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Papyrus 621
- Record Id:
- 040-002105005
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002cf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143128924.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 621
- Title:
-
Sale of Land (P.Grenf. I 25, P.Lond. III 621 descr., TM 48346)
- Scope & Content:
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Agreement for the sale of an empty plot of land, drawn up in the office of the notary Heliodorus in Pathyris. The sellers are the priestess Naomsesis and her husband Stotoetis, priest of Suchus and Aphrodite, and the buyer is Sensuchus, son of Nechutes.
Column 1: Summary of the deed.
Column 2: Dating clause listing the first ten Ptolemies and opening of the deed.
The third column is lost.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105005 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 621 : Sale of Land (P.Grenf. I 25, P.Lond. III 621 descr., TM 48346) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0983]/040-002105005
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll, broken off to the right, damaged by few holes, but otherwise well preserved. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Two columns of varying height remain, the first having five complete lines; the second comprises twelve lines, the last three of which are indented; they all lack an average of four letters at the end. The third column is lost. Upper and lower margins are extant; no margin was left to the left. A sheet-join running across the fibres and along the height of the sheet is visible in the middle. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143128924.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0114
- End Date:
- -0114
- Date Range:
- 12 May 114 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 150 x 363 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 410 mm.
Script: Column 1: Rapid cursive hand of small size; Column 2: Larger and less cursive hand, with some hooked uprights.
- 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.Grenf. I 25
P.Lond. III 621 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. 51-53, no. 25.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xx, no. 621 descr.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 544-559 (p. 559).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 180.
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. 34.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 62.
M. Vierros, Bilingual notaries in Hellenistic Egypt: a study of Greek as a second language (Collectanea Hellenistica 5) (Brussel: Publikatie van het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2012), no. 31.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)