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Papyrus 658
- Record Id:
- 040-002105044
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000314
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129264.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 658
- Title:
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Loan of Wine (P.Grenf. II 24, P.Lond. III 658 descr., TM 68)
- Scope & Content:
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Deed drawn up in the office of the notary Paniscus at Krokodilopolis, in the Pathyrite nome, recording the loan of six jars of wine from Peteharsemtheus to Psemmenches, both of Pathyris; the wine is to be returned in Mesore, and its quality is guaranteed until 30 Athyr. Penalty applies if the conditions are not met.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105044 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 658 : Loan of Wine (P.Grenf. II 24, P.Lond. III 658 descr., TM 68) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0990]/040-002105044
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, written along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The back bears a three-line docket; on the front there is a column of 27 lines, the last of which is indented and separated by some blank space and paragraphus. All margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 70 mm. Litlle space was left blank also between lines 3 and 4. There is a sheet-join running along the height of the sheet in the right edge. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129264.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0105
- End Date:
- -0105
- Date Range:
- 1 February 105 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 301 x 107 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 160 mm.
Script: Small, regular cursive hand, upight, with some elongated and hooked strokes; occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines; lines display a slight inclination upwards. Verso: Rough and rapid cursive hand.
- 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 24
P.Lond. III 658 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. 530.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 44-45, no. 24.
F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), p. 40, pl. III.
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. 1b.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiii, no. 658 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.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt. Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic World (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), pp. 139-152.
G. Messeri-Savorelli, 'Lista degli agoranomi di età tolemaica', in R. Pintaudi (ed.), Miscellanea Papyrologica (Pap. Flor. VII) (Firenze: Gonnelli 1980), pp. 185-271 (pp. 220-232) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 142.
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1994), pp. 89-91, no. 10 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 96.
N. Kruit, ‘The Meaning of Various Words Related to Wine: Some New Interpretations’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 90 (1992), pp. 265-276 (p. 269, n. 14; pp. 270-271; p. 273, n. 28) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 80.
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.
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. 77.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)