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Papyrus 679
- Record Id:
- 040-002105065
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000349
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462646.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 679
- Title:
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Sale of a Share of Priests’ Accommodation (P.Grenf. II 35, P.Lond. III 679 descr., TM 115)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract drawn up in Pathyris before Hermias, representative of the notary Paniscus, for the sale of a quarter of a pastophorion (accommodation of a priest) located in the temple in Pathyris at the price of 3000 drachmas. The sellers are two brothers of Harsiesis, priests in the temple, and the buyer Pakoibis, son of Patous. With Hermias' signature at the end. Dated to 1 February 98 BC.
A receipt issued by Pancrates, banker in Krokodilopolis, acknowledging the payment for the tax on sale, follows. It is dated to 13 February 98 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105065 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 679 : Sale of a Share of Priests’ Accommodation (P.Grenf. II 35, P.Lond. III 679 descr., TM 115) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0373]/040-002105065
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll made up of three sheets, well-preserved and almost complete, only lacking the bottom right corner and displaying some holes and minor surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front there is one wide column of 11 lines, under which there is a line, indented, and another small and narrow column of 6 lines. Margins survive. There are two sheet-joins running along the height of the roll. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462646.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0098
- End Date:
- -0098
- Date Range:
- February 98 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 154 x 448 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 470 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright cursive hand, slightly uneven (‘Hermias-hand’); rougher cursive hand in the column at the bottom right.
- 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 35
P.Lond. III 679 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. 534.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 59-60, no. 35.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxv, no. 679.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 186.
P. W. Pestman, ‘A proposito dei documenti di Pathyris I’, Aegyptus 43 (1963), pp. 10-14 (p. 12).
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: Brill 1965), p. 49.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 38.
E. Boswinkel, P. W. Pestman (eds.), Textes grecs, démotiques et bilingues (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XIX) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1978), p. 213.
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. 22 and passim.
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 (p. 188).
A. Passoni Dell'Acqua, ‘Ricerche sulla versione dei LXX e i papiri: I. Pastophorion’, Aegyptus 61 (1981), pp. 171-211 (pp. 181-182, 185, 188, 190-191).
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 251, no. 14b.
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte ptolémaïque’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998), pp. 165-202 (p. 194).
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. 123-125, no. 38.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 80.
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. 128.
M. Vierros, ‘Phraseological Variation in the Agoranomic Contracts from Pathyris’, in M. Leiwo, H. Halla-aho, M. Vierros (eds.), Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. XVII (Helsinki: Suomen Ateenan-Instituutin säätiö 2012), 43–56 (p. 52).
S. E. Thomas, 'The Pastophorion: "Priests' Houses" in Legal Texts from Ptolemaic Pathyris and Elsewhere in Egypt', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 99 (2013), pp. 155-169 (pp. 158-161).
S. E. Thomas, ‘The "Pastophorion" Revisited: Owners and Users of 'Priests' Houses' in Ptolemaic Pathyris and Elsewhere in Egypt’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 100 (2014), pp. 111-132 (pp. 112-113).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)