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Papyrus 619
- Record Id:
- 040-002105003
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002cd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128883.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 619
- Title:
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Loan of Wheat (P.Dryton 25, P.Grenf. I 23, P.Lond. III 619 descr., TM 215)
- Scope & Content:
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A loan of 25 artabas of wheat from Caies to Harpaesis. If the latter fails to return it within the agreed time, penalty applies. The summary is on the back. The scribe is Areius, although his name is lost.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105003 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 619 : Loan of Wheat (P.Dryton 25, P.Grenf. I 23, P.Lond. III 619 descr., TM 215) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0742]/040-002105003
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, fully preserved, written on both sides along the fibres, the back having a two-line docket. All margins are extant, the upper being of 36 mm, the left of 23 mm, and the others being minimal. The papyrus was rolled horizontally. It is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128883.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0117
- End Date:
- -0117
- Date Range:
- 4 January 117 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 203 x 825 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 140 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand, somewhat irregular, with sequences of letters written more cursively; hand of Areius.
- 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 25
P.Grenf. I 23
P.Lond. III 619 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. 49-50, no. 23.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 619 descr.
P. W. Pestman, ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris II Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 15-53 (pp. 31, 35).
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. 195-197, no. 25.
J. D. Sosin, ‘Half again More’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 50 (2004), pp. 42-44.
M. Vierros, ‘Greek or Egyptian? The Language Choice in Ptolemaic Documents from Pathyris’, in A. Delattre, P.Heilporn (eds.), Et maintenant ce ne sont plus que des villages: Thèbes et sa région aux époques hellénistiques, romaine et byzantine. Actes du colloque tenu à Bruxelles, déc. 2005 (Bruxelles: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth 2008), pp. 73-86 (p. 81).
S. Gambetti, The Alexandrian riots of 38 C.E. and the persecution of the Jews: a historical reconstruction (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2009), p. 289.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)