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Papyrus 707
- Record Id:
- 040-002105094
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462756.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 707
- Title:
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Contract for the Hire of Two Dancers (P.Grenf. II 67, Chrest.Wilck. 497, P.Lond. III 707 descr., TM 11366)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelius Asclas, president of the village council of Bakchias, wants to hire from Aurelius Theon two female dancers, who are to perform for ten days and will receive 36 drachmas per day besides some goods in kind and three donkeys for their commute. With dating clause at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105094 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 707 : Contract for the Hire of Two Dancers (P.Grenf. II 67, Chrest.Wilck. 497, P.Lond. III 707 descr., TM 11366) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0401]/040-002105094
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, incomplete, lacking part of the left portion and damaged by insect holes, especially along the vertical folds; minor abrasion affects the lower portion of the sheet. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There is one column of 27 lines, many of which lack the beginnings. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462756.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0237
- End Date:
- 0237
- Date Range:
- 6 August 237
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 207 x 91 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 140 mm.
Script: Thick, large, uneven and rapid cursive hand, somewhat irregular in size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, 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:
- Chrest.Wilck. 497
P.Grenf. II 67
P.Lond. III 707 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. 538.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 101-103, no. 67.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 122-177 (p. 154).
U. Wilcken, ‘Zu P. Grenfell I und II’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 119-126 (p. 124).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 707 descr.
G. Milligan, Selections from the Greek Papyri (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1910, repr. 1912, 1927), pp. 107-110, no. 45.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 575-576, no. 497.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 190.
W. L. Westermann, ‘Entertainment in the Villages of Graeco-Roman Egypt’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18 (1932), pp. 16-27 (p. 18, and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 72.
M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp. 36-37, no. 22.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 46.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 143.
F. Perpillou-Thomas, Fêtes d’Égypte ptolémaïque et romaine d'après la documentation papyrologique grecque (Louvanii: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1993), pp. 274-275.
D. Hagedorn, K. A. Worp, ‘Das Wandeljahr im römischen Ägypten’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 104 (1994), pp. 243–255 (p. 251) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 80.
G. Tedeschi, ‘Lo spettacolo in età ellenistica e tardo antica nella documentazione epigrafica e papiracea’, Papyrologica Lupiensia 11 (2002), pp. 87-187 (pp. 164-165, no. 14).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 81.
G. Tedeschi, Intrattenimenti e spettacoli nell'Egitto ellenistico-romano (Trieste: EUT 2011), pp. 74-75, no. 15.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)