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Papyrus 216
- Record Id:
- 040-002104597
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00038e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123943.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 216
- Title:
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Lease of a Store-House (P.Lond. II 216, Chrest.Wilck. 192, TM 11652)
- Scope & Content:
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Application for a one-year lease of a store comprising, among the other things, a tower, a courtyard, and five store-rooms, at a rent of 45 artabas of wheat. The lessee is Herieus, son of Herieus, of Soknopaiou Nesos, aged 50, and the lessors are two men, both named Stotoetis, who are leasing land belonging to the temple of Socnopaeus. The lessors are responsible for repairs, and the lessee for the care of the produce stored there; the lessee also undertakes to provide the lessors a store-room in the building. With subscription of Herieus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104597 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 216 : Lease of a Store-House (P.Lond. II 216, Chrest.Wilck. 192, TM 11652) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0135]/040-002104597
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, with few holes located in the lower half; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column of 33 lines, complete; all margins are extant, with no margin having been left to the right. A sheet-join runs across the fibres along the height of the sheet at c. 20 mm from the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123943.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Georgian
- Start Date:
- 0094
- End Date:
- 0094
- Date Range:
- 1 May 94
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 249 x 137 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 185 mm.
Script: Regular, flowing cursive hand, with a slant to the right; different hand for the subscription in line 31, somewhat rougher cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 217-228 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 14 May 1892.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 192
P.Lond. II 216 - 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. 411.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 186-187, no. 216, with pl. 35.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, ‘Corrections to Kenyon's Catalogue of Brit. Mus. Papyri (II.)’, The Classical Review 12 (1898), pp. 434-436 (no. 9).
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), p. 651.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 157).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 224, no. 192.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II. I, II (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), plate 162.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 270, no. 159.
S. von Bolla-Kotek, Untersuchungen zur Tiermiete und Viehpacht im Altertum (München: Beck 1940), pp. 22-23.
D. Hobson, ‘Agricultural Land and Economic Life in Soknopaiou Nesos’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 21 (1984), pp. 89-109 (p. 98).
D. Hobson, ‘The Village of Heraklia in the Arsinoite Nome’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 101-115 (p. 108).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 83.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 175.
G. Geraci, ‘Granai nell’Egitto ellenistico e romano: problemi tipologici, lessicali, funzionali e metodologici’, Mélanges de l'école française de Rome 120-2 (2008), pp. 307-322 (pp. 308-309).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)