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Papyrus 483
- Record Id:
- 040-002104854
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001b7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468713.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 483
- Title:
- Lease of Land (P.Lond. II 483, TM 19997)
- Scope & Content:
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Perpetual lease (emphyteusis) of arable and uncultivated land between Menas, acting on behalf of the monastery of Abba Patois, and Aurelius Ioannes, son of Phoebammon and Hypateia. Details about the rent and the tenant’s rights are provided. With signatures of the parties and of four witnesses at the end, followed by the subscription of the notary Phoebammon.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104854 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 483 : Lease of Land (P.Lond. II 483, TM 19997) - Contains:
- Papyrus 483(1) : Part 1 of the lease of land
Papyrus 483(2) : Part 2 of the lease of land
Papyrus 483(3) : Part 3 of the lease of land
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Papyrus 483 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0352]/040-002104854
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll of fine quality and light colour, mounted on cardboard in three glass frames, named Papyrus 483(1), Papyrus 483(2), and Papyrus 483(3).
Writing runs on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The first sheet of the roll displays horizontal fibres. There is one column of 104 lines, complete, with all margins extant. The right margin is minimal. Sheet-joins are visible throughout.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0615
- End Date:
- 0616
- Date Range:
- 5 August 615 or 616
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size:, measuring 540 x 363 mm, 530 x 364 mm and 557 x 364 mm; housed in three glass frames named Papyrus 483(1), Papyrus 483(2), and Papyrus 483(3), measuring 585 x 410 mm.
Script: Fluent, large cursive hand sloping to the right, rich in ligatures and with some elongated strokes; six different hands for the subscriptions at the end. Flourishes in the notarial subscription.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Apollonopolites Heptakomias, Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased from A. Dingli on 11 May 1895.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 483
- 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. 498.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum, 1898), pp. 323-329, no. 483, with pll. 112-116.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 270.
H. Comfort, ‘Emphyteusis Among the Papyri’, Aegyptus 17 (1937), pp. 3-24.
A. Bataille, Les Papyrus (Paris: Les Presses Universitaires, 1955), pp. 53-54, with pl. XII.
H. Cadell, R. Rémondon, ‘Sens et emplois de τὸ ὄρος dans les documents papyrologiques’, Revue des Études Grecques 80 (1967), pp. 343-349 (pp. 345-346).
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri I (Stuttgart: A. Hierseman, 1967), p. 116; no. 56, pl. 35; no. 40, pl. 63.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill ,1976), p. 62.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986), p. 86.
Z. M. Packman, ‘Regnal formulas in document date and in the imperial oath’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 91 (1992), pp. 61-76 (p. 76).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 179.
C. Zuckerman, ‘La formule de datation du SB VI 8986 et son témoignage sur la succession d'Héraclius’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 25 (1995), pp. 187-201 (pp. 195-210).
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), p. 88, n. 1.
M. F. Hendy, Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy C.300-1450 (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 349.
F. Mitthof, ‘Pacht Von Getreideland Und Neupflanzung Von Wein’, in F. A. J. Hoogendijk, B. P. Muhs (eds.), Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008), pp. 265-278 (p. 277, 22 n.).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)