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Papyrus 143
- Record Id:
- 040-002104524
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000333
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122851.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 143
- Title:
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Return of Remaining Pledge (P.Lond. II 143, TM 11628)
- Scope & Content:
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Cephalas, son of Petosiris, acknowledges that he has received the outstanding 160 drachmas from Tapontos, wife of Miccalus, out of the 200 drachmas they had agreed on account of a plot of land. With subscription of Cephalas written by Heron, son of Satyrus, on his behalf, and registration docket at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104524 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 143 : Return of Remaining Pledge (P.Lond. II 143, TM 11628) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0062]/040-002104524
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete, although slightly damaged, especially along the vertical folds. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, with the back blank; the text is complete and consists of 36 lines; all margins are extant, the right and bottom being minimal. Upper and left margins measure 32 and 20 mm respectively. The surface is slightly abraded in places. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122851.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0097
- End Date:
- 0097
- Date Range:
- 2 March 97
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 240 x 119; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 175 mm.
Script: Experienced, rapid cursive hand of small size, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines; rapid, upright cursive with increased speed from line 26 for the subscription; the last line displays larger and thicker letters.
- 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 143
- 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. 204-205, no. 143.
F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), p. 44 and plate VI.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 185, n. 1.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 263-264.
E. M. Thomspon, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, second series, I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1924), pl. 148.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 61.
É. Jakab, ‘Sale with Earnest Money in the Papyri’, in Symposion 2001. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Evanston, Illinois, 5.–8. September 2001) (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) pp. 199-218 (p. 216 and passim).
É. Jakab, Risikomanagement beim Weinkauf: Periculum und Praxis im Imperium Romanum (München: C. H. Beck 2009), p. 97, and passim.
W. G. Claytor, ‘Heron, Son of Satyros: a Scribe in the Grapheion of Karanis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 190 (2014), pp. 199-202 (p. 200).
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)