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Papyrus 229
- Record Id:
- 040-002104601
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000391
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108260.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 229
- Title:
- Deed of sale of a slave boy (P. Lond. I 229), with original seals
- Scope & Content:
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Deed of sale (P. Lond. I 229), in Latin, whereby C. Fabullius Macer purchases a boy named Abbas or Eutyches, aged seven years, from Q. Julius Priscus. Signed by the parties and witnesses, whose seals are ranged along the top of the document. Mutilated Greek subscription.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Papyri Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104601 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 229 : Deed of sale of a slave boy (P. Lond. I 229), with original seals - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0002]/040-002104601
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 roll, writing on one side only, mounted in glass
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108260.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0166
- End Date:
- 0166
- Date Range:
- 24 May 0166
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Papyrus
Dimensions: 385 x 275mm, in a frame, 435 x 330mm. A rolled portion at the top is secured by the witness seals. This has never been opened, but is likely 50-60mm in length, and does not seem to contain any additional writing.
Script: Notarial Latin cursive, written across the fibres.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Written at Seleucia Pieria (Syria) on 24 May 166.
Provenance:
Possibly found at Fayum: Thompson (1895), p. 433. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 229-255 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 14 January 1893.
- Former External References:
- P. Lond. I 229
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years MDCCCLXXXVIII-MDCCCXCIII, London 1894, p. 412.
E. M. Thompson, 'On a Latin Deed of Sale of a Slave; 24th May, A.D. 166', Archaeologia 54 (1895) pp. 433-438.
Chr Schulten, ‘Ein römischer Kaufvertrag auf Papyrus aus dem Jahre 166 n. Chr.’, Hermes 32 (1897), pp. 273-89.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol II, ed. F. G. Kenyon, London 1898, p. xxi.
R. Cavenaile, Corpus Papyrorum Latinarum, Wiesbaden 1958, pp. 232-233, no. 120 (with additional bibliography).
Chartae Latinae Antiquiores, Pt. III, edd. A. Bruckner and R. Marichal, Olten 1963, pp. 68-71, no. 200 (with additional bibliography).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)