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Papyrus 313
- Record Id:
- 040-002104686
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000349
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126260.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 313
- Title:
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Sale of a Donkey (P.Lond. II 313, TM 11692)
- Scope & Content:
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Sale of a mouse-coloured female donkey for 64 drachmas in Kerkesoucha, bought by Stotoetis, son of Horus, aged 35, from Pasion, son of Phasis, aged 25. The date and place are provided at the beginning and are written in a hand different from that of the body of the document.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104686 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 313 : Sale of a Donkey (P.Lond. II 313, TM 11692) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0205]/040-002104686
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, with only a few small wormholes, located especially in the lower portion of the sheet. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. All margins are extant; at the right no margin was left. The blank space at the bottom measures 84-89 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126260.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0148
- End Date:
- 0148
- Date Range:
- 21 April 148
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 55 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 260 x 110 mm.
Script: Two hands. Lines 1-11: Thick, upright hand, detached, with a few ligatured sequences and somewhat irregular; it may be the same as the first hand of Papyrus 466. Line 11-end: Thin rapid cursive hand for the body of the document.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kerkesoucha, meris of Herakleides, 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:
- P.Lond. II 313
- 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. 197-198, no. 313.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 263.
H. J. Wolff, Das Recht der griechischen Papyri Ägyptens in der Zeit der Ptolemäer und des Prinzipats: in systematischer Darstellung mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Geschichte und Methodik der einzelnen Disziplinen. II Organisation und Kontrolle des privaten Rechtsverkehrs (München: Beck 1978), p. 128.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), tav. 53.
A. Jördens, ‘Sozialstrukturen im Arbeitstierhandel des kaiserzeitlichen Ägypten’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 10 (1995), pp. 37-100 (p. 46, n. 38, p. 54, n. 74, and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), pp. 176-177.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 98.
N. Litinas, 'P.Lond. III 1128: Sale of a Donkey’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 124 (1999), pp. 195-204 (p. 201).
W. C. Claytor, ‘Donkey Sales from the Grapheion of Kerkesoucha’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 194 (2015), pp. 201-208 (pp. 206, 208).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)