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Papyrus 163
- Record Id:
- 040-002104544
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000359
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123094.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 163
- Title:
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Lease of Vineyard (P.Lond. II 163, TM 11632)
- Scope & Content:
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Lease of 4.5 aruras of vineyard located near Karanis for a period of three years, the lessees being Sambas and Neon and the lessors Chaeremon, Horion and Socrates, sons of Chaeremon. The lessees will pay two-thirds of the produce to the lessors, and undertake to perform all work related to the vineyard, including labour, irrigation, and the appropriate pruning.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104544 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 163 : Lease of Vineyard (P.Lond. II 163, TM 11632) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0082]/040-002104544
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and lacking the right-hand edge; damaged by few holes and occasionally abraded. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The text consists of one column, with portions of 35 lines. Left and upper margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123094.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0088
- End Date:
- 0088
- Date Range:
- July-August 88
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 175 x 128 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 225 x 175 mm.
Script: Medium-sized cursive hand.
- 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 163
- 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. 400.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 182-183, no. 163, with pl. 32.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 260-261.
J. Shelton, ‘P.Lond. 163’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 14 (1974), p. 50.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 174.
J. S. Kloppenborg, The tenants in the vineyard: Ideology, economics, and agrarian conflict in Jewish Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2006), pp. 496-499.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)