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Papyrus 448
- Record Id:
- 040-002104819
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000134
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471884.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 448
- Title:
- Sale of a Storehouse and Apartment (P.Bodl. I 45, SB I 5113, TM 22584), and Declaration of Inheritance (TM 23737)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 22584): Greek contract for the sale of a storehouse and an apartment above it, inherited from the vendors’ parents, at a price of four and two thirds solidi of gold, of which the sellers acknowledge receipt. The buyers are Paamios, Jacob, Thecla; the names of the vendors are lost; dated about 610. Further portions from the beginning of the text are in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, inventoried as MS. Gr. class. c. 25 (P).
Verso (TM 23737): Declaration in Coptic by Victor and his wife Herai in favour of their daughter and granddaughter, who will inherit all their possessions. Any declaration or statement made in the future shall be invalid. Dated 22 January 627; with subscriptions of the declarants (written by someone else) and of the witnesses at the end. The beginning of the text is preserved in the Bodleian fragment, inventoried as MS. Gr. class. c. 25 (P), and includes a short summary in Greek.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104819 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 448 : Sale of a Storehouse and Apartment (P.Bodl. I 45, SB I 5113, TM 22584), and Declaration of Inheritance (TM 23737) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0317]/040-002104819
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus roll, another fragment of which is Oxford, Bodleian Library, inventoried as MS. Gr. class. c. 25 (P); broken off at the top and damaged throughout, especially along the central vertical fold; written on both sides. On the front, there are 30 lines in Greek written across the fibres; the Bodleian fragment preserves further 14 lines from the top. On the back, there are 37 lines in Coptic written along the fibres; the Bodleian fragment preserves 9 further lines from the beginning of the text. The papyrus was rolled up from bottom to top; housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471884.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Coptic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Coptic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0610
- End Date:
- 0627
- Date Range:
- 610-627
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 435 x 345 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 480 x 380 mm.
Script: Recto: Neat and skilled upright cursive hand of fair size. Verso: Sloping hand, Coptic; different hands for the subscriptions.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Apollonopolis (Edfu), Egypt.
Provenance: Apollonopolis (Edfu), Egypt. Presented with Papyrus 449 by the Reverend Arthur C. Headlam (b. 1862, d. 1947) on 26 October 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Bodl. I 45
SB I 5113
SB XX 14427 - 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. 449.
Recto
Bernard P. Grenfell, ‘Some New Papyri from Apollonopolis’, Journal of Philology, 22 (1894), 268-84 (p. 277, no. 2).
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, II (London: British Museum, 1898), p. xxxix, no. 448 descr.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1915), p. 481, no. 5113.
Robert P. Salomons, Papyri Bodleianae, 1 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996), pp. 128-34, no. 45.
Klaas A. Worp, ‘Bemerkungen zu Papyri XVII’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 19 (2004), 255-61 (pp. 260-61).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 48.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, II (London: British Museum, 1898), p. xxxix, no. 448 descr.
Walter E. Crum, Varia Coptica. Texts, translations, indexes (Aberdeen; University Press, 1939), pp. 8-9, no. 5.
Walter C. Till, Erbrechtliche Untersuchungen auf Grund der koptischen Urkunden (Wien: In Kommission bei R.M. Rohrer, 1954.), pp. 224-26.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1997), no. 14427.
Robert P. Salomons, Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Varia Coptica No. 5, Made Complete’, Enchoria, 15 (1987), 55-59, with plates 7-9.
Robert P. Salomons, Papyri Bodleianae, 1 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996), p. 320.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 228.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)