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Papyrus 466
- Record Id:
- 040-002104837
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000186
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128254.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 466
- Title:
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Sale of a Donkey (P.Lond. II 466, TM 11749)
- Scope & Content:
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Sale of a female donkey for 160 drachmas in Kerkesoucha, bought by Panephremmis, son of Apynchis, from Petosiris, son of Clodius. The date and place are provided at the beginning and are written in a hand different from that of the body of the document. The subscription at the end was written by Mysthes, son of Melas, on behalf of Petosiris, who was illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104837 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 466 : Sale of a Donkey (P.Lond. II 466, TM 11749) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0335]/040-002104837
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with darker spots and slightly damaged along the right edge. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The text consists of a column of 23 lines. All margins are preserved, the right being minimal. The blank space at the bottom measures 62 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128254.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0143
- End Date:
- 0143
- Date Range:
- 22 June 143
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 70 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 115 mm.
Script: Lines 1-9: Thick, upright hand, detached, with a few ligatured sequences and somewhat irregular; it may be the same as the first hand of Papyrus 313. Lines 9-21: Thin, irregular, rapid cursive hand. Lines 22-23: Subscription: Smaller rapid cursive hand of Mysthes, who also wrote a papyrus in Vienna, SB XVIII 13866.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kerkesoucha, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 465-481 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in 1894.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 466
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 496.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), pp. 196-197, no. 466.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 263.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘P.Lond.II 466 und SPP XXII 29’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 56 (1984), pp. 97-100.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 179.
N. Litinas, 'P.Lond. III 1128: Sale of a Donkey’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 124 (1999), pp. 195-204 (p. 201).
W. C. Claytor, ‘Donkey Sales from the Grapheion of Kerkesoucha’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 194 (2015), pp. 201-208 (pp. 206, 208).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)