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Papyrus 262
- Record Id:
- 040-002104635
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003c6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058771090.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 262
- Title:
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Certificate of Sale of a House (P.Dime III 5, P.Lond. II 262, TM 44702)
- Scope & Content:
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Certificate of sale of a house with veranda and empty plots in Soknopaiou Nesos, purchased by Satabous from the priest Chairemon and his wife. The beginning of the papyrus has the Demotic text with the cession of the house (P.Dime III 5); after a blank space, two Greek lines contain date, place and abstract of the document; after further blank space, there is the body of the Greek document; with subscriptions of Chairemon in Greek and of Satabous in Demotic at the end. Dated to Hathyr 24, 41st year of Augustus. The document belongs to the archive of Satabous and Greek copies of it are to be found in SB I 5231, 5275, CPR XV 2-4.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104635 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 262 : Certificate of Sale of a House (P.Dime III 5, P.Lond. II 262, TM 44702) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0154]/040-002104635
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Complete, although much damaged by wormholes; from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058771090.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0011
- End Date:
- 0011
- Date Range:
- 21 November 11
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 285 x 820 mm; mounted in a glass frame measuring 310 x 915 mm.
Script: Different hands, irregular semi-cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 256-271 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 14 March 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Dime III 5
P.Lond. II 262 - 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. 419-420.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 176-177, no. 262.
C. Wessely, Papyrorum scripturae graecae specimina isagogica (Lipsiae: E. Avenarium 1900), p. 3.
U. Wilcken, ‘Referate und Besprechungen. Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandteGebiete 2 (1903), pp. 117-159 (p. 143).
N. J. Reich, ‘Ein demotisch-griechischer Kontrakt eines Hauskaufes’, Sphinx 14 (1911), pp. 4-26.
L. Mitteis, U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde II.2 (Leipzig-Berlin: B. G. Teubner 1912), pp. 193-194, no. 181.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1913), p. 259.
E. Revillout, ‘Textes démotiques d'époque ptolémaïque et romaine transcrits en hiéroglyphes’, Revue égyptologique 14 (1914), pp. 39-69 (pp. 39-40, 42).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1986), p. 84.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1995), pp. 128.
M. Schentuleit, ‘Die spätdemotische Hausverkaufsurkunde P. BM 262: Ein bilingues Dokument aus Soknopaiu Nesos mit griechischen Übersetzungen’, Enchoria 27 (2001), pp. 127-154.
S. Lippert, M. Schentuleit, Demotische Dokumente aus Dime III. Urkunden (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2010), pp. 149-155, no. 5.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)