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Papyrus 705
- Record Id:
- 040-002105092
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472061.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 705
- Title:
- Deed of Surety on Oath (P.Grenf. II 62, P.Lond. III 705 descr., TM 11364)
- Scope & Content:
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Statement on oath of Demetrius, son of Satyrus, addressed to the centurion Crenoleius Quintilianus, whereby Demetrius undertakes to be surety of Pasis, son of Apollonius, whom he shall produce whenever requested. With date at the end. The name of Geta was erased in the imperial oath but not in the date.
On the back there is a document of official nature, with some instrusctions and mentioning the most eminent Theodorus (unpublished).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105092 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 705 : Deed of Surety on Oath (P.Grenf. II 62, P.Lond. III 705 descr., TM 11364) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0399]/040-002105092
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darker by patches, almost complete but damaged along the sides and displaying some holes in the preserved portion; the back lacks a strip of fibres, which affects the text. Writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front bears 21 lines, with blank space between lines 16 and 17, which is indented, and between lines 17 and 18. Part of line 6 was erased. Traces of another column are visible at the bottom right margin. Two sheet-joins run along the side edges. Upper and lower margins are preserved. The back bears one column of 12 lines, lacking some letters at the beginning. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472061.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0211
- End Date:
- 0211
- Date Range:
- 5(?) April 211
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 231 x 129 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 285 x 180 mm.
Script: Recto: Lines 1-17: Thin upright cursive hand of medium size, neat and careful, with some elongated strokes; lines 18-21: Small, rapid cursive hand sloping to the right. Verso: Large, thin cursive hand, sloping to the right, somewhat rough and uneven.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 62
P.Lond. III 705 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. 537-538.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 97-98, no. 62.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 705 descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 189.
F. La Rosa, ‘L’ἘΓΓΥΗΤΗΣ della ΠΑΡΑΣΤΑΣΙΣ’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 13 (1961), pp. 67-74 (pp. 67, 69, and passim).
R. Alston, Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt: A Social History (London-New York: Routledge 1995), p. 90.
Z. M. Packman, ‘Regnal Formulas in Document Date and in the Imperial Oath’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 91 (1992), pp. 61–76 (p. 70).
S. Daris, ‘Documenti minori dell’esercito romano in Egitto’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 10.1 (1988), pp. 724-742 (p. 739) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 97.
N. Gonis, ‘On the Knowledge in Egypt of the Death of Severus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 137 (2001), pp. 223-224 (p. 223) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 81.
J. Whitehorne, ‘Petitions to the Centurion: a Question of Locality?’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 41 (2004), pp. 155-160, 161-169 (p. 166).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)