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Papyrus 657
- Record Id:
- 040-002105043
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000313
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469252.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 657
- Title:
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Sale of Land (P.Grenf. II 23a, P.Lond. III 657 descr., TM 67)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up in Krokodilopolis at the office of the notary Paniscus recording the sale of two plots of land for a total of three aruras and a half at the price of nine talents. The sellers are Taous, aged 48, and her two sisters, with Taous’ husband as a guardian, and the buyers are Peteharsemetheus, aged 36, and his three brothers. Descriptions of the parties and of the land are provided. With summary of the deed in column 1.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105043 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 657 : Sale of Land (P.Grenf. II 23a, P.Lond. III 657 descr., TM 67) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0989]/040-002105043
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus roll, complete and well preserved, displaying minor damage along the vertical folds and in the left edge; writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are three columns of varying height and width; the first is of 8 short lines; the second has 11 broad lines, with lines 3-11 being indented; the third has 4 broad lines, the last written in the middle of the column. The intercolumns between columns 1 and 2 and between columns 2 and 3 measure x mm and x mm respectively. Upper, lower and right margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469252.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0107
- End Date:
- -0107
- Date Range:
- 15 November 107 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 687 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 735 mm.
Script: Column 1: Rough and rapid cursive hand; Columns 2-3: Regular and neat cursive hand of medium size, somewhat thick, with some elongated strokes.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis, 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 23a
P.Lond. III 657 descr.
Sel.Pap. I 27 - 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. 529-530.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 43-44, no. 23a.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiii, no. 657 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 463.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 80-83, no. 27.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), no. 166.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)