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Papyrus 623
- Record Id:
- 040-002105007
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002f1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058771172.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 623
- Title:
- Cession of a Plot of Land (P.Grenf. I 27, TM 129)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract from Krokodilopolis (Pathyrite nome) dated to the 11th Mecheir in the 8th year of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy IX, in which Sebtitis grants half an aroura of land to her daughter Naamsesis. The endorsement of the royal bank is mutilated, but the tax on the cession seems to have been 600 drachms. This text may be part of the archive of Pelaias son of Eunous alias Nechouthes, a family archive named after its last owner containing several documents of the family of Pelaias' mother.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105007 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 623 : Cession of a Plot of Land (P.Grenf. I 27, TM 129) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0581]/040-002105007
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Three columns almost fully preserved from a papyrus roll, written along the fibres on one side. The papyrus is mounted in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058771172.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0109
- End Date:
- -0109
- Date Range:
- 27 Feb 109 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 135 x 765 mm. Mounted in a glass frame measuring 195 x 815 mm.
Script: Small cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Krokodilopolis, Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Krokodilopolis, Pathyrite nome, Egypt (Archive of Pelaias son of Eunous alias Nechouthes?). 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:
- Chr.Mitt. 156
P.Grenf. I 27
P.Lond. III 623 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. 524.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and other Greek Papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 54-57, no. 27.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. XXI, no. 623 descr.
L. Mitteis, U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde II (Leipzig-Berlin: B. G. Teubner 1912), pp. 169-170, no. 156.
K. Vandorpe, S. Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ archives: a multicultural community in Hellenistic Egypt (Brussels: Publicatie van het Wetenschappelijk Comité Klassieke studies van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2009), pp. 148-158, no. 44 (p. 148).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)