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Papyrus 314
- Record Id:
- 040-002104687
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00034a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126276.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 314
- Title:
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Sub-lease of Public Land (P.Lond. II 314, Chrest.Mitt. 149, Chrest.Wilck. 356, TM 11693)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract for a one-year sub-lease of seven aruras of public land located around Bakchias. The rent of 2 artabas per arura is to be paid by Heraclides, son of Horion, to Stotoetis and Pacysis, sons of Apynchis, who had leased the land from the village of Soknopaiou Nesos.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104687 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 314 : Sub-lease of Public Land (P.Lond. II 314, Chrest.Mitt. 149, Chrest.Wilck. 356, TM 11693) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0206]/040-002104687
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Complete papyrus sheet, slightly damaged along the folding lines and with a darker stain in the middle. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank; the text consists of twenty-seven lines, the last three of which are separated from the rest of the text by little blank space. All margins are extant; 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_100143126276.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0149
- End Date:
- 0149
- Date Range:
- 19 October 149
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 212 x 95 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 260 x 145 mm.
Script: Neat, upright cursive hand, cramped and occasionally compressed at the end of the lines. An interlinear addition in the same hand occurs between lines 9 and 10. The last two lines with the date are written very cursively.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides (?), Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides (?), 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. 149
Chrest.Wilck. 356
P.Lond. II 314 - 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. 429-430.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 189-190, no. 314.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 157).
M. I. Rostovtzeff, Studien zur Geschichte des römischen Kolonates (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1910), pp. 163, 166.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 419, no. 356.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 160-161, no. 149.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 112, no. 32.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)