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Papyrus 154
- Record Id:
- 040-002104535
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00033e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122986.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 154
- Title:
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Sale of Part of a Courtyard (P.Lond. II 154, Chrest.Mitt. 255, TM 11630)
- Scope & Content:
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A deed of sale whereby Heraclides, son of Petheus, aged 20, sells a portion of a courtyard located in Karanis to Philemon, son of Ptolemaeus, for 200 drachmas. The subscriptions of the parties follow: Corax, son of Apollonius, wrote on behalf of Heraclides and his mother Isidora as they are illiterate. The registration docket is at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104535 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 154 : Sale of Part of a Courtyard (P.Lond. II 154, Chrest.Mitt. 255, TM 11630) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0073]/040-002104535
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, lacking the lower left edge and abraded in places, especially in the left half. Writing runs on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text consists of one broad column; the last few lines are broken at the beginning. All margins are preserved, the upper and right being minimal and the left being irregular. There are a few wormholes. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122986.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0068
- End Date:
- 0068
- Date Range:
- 16 January 68
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 289 x 347 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 340 x 395 mm.
Script: Skilled cursive hand of good size; little space is left from one line to another in the subscription of Heraclides, written by Corax in a cursive hand; the subscription of Philemon is written in a rough and detached hand 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 255
P.Lond. II 154 - 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. 399.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 178-180, no. 154.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 292-293, no. 255.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 259.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 81.
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996), pp. 157-161 (p. 161).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)