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Papyrus 668
- Record Id:
- 040-002105054
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00031e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462559.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 668
- Title:
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Loan Agreement (P.Grenf. II 17, Chrest.Mitt. 138, P.Lond. III 668 descr., TM 60)
- Scope & Content:
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Patous, son of Patous, acknowledges the loan of an iron cone from his sister Takmeis. Should he fail to return it whenever requested, he shall pay the value of it. Written by Dryton, son of Pamphilus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105054 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 668 : Loan Agreement (P.Grenf. II 17, Chrest.Mitt. 138, P.Lond. III 668 descr., TM 60) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0362]/040-002105054
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the top; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 11 lines, with a speck of ink at the top and additional traces in the lower edge. Left and lower margins survive, no margin was left to the right. A sheet-join is visible in the left edge, running along the height of the sheet. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462559.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0136
- End Date:
- -0136
- Date Range:
- 1 February 136 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 135 x 136 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring190 x 205 mm.
Script: Thin, regular cursive hand; lines incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 667-681 from David George Hogarth (b. 1862, d. 1927) in July 1896.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 138
P.Grenf. II 17
P.Lond. III 668 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), pp. 531-532.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), p. 34, no. 17.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiv, no. 668 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 154, no. 138.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 186.
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).
K. Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten 2002), Appendix A, pl. xxiv = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 80.
K. Vandorpe, S. Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ Archives. A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt (CollectaneaHellenistica 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).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)