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Papyrus 708
- Record Id:
- 040-002105095
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462762.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 708
- Title:
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Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 11, P.Grenf. II 68, P.Lond. III 708 descr., TM 22625)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelius Petosiris, of Hibis, grants Aurelius Petechon of Kysis a quarter share of the funerary practice he owns in Kysis as a gift; with subscriptions at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105095 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 708 : Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 11, P.Grenf. II 68, P.Lond. III 708 descr., TM 22625) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0402]/040-002105095
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, darker by patches, somewhat damaged along the vertical folds. Writing is on one side along the fibres. The upper and left margins measure 15 mm, and the blank space at the bottom 40 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462762.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0247
- End Date:
- 0247
- Date Range:
- 22 December 247
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 199 x 169 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 250 x 225 mm.
Script: Body of the document: Fluent cursive. Different hands for the subscriptions: hand 2 in line 16, sloping cursive; hand 3 in line 21, slow and detached; hand 4 in line 22, small, rapid and cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hibis (El-Hiba), Western Desert, Egypt.
Provenance: Kysis (Dush), Western Desert, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 14 November 1896.
- Former External References:
- FIRA III 98
P.Grenf. II 68
P.Lond. III 708 descr.
P.Nekr. 11
Sel.Pap. I 50 - 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. 104-105, no. 68.
W. Otto, Priester und Tempel im hellenistischen Ägypten I (Leipzig: Teubner 1905), p. 109.
L. Wenger, Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), p. 105.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 708.
F. Hohmann, Zur Chronologie der Papyrusurkunden (Römische Kaiserzeit) (Berlin: F. Siemenroth 1911), p. 17.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 190.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 150-151, no. 50.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 324, no. 193.
L. Wenger, Die Quellen des römischen Rechts (Wien: A. Holzhausens Nfg. 1953), p. 803
R. Taubenschlag, The Law of Greco-Roman Egypt in the Light of the Papyri, 332 B.C. -640 A.D. (Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe 1955), p. 399-400, and passim.
M. Hässler, Die Bedeutung der Kyria Klausel in den Papyrusurkunden (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1960), pp. 77-78, 126.
M. Amelotti, Il testamento romano attraverso la prassi documentale I (le forme classiche di testamento) (Firenze: Le Monnier 1966), p. 73.
S. Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. Pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra 1968), pp. 305-307, no. 98.
M. San Nicolò, J. Herrmann, Ägyptisches Vereinswesen zur Zeit der Ptolemäer und Römer: Die Vereinsarten (München: Beck 1972), pp. 99-100.
V. G. Mandēlaras, The verb in the Greek non-literary papyri (Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sciences 1973), pp. 95, 175.
J. Quaegebeur, Le dieu égyptien Shaï dans la religion et l'onomastique (Leuven: Leuven U.P. 1975), p. 284.
H. J. Wolff, Das Recht der griechischen Papyri Ägyptens in der Zeit der Ptolemaeer und des Prinzipats II (München: Beck 1978), p. 286.
G. Wagner, Les oasis d'Égypte à l'époque grecque, romaine et byzantine d'après les documents grecs (recherches de papyrologie et d'épigraphie grecques) (Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 1987), pp. 225, 236 and 350.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 86.
R. S. Bagnall, D. Rathbone, Egypt from Alexander to the early Christians: an archaeological and historical guide (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum 2004), p. 260.
J. M. Ogereau, Paul's Koinonia with the Philippians: a Socio-Historical Investigation of a Pauline Economic Partnership (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014), p. 89.
R. S. Bagnall, The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.) (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2017), pp. 47-49, no. 11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)