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Papyrus 671
- Record Id:
- 040-002105057
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000341
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462592.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 671
- Title:
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Loan of Money (P.Grenf. II 21, P.Lond. III 671 descr., TM 218)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up in the office of the notary Heliodorus in Pathyris, recording the loan of 2 talents and 2300 drachmas from the priest Psenimouthis to two brothers. The loan is to be repaid in the month of Pharmouthi, and penalty applies should the borrowers fail to pay it back within the agreed time. With summary on the back in Greek and Demotic.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105057 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 671 : Loan of Money (P.Grenf. II 21, P.Lond. III 671 descr., TM 218) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0365]/040-002105057
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments from the left half of a papyrus sheet, broken off to the right; with insect holes and breaks along the horizontal folds. Writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The back bears two lines, one in Demotic and one in Greek. On the front there is one column of 26 lines, which lack the right half, with the exception of line 24; the last line is indented and separated by paragraphus and some blank space. Upper, left and lower margins survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462592.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- -0113
- End Date:
- -0113
- Date Range:
- 29 December 113 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 244 x 106 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 295 x 160 mm.
Script: Neat and regular upright cursive hand of fair size, exhibiting some serifs.
- 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:
- P.Grenf. II 21
P.Lond. III 671 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. 532.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 38-39, no. 21.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxiv, no. 671 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 186.
P. W. Pestman, ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris II. Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 15-53 (pp. 38, 50).
P. W. Pestman, Chronologie égyptienne d'après les textes démotiques (332 av. J. C. – 453 ap. J.C.). (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XV) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1967), p. 67.
M. G. Raschke, ‘The Office of Agoranomos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, in E. Kiessling, H.-A. Rupprecht, Akten des XIII. internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Marburg/Lahn, 2.-6. August 1971 (München: C.H. Beck 1974), pp. 349-356 (p. 351).
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. 42, no. 49, with pl. 4.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 142.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)