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Papyrus 618
- Record Id:
- 040-002105002
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002cc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128870.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 618
- Title:
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Acknowledgment of Money Payments (P.Grenf. I 22, P.Lond. III 618 descr., TM 259)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt issued by Moschion, acknowledging two payments of 10 talents each made by Peteharsentheus for the offices of the district and village scribes, and a payment of 30 drachmas as price for 150 artabas of wheat. The total of 50 talents is given at the end. The date follows.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105002 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 618 : Acknowledgment of Money Payments (P.Grenf. I 22, P.Lond. III 618 descr., TM 259) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0981]/040-002105002
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with minor damage in the lower portion, but otherwise well preserved. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 15 lines, the last of which is mutilated. Upper and side margins are extant. Horizontal folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128870.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0118
- End Date:
- -0118
- Date Range:
- 21 November 118 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 190 x 98 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 150 mm.
Script: Neat and regular upright hand, carefully executed, with some ligatures; uprights tend to have serifs.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Upper 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.Grenf. I 22
P.Lond. III 618 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. 523.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and Other Greek Papyri Chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 48-49, no. 22.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 618 descr.
G. Messeri-Savorelli, 'Lista degli agoranomi di età tolemaica', in R. Pintaudi (ed.), Miscellanea Papyrologica in memoria di H.C. Youtie (Pap. Flor. VII) (Firenze: Gonnelli 1980), pp. 185-271 (pp. 186-187).
K. Maresch, Bronze und Silber: papyrologische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Währung im ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdt. Verl. 1996), p. 182.
S. von Reden, Money in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010), p. 202.
S. von Reden, ‘Wheat Prices in Ptolemaic Egypt’, in H. D. Baker, M. Jursa (eds.), Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History. Methodology and Practice (Oxford-Philadelphia: Oxbow Book 2014) pp. 260-288 (p. 282).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)