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Papyrus 350
- Record Id:
- 040-002104723
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00000c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143126887.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 350
- Title:
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Application for Lease of Land (P.Lond. II 350, Chrest.Wilck. 353, TM 11731)
- Scope & Content:
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An application addressed to Monimus Gemellus, royal scribe of the division of Herakleides, from five men of Soknopaiou Nesos, Stotoetis, Panephremmis, Horus, Pacysis, and Amunis, for leasing 150 aruras of shore-land. The lease is for one year and the rent is of two drachmas per arura. With subscriptions of the lessees at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104723 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 350 : Application for Lease of Land (P.Lond. II 350, Chrest.Wilck. 353, TM 11731) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0242]/040-002104723
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but damaged at the bottom and along the vertical folds. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The text is complete and consists of one wide column of 20 lines. Left, upper and lower margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 50 mm; 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_100143126887.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0212
- End Date:
- 0212
- Date Range:
- 27 October 212
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 226 x 173 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 225 mm.
Script: Practised and neat cursive hand of fair size; a line was added between the original lines 12 and 13. Different hands for the subscriptions in the last four lines: small, uneven rapid cursive with a slant to the right, hand of Stotoetis; the last two lines display rough, upright detached letters.
- 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. 353
P.Lond. II 350 - 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. 437.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 192-193, no. 350.
M. I. Rostovtzeff, Studien zur Geschichte des römischen Kolonates (Leipzig-Berlin: B.G. Teubner 1910), p. 169.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 415-, no. 353.
D. Hobson, ‘Agricultural Land and Economic Life in Soknopaiou Nesos’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 21 (1984), pp. 89-109 (p. 97, and passim).
J. Herrmann, Kleine Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte (München: C.H. Beck 1990), p. 207.
T. Kruse, Der Königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung 1 (München- Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2002), p. 576.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)