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Papyrus 632
- Record Id:
- 040-002105016
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002fa
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129019.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 632
- Title:
-
Sale of Land and Tax Receipt (P.Grenf. I 36, Chrest.Mitt. 155, P.Lond. III 632 descr., TM 1499)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract for the sale of some land located in the Pathyrite nome and drawn up in the office of the notary Paniscus before his representative. The buyer is Pakoibis and the seller Petosiris. The receipt for the payment of 1200 copper drachmas on account of the tax on sale is included. The banker was Apollonius.
Only few letters of the column containing the summary of the deed remain.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105016 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 632 : Sale of Land and Tax Receipt (P.Grenf. I 36, Chrest.Mitt. 155, P.Lond. III 632 descr., TM 1499) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0972]/040-002105016
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragments of varying size of a dark-brown papyrus, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of two columns survive; of the first only few letters remain. Upper and lower margin survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129019.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0106
- End Date:
- -0106
- Date Range:
- 16 February 106 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of various sizes; housed in a glass frame measuring 215 x 330 mm.
Script: Regular cursive hand, with some hooked strokes ('Hermias-hand'); uneven, thicker and rougher hand in the last four lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), or Krokodilopolis, 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 155
P.Grenf. I 36
P.Lond. III 632 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. 525.
B. P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and Other Greek Papyri Chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1896), pp. 67-68, no. 36.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxi, no. 632 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 168, no. 155.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 181.
E. van't Dack, ‘Coniecturae papyrologicae’, Studien zur Papyrologie und antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte Friedrich Oertel zum achtzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet (Bonn: R. Habelt 1964), pp. 61-67 (p. 65) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 37.
P.W. Pestman, Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte. Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXIII (Leiden: Brill 1985), p. 23, no. 119.
K. Vandorpe, S. Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ Archives. A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt (Collectanea Hellenistica 3) (Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale 2009), pp. 145-147, no. 43.
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. 71.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)