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Papyrus 331
- Record Id:
- 040-002104704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00039b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126579.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 331
- Title:
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Contract for the Hire of Performers (P.Lond. II 331, Chrest.Wilck. 495, TM 11712)
- Scope & Content:
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Satyrus, son of Satyrus, of Soknopaiou Nesos, undertakes to hire Cosmus, chief flute-player, and some musicians and performers for a period of six days. Cosmus will be paid 40 drachmas per day; four donkeys for the commute will also be supplied. With dating clause at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104704 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 331 : Contract for the Hire of Performers (P.Lond. II 331, Chrest.Wilck. 495, TM 11712) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0223]/040-002104704
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete but with some surface damage, especially in the left half; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column of 21 lines, which occupy slightly more than half of the sheet; margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 83 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126579.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0165
- End Date:
- 0165
- Date Range:
- 1 October 165
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 231 x 70 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 130 mm.
Script: Rapid cursive hand of small size, thicker in places, with some uneven 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.Wilck. 495
P.Lond. II 331 - 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. 433.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 154-155, no. 331, with pl. 65.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (pp. 153-154).
U. Wilcken, ‘Neue Nachträge zu P. Lond. II’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 232-246 (p. 241).
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 574-575, no. 495.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 255.
M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp., no. 16.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 61.
F. Perpillou-Thomas, Fêtes d’Égypte ptolémaïque et romaine d'après la documentation papyrologique grecque (Louvanii: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1993), pp. 273-274.
G. Tedeschi, ‘Lo spettacolo in età ellenistica e tardo antica nella documentazione epigrafica e papiracea’, Papyrologica Lupiensia 11 (2002), pp. 87-187 (pp. 154-155, no. 5) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 101.
G. Tedeschi, ‘Figura professionale di musico in PLond II 331.5’, Studi di egittologia e di papirologia 1 (2004), pp. 147-148.
M. Bergamasco, ‘Ancora sulla paramone di PTebt II 384’, Studi di egittologia e di papirologia 4 (2007), pp. 67-71 (p. 68).
G. Tedeschi, Intrattenimenti e spettacoli nell'Egitto ellenistico-romano (Trieste: EUT 2011), p. 63, no. 5.
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. 31, n. 38).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)