being irregular and minimal. The upper and lower margins measure 28 and x 50 respectively. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122843.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0095
- End Date:
- 0095
- Date Range:
- 28 November 95
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 240 x 172 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 295 x 220 mm.
Script: Small, proficient upright cursive hand, somewhat irregular; second hand from line 20 for the subscription of Gemellus, more cursive, irregular and rough; third hand in line 26 and beginning of line 27, with subscription of Miccalus, rough, uneven and irregular cursive of bigger size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome Egypt.
Provenance: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, 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 142
- 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. 203-204, no. 142.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II. I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), plate 147.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 263.
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996), pp. 157-161 (p. 160).
D. Hagedorn, ‘Noch einmal: Who got the Contract?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998), pp. 177–180 (p. 177).
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 (p. 219).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)