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Papyrus 711
- Record Id:
- 040-002105098
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003a9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462785.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 711
- Title:
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Mandate to Register a Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 10, P.Grenf. II 71, Chrest.Mitt. 190, P.Lond. III 711 descr., TM 22628)
- Scope & Content:
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A mandate from two brothers from different mothers, Petosiris and Petechon, sons of Petechon, funerary workers (nekrotaphoi), to Aurelius Marianus, who is to sail to Alexandria to register a deed of gift executed for them by their father. The deed is then enclosed. The possessions, equally divided between the brothers, include shares of wells, hunting grounds, funerary practices in various villages, and house lots. The body of the deed was written by Aurelius Basileides alias Sarapodorus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105098 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 711 : Mandate to Register a Deed of Gift (P.Nekr. 10, P.Grenf. II 71, Chrest.Mitt. 190, P.Lond. III 711 descr., TM 22628) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0405]/040-002105098
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll, light-brown by patches, damaged by holes throughout and defaced in places. Writing is on one side along the fibres; portions of two columns survive, with the second being better preserved. The intercolumn measures 10 mm; the left margin 30 mm and no margin was left to the right; the upper and lower margins do not survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462785.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0244
- End Date:
- 0244
- Date Range:
- 9 September 244
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 180 x 382 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 245 x 445 mm.
Script: Thick, practised cursive hand, with a slight slant to the right.
- 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. 190
P.Grenf. II 71
P.Lond. III 711 descr.
P.Nekr. 10 - 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. 539.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 110-114, no. 71.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvii, no. 711.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 207-209, no. 190.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 190.
M. Amelotti, Il testamento romano attraverso la prassi documentale I (le forme classiche di testamento) (Firenze: Le Monnier 1966), no. 20.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 38.
M. San Nicolò, J. Herrmann, Ägyptisches Vereinswesen zur Zeit der Ptolemäer und Römer: Die Vereinsarten (München: Beck 1972), p. 99.
F. Dunand, ‘Les nécrotaphes de Kysis’, Cahiers de Recherches de l’Institut de Papyrologie et d’Égyptologie de Lille 7 (1985), pp. 117-127 (p. 120).
T. Derda, ‘Necropolis Workers in Graeco-Roman Egypt in the light of the Greek papyri’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 21 (1991), pp. 13-36 (pp. 30-31).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 97.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘A Mandate from the Great Oasis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997), pp. 149-151 (pp. 149, 151).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 87.
R. S. Bagnall, The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.) (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2017), pp. 41-47, no. 10.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)