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Papyrus 334
- Record Id:
- 040-002104707
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00039e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126633.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 334
- Title:
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Receipt for Earnest-Money (P.Lond. II 334, Chrest.Mitt. 258, TM 11714)
- Scope & Content:
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The priestess Thases, daughter of Stotoetis, and another Thases, daughter of Horus, acknowledge that they have received the payment of 14 drachmas out of 21 from Taouetis for the purchase of a share of a house located in Soknopaiou Nesos. With subscription of the vendors written by Stotoetis as they are illiterate. The document was registered in the registration office (grapheion) of Neilopolis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104707 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 334 : Receipt for Earnest-Money (P.Lond. II 334, Chrest.Mitt. 258, TM 11714) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0226]/040-002104707
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, with small insect holes and abrasion in the left half; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text is complete and consists of one column of 36 lines; all margins are extant; no margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143126633.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0166
- End Date:
- 0166
- Date Range:
- 19 October 166
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 228 x 156 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 205 mm.
Script: Regular and fluent cursive hand of small size; different hand from end of line 27, thin and sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Origin: Neilopolis (Tell el-Rusas), 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 258
P.Lond. II 334
Sel.Pap. I 76 - 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. 433-434.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 211-212, no. 334, with pl. 68.
O. Gradenwitz, Einführung in die Papyruskunde (Leipzig: Hirzel 1900), pp. 82-83.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 295, no. 258.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 264.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 219-223, no. 76.
D. Hobson, ‘Women as Property Owners in Roman Egypt’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 113 (1983), pp. 311-321 (p. 318).
D. Hobson, ‘Agricultural Land and Economic Life in Soknopaiou Nesos’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 21 (1984), pp. 89-109 (p. 103, n. 35).
E. Jakab, ‘Sale with Earnest Money in the Papyri’, in R. W. Wallace, M. Gagarin (eds.), Symposion 2001: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Evanston, Illinois, 5.–8. September 2001). Papers on Greek and Hellenistic Legal History (Evanston, Illinois, September 5–8, 2001) (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2005), pp. 199-218 (p. 210 and passim).
E. Jakab, Risikomanagement beim Weinkauf: Periculum und Praxis im Imperium Romanun (München: C.H. Beck 2009), p. 91, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)