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Papyrus 709
- Record Id:
- 040-002105096
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462768.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 709
- Title:
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Receipt for Repayment of a Loan (P.Nekr. 17, P.Grenf. II 69, P.Lond. III 709 descr., TM 22626)
- Scope & Content:
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Copy of a receipt acknowledging the repayment of a loan of 1000 drachmas with accrued interest after eighteen years. The parties involved are the funerary worker (nekrotaphos) Petechon, son of the lender, Polydeuces surnamed Mersis, and Aurelia Senosiris, widow of the borrower Apollonius and daughter of Isidora, both from Kysis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105096 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 709 : Receipt for Repayment of a Loan (P.Nekr. 17, P.Grenf. II 69, P.Lond. III 709 descr., TM 22626) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0403]/040-002105096
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown sheet of papyrus, damaged at the top and bottom and defaced in places, and with a small detached scrap. Writing is on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank. Four vertical folds are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462768.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0265
- End Date:
- 0265
- Date Range:
- after 7 October 265
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 205 x 110 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 270 x 170 mm.
Script: Fluent semi-cursive hand with upright axis. Chi-rho monogram in the left margin, line 20.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kysis (Dush), 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:
- P.Grenf. II 69
P.Lond. III 709 descr.
P.Nekr. 17 - 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. 106-108, no. 69.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 709.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 190.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 38.
J. Quaegebeur, Le dieu égyptien Shaï dans la religion et l'onomastique (Leuven: Leuven U.P. 1975), p. 284.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 64.
M. Reddé, ‘Entre Afrique et Égypte. Les installations hydrauliques dans le désert et le prédésert à l’époque romaine’, in S. Guédon (ed.), Entre Afrique et Égypte: relations et échanges entre les espaces au sud de la Méditerranée à l’époque romaine (Bordeaux: Ausonius 2012), pp. 145-156 (p. 156).
R. S. Bagnall, The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.) (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2017), pp. 59-63, no. 17.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)