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Papyrus 655
- Record Id:
- 040-002105040
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000311
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129226.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 655
- Title:
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Loan of Money (P.Grenf. II 18, P.Lond. III 655 descr., TM 61)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up in the notarial office of Pathyris, recording a three-month loan of 5600 drachmas with no interest from Thoteus to Totoes and his wife Takmeis. Penalty applies should the borrowers fail to repay the loan within the agreed time.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105040 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 655 : Loan of Money (P.Grenf. II 18, P.Lond. III 655 descr., TM 61) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0987]/040-002105040
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, almost complete, damaged by holes especially in the left portion; otherwise well preserved. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 28 lines, the last of which is indented and separated by some blank space. All margins are extant, with the right being irregular and minimal. The blank space at the bottom measures 85 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129226.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0127
- End Date:
- -0127
- Date Range:
- 21 October 127 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 282 x 127 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 340 x 180 mm.
Script: Large, upright hand, with some sequences of letters more cursively written; lines are slightly uneven.
- 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:
- P.Grenf. II 18
P.Lond. III 655 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. 529.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 34-36, no. 18.
E. M. Thompson, G. F. Warner, F. G. Kenyon, J. P. Gilson, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts First series, vol. 1 (London: Photographed and printed by H. Hart at the Oxford University Press 1903), pl. 1a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiii, no. 655 descr.
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.
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 (pp. 186-187).
G. Messeri, ‘P.Grenf.I 19 + P.Amh.II 166’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 47 (1982), pp. 275-280 (pp. 276-277).
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. 16.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)