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Papyrus 663
- Record Id:
- 040-002105049
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000319
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143129335.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 663
- Title:
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Repayment of a Loan (P.Grenf. II 30, P.Lond. III 663 descr., TM 74)
- Scope & Content:
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Document drawn up in the notarial office in Pathyris before Hermias, recording the repayment of a loan of two talents from Peteharsemtheus and his three brothers to another Peteharsemtheus, son of Almaphis, who had lent the money. With endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105049 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 663 : Repayment of a Loan (P.Grenf. II 30, P.Lond. III 663 descr., TM 74) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0995]/040-002105049
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, with few holes in the left portion, but well preserved as to the rest. The left edge is irregular. Writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The back bears two columns of 3 and 2 lines respectively, written in the upper half. On the front there is one column of 30 lines, the last of which is indented and separated by paragraphus and some blank space. All margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143129335.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0102
- End Date:
- -0102
- Date Range:
- 10 December 102 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 330 x 107 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 150 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright cursive hand, somewhat rough; exhibiting some serifs, usually left-pointing, at the end of uprights ('Hermias-hand'). 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 30
P.Lond. III 663 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. 531.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 54-55, no. 30.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiv, no. 663 descr.
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).
N. Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt. Case Studies in the Social History of the Hellenistic World (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1986), pp. 139-152.
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. 25, and passim.
M. Chauveau, L'Égypte au temps de Cléopâtre. 180-30 av. J.-C. (Paris: Hachette littératures 1997), pp. 219-222.
K. Vandorpe, ‘A Greek Register from Pathyris' Notarial Office. Loans and Sales from the Pathyrite and Latopolite Nomes’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 150 (2004), pp. 161-186 (p. 164, n. 9, and passim).
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. 95.
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. 65, n. 186).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)