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Papyrus 675
- Record Id:
- 040-002105061
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000345
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462621.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 675
- Title:
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Contract for the Sale of Land and Bank Receipt (P.Grenf. II 32, P.Lond. III 675 descr., TM 236)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up in Pathyris before Hermias, agent of the notary Paniscus, for the sale of one arura of corn land belonging to Peteharsemtheus and his three brothers at the price of two talents. The seller is Peteharsemtheus, and the buyers are Hetpesuchus and his brothers. Dated to 1 May 101 BC.
The receipt of Paniscus, banker in Krokodilopolis in the Pathyrite nome, acknowledging the payment for the tax on sale, follows (line 13-end). It is dated to 11 September 101 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105061 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 675 : Contract for the Sale of Land and Bank Receipt (P.Grenf. II 32, P.Lond. III 675 descr., TM 236) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0369]/040-002105061
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus roll, complete and well-preserved, made of four sheets; the first sheet displays vertical fibres and was left blank; the other sheets, with horizontal fibres, bear writing along the fibres; the back is blank. There is one wide column of 15 lines, complete; blank space separates lines 3 and 4,10 and 11, and 14 and 15. All margins are extant; three sheet-joins are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0101
- End Date:
- -0101
- Date Range:
- 101 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 377 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 430 mm.
Script: Fluid, thin, upright cursive hand, slightly uneven, exhibiting some serifs ('Hermias-hand'); different cursive hand from line 12 to end.
- 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 32
P.Lond. III 675 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. 533.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 56-57, no. 32.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxv, no. 675 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 (p. 43).
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. 67).
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).
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), pp. 20, 49.
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. 206.
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).
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. 99.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)