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Papyrus 586
- Record Id:
- 040-002104968
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00028b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128667.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 586
- Title:
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Lease of Farm and Land (P.Petr. II 44, P.Lond. III 586 descr., TM 2902)
- Scope & Content:
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Seven-year lease of a farm and pumpkin ground from Dionysius, Demetrius and someone else to Metrodorus and Epicurus; the rent is 40 drachmas per arura. Penalties apply should either party not comply with the terms. With dating clause at the beginning.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104968 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 586 : Lease of Farm and Land (P.Petr. II 44, P.Lond. III 586 descr., TM 2902) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1017]/040-002104968
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments of a papyrus sheet which was reused for mummy cartonnage as soles, with surface damage throughout. Writing runs across the fibres on one side; the text breaks off at the bottom and to the right; between the left and the right fragments 4 letters are missing on average. Part of the left margin survives. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128667.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0241
- End Date:
- -0241
- Date Range:
- 7 April-6 May 241 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Left fragment: 231 x 65 mm; Right fragment: 204 x 90 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 220 mm.
Script: Large, upright hand, mostly detached, with few ligatures; additions above the line occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 486-603 by Henry Martyn Kennard (b. 1833, d. 1911) in May 1895. The papyri had been extracted from mummy cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 586 descr.
P.Petr. II 44
P.Petr. III 74b - 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. 517.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), pp.143-144, no. 44.
U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte I (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient 1899), p. 207.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part III (Dublin: The Academy House 1905), p 204, no. 74b.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xvii, no. 586 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 348.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 83.
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L. Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1983), p. 10.
Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung VIII. Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter 2001), p. 85, n. 51.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 159.
P. Heilporn, ‘Présence romaine en Égypte ptolémaïque’, in N. Barrandon, F. Kirbihler (eds.), Administrer les provinces de la République romaine (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2010), pp. 99-111 (n. 12).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)