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Papyrus 301
- Record Id:
- 040-002104674
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0002fd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125773.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 301
- Title:
-
Freight Contract (P.Lond. II 301, Chrest.Mitt. 340, TM 19981)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary agreement, whereby the contracting party undertakes to look after a public freight of wheat with diligence and care, and to deliver it safe and undamaged. With signature at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104674 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 301 : Freight Contract (P.Lond. II 301, Chrest.Mitt. 340, TM 19981) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0193]/040-002104674
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Lower part of a light-brown papyrus sheet, with the surface abraded in the middle along the height of the sheet. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. 16 lines from the end of a column survive, with the last line indented and separated from the rest of the text by a horizontal line. Left and bottom margins are preserved; no margin was left at the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125773.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0138
- End Date:
- 0161
- Date Range:
- 138-161
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 120 x 95 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 170 x 145 mm.
Script: Neat, upright detached hand, with very few ligatures. The signature at the end is in a cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 272-400 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 11 April 1893.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 340
P.Lond. II 301 - 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. 427.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 256-257, no. 301.
U. Wilcken, ‘Neue Nachträge zu P. Lond. II’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 232-246 (p. 243).
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 389-390, no. 340.
P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), pp. 139-140.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 266.
S. LR. Wallace, Taxation in Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1938), p. 22.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 93.
A. J. M. Meyer-Termeer, Die Haftung der Schiffer im griechischen und römischen Recht (Zutphen: Terra 1978), pp. 56-57, 86.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 98.
J. L. Alonso ‘Fault, strict liability and risk in the law of the papyri’, in J. Urbanik (ed.), Culpa. Facets of Liability in Ancient Legal Theory and Practice Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Warsaw 17–19 February 2011. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement XIX (Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity, University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Papyrology, The Raphael Taubenschlag Foudation, 2012), pp. 19-82 (pp. 32, 42-46).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)