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Papyrus 710
- Record Id:
- 040-002105097
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462773.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 710
- Title:
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Copy and Submission of Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 21, P.Grenf. II 70, Chrest.Mitt. 191, P.Lond. III 710 descr., TM 22627)
- Scope & Content:
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A copy of the deed contained in Papyrus 708 (P.Nekr. 11), made forty years later than the original, whereby Petosiris, funerary worker (nekrotaphos) of Hibis, grants Petechon of Kysis a quarter share of the funerary practice he owns in Kysis as a gift; with subscriptions at the end. The body of the document was written by Aurelius Isocrates, son of Magnus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105097 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 710 : Copy and Submission of Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 21, P.Grenf. II 70, Chrest.Mitt. 191, P.Lond. III 710 descr., TM 22627) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0404]/040-002105097
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, made out of two fragments; a third small fragment is housed in the Sackler Library, Oxford, and preserves the upper right corner, with the ends of the first three lines of the recto. Writing is on both sides along the fibres, with the back having a two-line docket. The left margin survives to 10 mm, the upper to 5 mm, the lower to 35-40 mm; no margin was left at the right. Five vertical folds are visible; the papyrus was folded from the right. It is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462773.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0287
- End Date:
- 0287
- Date Range:
- 16 August 287
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 160 x 163 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 210 x 220 mm.
Script: Proficient, somewhat irregular cursive hand; second hand in lines 19-20, larger and less rapid; third hand in lines 21-23, more detached and clumsy.
- 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:
- Chrest.Mitt. 191
P.Grenf. II 70
P.Lond. III 710 descr.
P.Nekr. 21 - 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. 108-109, no. 70.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 113-126 (p. 124).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 710.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 209-210, no. 191.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 190.
M. San Nicolò, J. Herrmann, Ägyptisches Vereinswesen zur Zeit der Ptolemäer und Römer: Die Vereinsarten (München: Beck 1972), pp. 99-100.
J. Quaegebeur, Le dieu égyptien Shaï dans la religion et l'onomastique (Leuven: Leuven U.P. 1975), p. 284.
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. 70-72, no. 21.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)