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Papyrus 193
- Record Id:
- 040-002104574
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000377
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123396.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 193
- Title:
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Land Register (P.Lond. II 193 ro., TM 25635), and Account of a Pawnbroker (SB XVI 12421, P.Lond. II 193 vo., TM 26726)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 25635): Register of the second half of the first century recording owners of land, the size of the plots stated in aruras, and the tax stated in artabas of wheat.
Verso (26726): Second-century account recording the loans made on various days by a pawnbroker, on the security of dishes and cups, items of clothing and jewellery. The columns are numbered 10-12 at the top. The list records names of the borrowers, the sums loaned and the items pawned. Some lines were erased.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104574 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 193 : Land Register (P.Lond. II 193 ro., TM 25635), and Account of a Pawnbroker (SB XVI 12421, P.Lond. II 193 vo., TM 26726) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0112]/040-002104574
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments being the upper and lower portions of a light-brown papyrus roll. Both sides bear writing, with the text running along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The back was rotated 180 degrees. Each side contains portions of three columns, mutilated in the middle and worm-eaten throughout. The columns on the back were numbered 10-12 at the top. Vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 1st century-2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 130 x 506 mm; lower fragment: 150 x 539 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 355 x 610 mm.
Script: Recto: Thin, upright and rather ornamental hand; a second hand, more cursive and somewhat thicker, is responsible for writing few lines in the text. Verso: Sloping cursive hand, detached in places, somewhat rough and uneven, and occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 177-208 from L. Paul Philip on 26 March 1891.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 193ro.
P.Lond. II 193vo.
SB XVI 12421
Stud.Pal. XVII, pp. 49-52 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), pp. 406-407.
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 120-124, no. 193 recto.
V. Martin, 'Un document administratif du nome de Mendès', in C. Wessely (ed.), Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde XVII (Leipzig: E. Avenarius 1917), pp. 49-52.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 31-33, no. 12.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 93.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Short Remarks on Some Papyri III’, Aegyptus 66 (1986), pp. 147-161 (p. 160).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 460.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 344.
S. Pomeroy, ‘Women in Roman Egypt’, in H. Foley (ed.), Reflections of Women in Antiquity (New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers 1981), pp. 303-322 (p. 306).
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 245-247, no. 193 verso.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 458-459, no. 289.
E. M. Husselman, ‘Pawnbrokers' Accounts from Roman Egypt’, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 92 (1961), pp. 251-266 (p. 265).
A. Sakellaridou-Soutiroudi, ‘P. Lond. 193 (verso). Avec résumé en français’, Hellenika 31 (1979), pp. 358-367.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1985), pp. 128-129, no. 12421.
S. Russo, I gioielli nei papiri di età greco-romana (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 1999), p. 132, no. 9.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 214.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)