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Papyrus 320
- Record Id:
- 040-002104693
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000350
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147454063.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 320
- Title:
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Sale of a Camel (P.Lond. II 320, Chrest.Mitt. 177, TM 11700)
- Scope & Content:
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Sale of one female camel of the three registered in the previous year by Satabous, son of Satabous, for 800 drachmas through the bank of Dioxenus. The purchaser, Satabous, son of Harmachis, of Soknopaiou Nesos, will register the camel.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104693 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 320 : Sale of a Camel (P.Lond. II 320, Chrest.Mitt. 177, TM 11700) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0212]/040-002104693
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but damaged by holes at the left and bottom; it bears writing on one side along the fibres, with the back blank. The text consists of one column with 19 lines, some of which lack the beginning. Margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 93 mm; the right margin is irregular and minimal. A sheet-join runs across the fibres at approximately 30 mm from the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147454063.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0157
- End Date:
- 0158
- Date Range:
- 157-158
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 225 x 94 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 140 mm.
Script: Thin, rapid and practised cursive hand of small size, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines.
- 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. 177
P.Lond. II 320 - 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. 431.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. 198, no. 320.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 190-191, no. 177.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 263.
A. Leone, Gli animali da trasporto nell'Egitto greco, romano e bizantino (Roma: Editrice Pontificio istituto biblico 1988), p. 58 and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 101.
U. Yiftach, ‘The Grammatikon: Some Considerations on the Feeing Policies of Legal Documents in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods’, D. P. Kehoe, D. M. Ratzan, U. Yiftach, Law and transaction costs in the ancient economy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2015), pp. 162-180 (p. 171).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)