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Papyrus 629

Record Id:

040-002105013

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002f7

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147472017.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 629

Title:

Record of Purchases (P.Grenf. I 33, P.Lond. III 629 descr., TM 260)

Scope & Content:

Record of various sales of land, purchased by Paesis son of Peteuris, dated from 105 to 103 BC.

Text across the fibres:

Lines 1-5: End of a contract; price paid: 1 talent.

Line 6-end: Sale of 1 ¼ aruras of land from Pachnoubis and his siblings, at the price of 2,800 drachmas.

Text along the fibres:

Sale of half arura of land from Tamnoubis, daughter of Philippus, acting with her guardian, at the price of 2,800 drachmas. The last three lines refer to the sale of Pachnoubis recorded on the other side.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105013

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 629 : Record of Purchases (P.Grenf. I 33, P.Lond. III 629 descr., TM 260)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1427]/040-002105013

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Papyrus sheet, lacking part of the top and bottom; with surface damage in places. Writing runs on both sides. The text across the fibres was written first and has 27 lines; the sheet was rotated 180 degrees to host writing on the other sides, which bears 29 lines along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0103

End Date:

-0103

Date Range:

After 1 November 103 BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 252 x 154 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 299 x 205 mm.

Script: Irregular cursive hand.

Custodial History:

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 33
P.Lond. III 629 descr.

Publications:

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. 62-65, no. 33.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 629 descr.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 181.

P. W. Pestman, ‘A Greek Testament from Pathyris (P. Lond. Inv. 2850)’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 55 (1969), pp. 129-160 (p. 146).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 141.

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. 206.

C. A. Láda, Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt (Leuven-Dudley, MA: Peeters 2002) pp. 23-25.

K. Vandorpe, ‘A Greek Register from Pathyris' Notarial Office. Loans and Sales from the Pathyrite and Latopolite Nomes’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 150 (2004), pp. 161-186 (p. 167, n. 21; p. 173).

J. de Jong, ‘Arabia, Arabs, and “Arabic” in Greek Documents from Egypt’, in S. Bouderbala et al. (eds.), New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and multilingual texts from early Islam (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2017), pp. 3-27 (pp. 11-12).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)