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Papyrus 613
- Record Id:
- 040-002104997
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002c7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128805.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 613
- Title:
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Loan of Wheat (P.Dryton 16, P.Grenf. I 18, P.Lond. III 613 descr., TM 254)
- Scope & Content:
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A loan of 35 artabas of wheat with interest included, the lessor being Apollonia, Dryton’s wife, and the lessees her sister Herais and the husband Apollonius. Penalty applies if the borrowers fail to return the loan in time. The writer is Areius, representative of the notary Sarapinus. The docket with summary and date is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104997 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 613 : Loan of Wheat (P.Dryton 16, P.Grenf. I 18, P.Lond. III 613 descr., TM 254) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0746]/040-002104997
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved although damaged by holes along the horizontal and two vertical folds. Writing is on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. On the recto, all margins are extant, with the upper margin of 32 mm, the lower of 55 mm and the left of 20 mm; the right margin is minimal. A sheet-join runs across the fibres at c. 6 mm from the right edge. The verso has a docket arranged in two columns, the first with two lines and the second with three lines. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128805.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0131
- End Date:
- -0131
- Date Range:
- 4 January 131 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 300 x 115 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 345 x 165 mm.
Script: Neat upright hand, with a tendency to become smaller and compressed toward the ends of the lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-650 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.
- Former External References:
- P.Dryton 16
P.Grenf. I 18
P.Lond. III 613 descr. - 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. 522.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 38-41, no. 18.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xix, no. 613 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 180.
P. W. Pestman, ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris II Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 15-53 (pp. 30, 34).
M. G. Raschke, ‘The Office of Agoranomos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, in E. Kiessling, H.-A. Rupprecht, Akten des XIII. internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Marburg/Lahn, 2.-6. August 1971 (München: C.H. Beck 1974), pp. 349-356 (p. 350).
G. Messeri, ‘P.Grenf.I 19 + P.Amh.II 166’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 47 (1982), pp. 275-280 (pp. 276-277).
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), p. 85.
S. B. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990), pp. 109, 113.
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), pp. 149-153, no. 16.
J. D. Sosin, ‘Half again More’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 50 (2004), pp. 42-44.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)