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Papyrus 654
- Record Id:
- 040-002105039
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000310
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129199.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 654
- Title:
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Sale of a Tree (P.Grenf. II 16, Chrest.Mitt. 157, P.Lond. III 654 descr., TM 59)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract made at Pathyris for the sale of a sycamore tree, bought by Zmenous for the price of 1 talent and 4000 drachmas. The sellers are Patous and his sister Takmeis. Patous receives the money, but penalty applies should he fail to give his sister her share within the agreed time.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105039 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 654 : Sale of a Tree (P.Grenf. II 16, Chrest.Mitt. 157, P.Lond. III 654 descr., TM 59) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0986]/040-002105039
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two halves of a light-brown papyrus sheet, well preserved. On the front, writing runs across the fibres. There are 9 lines; line 7 is mutilated. All margins are extant and the blank space at the bottom measures c. 60 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129199.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0136
- End Date:
- -0136
- Date Range:
- 5 November 136 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 65 x 113 mm; lower fragment: 82 x 121 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 175 mm.
Script: Neat and small cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 654-666 by Edwyn Robert Bevan (b. 1870, d. 1943) in July 1896.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 157
P.Grenf. II 16
P.Lond. III 654 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), pp. 528-529.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), p. 33, no. 16.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiii, no. 654 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 177, no. 157.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 186.
P.W. Pestman, ‘Les archives privées de Pathyris à l'époque ptolémaïque. La famille de Pétéharsemtheus, fils de Panebkhounis’, in E. Boswinkel, P. W. Pestman, P. J. Sijpesteijn (eds.), Studia Papyrologica Varia. Pap. Lugd. Bat. XIV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1965), pp. 47-105.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 37.
G. Messeri-Savorelli, 'Lista degli agoranomi di età tolemaica', in R. Pintaudi (ed.), Miscellanea Papyrologica in memoria di H.C. Youtie (Pap. Flor. VII) (Firenze: Gonnelli 1980), pp. 185-271 (p. 186-187).
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt. Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic World (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), pp. 139-152.
M. Chauveau, L'Égypte au temps de Cléopâtre. 180-30 av. J.-C. (Paris: Hachette littératures 1997), pp. 219-222.
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. 163-189, no. 47.
S. Waebens, ‘Life Portraits: People and their Everyday Papers in a Bureaucratic Society’, in K. Vandorpe (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Chichester, West Sussex-Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), pp. 199-214 (pp. 202-205).
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. 8.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)