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Papyrus 614
- Record Id:
- 040-002104998
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002c8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100120697203.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 614
- Title:
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Loan of Money (P.Dryton 17, P.Grenf. I 19, SB XVI 12716, P.Lond. III 614 descr., TM 255)
- Scope & Content:
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A loan of money with interest included, further portions of which are contained in two papyri housed in Cairo and New York. Apollonia, wife of Dryton, lends the money to Anicetus and his wife Nicaia. Anicetus also acts as the notary (agoranomos); the scribe is Areius. The back contains the docket. Additional notes in a different hand, mentioning Cephalon, are visible in the upper margin of the recto and the first column of the verso.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104998 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 614 : Loan of Money (P.Dryton 17, P.Grenf. I 19, SB XVI 12716, P.Lond. III 614 descr., TM 255) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0747]/040-002104998
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Three fragments of varying size of a papyrus sheet, the first two from the upper part and the third from the lower portion of the sheet. Other fragments of the same sheet are a papyrus in Cairo, inventoried as 10354, and a papyrus in New York, Piermont Morgan Library, inventoried as 166. Writing runs across the fibres on the recto; only the upper fragment bears writing on the back, with the text running along the fibres, upside down in relation to the text on the front. The fragments are housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100120697203.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0129
- End Date:
- -0129
- Date Range:
- 14 May 129 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments 1+2: 87 x 93 mm; fragment 3: 25 x 62 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 150 mm.
Script: body of the document: neat upright semi-cursive hand of Areius; the additional notes are in a small irregular cursive hand, presumably of Dryton.
- 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 17
P.Grenf. I 19
P.Lond. III 614 descr.
SB XVI 12716 - 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. 41-42, no. 18.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 614 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 180.
G. Messeri, ‘P.Grenf.I 19 + P.Amh.II 166’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 47 (1982), pp. 275-280.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XVI (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1985), pp. 321-322, no. 12716.
P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap. Lugd. Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), pp. 12-13.
S. B. Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1990), p. 117.
C. A. Ca’Lada, ‘Immigrant Women in Hellenistic Egypt’, in H. Melaerts, L. Mooren, Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte hellénistique, romaine et byzantine: actes du colloque international, Bruxelles-Leuven 27-29 novembre 1997 (Leuven: Peeters 2002), pp. 167-192 (p. 188).
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. 155-161, no. 17.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)