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Papyrus 335
- Record Id:
- 040-002104708
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00039f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126644.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 335
- Title:
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Lease of a Mill (P.Lond. II 335, Chrest.Wilck. 323, TM 11715)
- Scope & Content:
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Lease of a mill located near the village of Herakleia and belonging to the temple of Socnopaeus; the lessors are representatives of the priestly college of Soknopaiou Nesos, and the lessee is a certain Ammonaphis, a miller. For the first five years, the rental will have to be spent on the mill; from the sixth year of the lease, the rent to be paid is 120 drachmas per year besides produce of varous kinds. With subscriptions of two of the priests, Stotoetis, son of Stotoetis, and Stotoetis, son of Herieus, at the end; dated in year 7 of an unnamed emperor.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104708 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 335 : Lease of a Mill (P.Lond. II 335, Chrest.Wilck. 323, TM 11715) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0227]/040-002104708
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with minor damage along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The text is complete and consists of one column of 27 lines, with the last separated by some blank space. All margins are extant; no margin was left to the right; the blank space at the bottom measures 110 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0166
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 166-167 or 198-199
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 304 x 110 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 355 x 165 mm.
Script: Thin, somewhat irregular cursive hand; the subscriptions in lines 23-26 are in two hands, both rough uncials.
- 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. 323
P.Lond. II 335 - 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. 434.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 191-192, no. 335.
W. Otto, Priester und Tempel im hellenistischen Ägypten I (Leipzig: Teubner 1905), p. 297.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 380, no. 323.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 368-369, no. 211.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 43.
D. Sperber, ‘Costs of Living in Roman Palestine II (Continued)’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 9 (1966), pp. 182-211 (p. 184).
D. Hobson, ‘Agricultural Land and Economic Life in Soknopaiou Nesos’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 21 (1984), pp. 89-109 (p. 98).
D. Hobson, ‘The Village of Heraklia in the Arsinoite Nome’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 101-115 (pp. 108-109).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 110.
A. Jördens, ‘Sozialstrukturen im Arbeitstierhandel des kaiserzeitlichen Ägypten’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 10 (1995), pp. 37-100 (p. 75).
A. Jördens, ‘Griechische Papyri in Soknopaiou Nesos’, in S. L. Lippert, M. Schentuleit (eds.), Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos. Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum: Akten des Internationalen Symposions vom 11. bis 13. Dezember 2003 in Sommerhausen bei Würzburg (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz 2005), pp. 41-56 (pp. 50-51, n. 41).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)