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Papyrus 662
- Record Id:
- 040-002105048
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000318
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469258.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 662
- Title:
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Sale Contract (Cession of Purchase) (P.Grenf. II 28. P.Lond. III 662 descr., TM 72)
- Scope & Content:
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Document drawn up by Hermias in the notarial office in Pathyris, recording the sale of the fourth part of a vineyard and the fifth part of some corn-land, from Sennesis, with her husband as a guardian, to Peteharsemtheus. Sennesis had bought the plots of land from him two years before (recorded in P.Lisp. I 1). With endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105048 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 662 : Sale Contract (Cession of Purchase) (P.Grenf. II 28. P.Lond. III 662 descr., TM 72) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0994]/040-002105048
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, but with major breaks along a vertical fold and in the upper left portion. Writing runs along the fibres on both sides; on the back there are two columns of two lines each, located in the lower left part; the front bears one column of 22 lines, of which the last is indented and separated by paragraphus and some blank space. All margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 90 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469258.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0103
- End Date:
- -0103
- Date Range:
- 11 December 103 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 313 x 167 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 365 x 215 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright cursive hand, thicker in places and somewhat irregular in size with some left-pointing serifs at the end of uprights.
- 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 28
P.Lond. III 662 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. 51-52, no. 28.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiv, no. 662 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.
P. W. Pestman, ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris II. Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 15-53 (p. 46).
P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap. Lugd. Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), p. 50.
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt. Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic World (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), pp. 139-152.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 142.
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. 205, and passim.
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).
J. L. Alonso, ‘One en pistei, guarantee sales, and title-transfer security in the papyri’, in D. F. Leão, G. Tür (eds.), Symposion 2015. Conferências sobre a História do Direito grego e helenístico (Coimbra, 1–4 Setembro 2015)/Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Coimbra, 1.–4. September 2015) (Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2016), pp. 121-192 (p. 136, n. 68; p. 164, and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)