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Papyrus 667
- Record Id:
- 040-002105053
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00031d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058771190.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 667
- Title:
- Sale of Land (P.Grenf. II 15, TM 274)
- Scope & Content:
-
Sale by Tagos, daughter of Achilles, and her brother Ammonius to Psenthotes, son of Celes, one of the ibis-buriers of Pathyris, of two twelfths of a property on an island in the lower toparchy of the Latopolite nome. The papyrus begins with a list of the eponymous priesthoods; the third column, written in a different hand, contains the docket of the bank certifying that the tax on sales had been paid. Dated at Latopolis, in the office of the agoranomus Apollonius, the 25th of Thoth in the 32nd year of Ptolemy VIII.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105053 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 667 : Sale of Land (P.Grenf. II 15, TM 274) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0361]/040-002105053
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragments from a papyrus roll written on one side along the fibres, preserving three columns, the first and the third being slightly mutilated. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058771190.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0139
- End Date:
- -0139
- Date Range:
- 21 October 139 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 155 x 890 mm. Mounted in a glass frame measuring 205 x 945 mm.
Script: Two medium-sized hands, the first being more regular and neat; the second hand is from the beginning to the end of column 3.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Latopolis (Esna), Latopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Latopolis (Esna), Latopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 667-681 from David George Hogarth (b. 1862, d. 1927) on 25 July 1896.
- Former External References:
- Chr.Wilck. 106
P.Grenf. II 15
P.Lond. III 667 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. 30-33, no. 15.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1907), p. XXIV, no. 667 descr.
L. Mitteis, U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde I.2 (Leipzig-Berlin: B. Teubner 1912), pp. 136-137 no. 106.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1995), p. 96.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)