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Papyrus 311
- Record Id:
- 040-002104684
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000347
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126219.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 311
- Title:
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Loan of Money (P.Lond. II 311, Chrest.Mitt. 237, TM 11690)
- Scope & Content:
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A loan of money, registered in the registration office (grapheion) of Herakleia, with official stamp on the back. Thaesis, daughter of Panephremmis, of Soknopaiou Nesos, and her sons borrow 1200 drachmas from Heracleia, daughter of Dioscorus. The money is to be returned with interest and is secured against land in Herakleia and two slaves. The document was written by Alcimus and bears the subscriptions at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104684 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 311 : Loan of Money (P.Lond. II 311, Chrest.Mitt. 237, TM 11690) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0203]/040-002104684
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Incomplete papyrus sheet, broken off at the left and with five detached scraps located in the left-hand side of the frame. The sheet is damaged by holes throughout, especially along the vertical folds, with loss mostly affecting the left portion. Writing runs along the fibres on the front, with one broad column of 25 lines, the last of which is indented. The back has traces of lines written across the fibres, much defaced, and the official stamp in red. Upper and lower margins are extant; no blank space was left at the right. The surface is abraded in places. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126219.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0149
- End Date:
- 0149
- Date Range:
- 6 February 149
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 204 x 281 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 330 mm.
Script: Rapid and proficient cursive, occasionally more compressed at the ends of the lines. The subscriptions at the end are rough and inexperienced and display detached upright letters.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Herakleia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, 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. 237
P.Lond. II 311 - 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. 429.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 219-220, no. 311.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 160).
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 262-263, no. 237.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 265.
D. Hobson, ‘Agricultural Land and Economic Life in Soknopaiou Nesos’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 21 (1984), pp. 89-109 (p. 101, and passim).
D. Hobson, ‘The Village of Heraklia in the Arsinoite Nome’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 101-115 (p. 105 and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 84.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)