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Papyrus 714
- Record Id:
- 040-002105101
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003ac
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462802.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 714
- Title:
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Sale of a Camel (P.Nekr. 32, P.Grenf. II 74, P.Lond. III 714 descr., TM 22630)
- Scope & Content:
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Sale of a white female camel, purchased for nine talents by Aurelius Apianus, funerary worker (exopylites) of Kysis, from Aurelius Heron, cavalryman stationed in the village of Tentyra. With Heron’s subscription at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105101 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 714 : Sale of a Camel (P.Nekr. 32, P.Grenf. II 74, P.Lond. III 714 descr., TM 22630) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0408]/040-002105101
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus sheet, damaged along the vertical folds. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Four vertical folds and one horizontal are visible. Left, upper and lower margins measure 20 mm; the right margin is minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462802.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0302
- End Date:
- 0302
- Date Range:
- 27 April 302
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 223 x 163 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 270 x 210 mm.
Script: Experienced, but somewhat irregular cursive hand; second hand, unpractised, from line 23 to the end for the subscription.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tentyris (Dendera), 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 74
P.Lond. III 714 descr.
P.Nekr. 32 - 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. 116-118, no. 74.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 714.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 191.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 71.
R. S. Bagnall, P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Currency in the Fourth Century and the Date of CPR V 26’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 24 (1977), pp. 111-124 (p. 116).
R. S. Bagnall, Currency and inflation in fourth century Egypt (Chico, CA.: Scholars Press 1985), p. 68.
C. Boutantin, Terres cuites et culte domestique: bestiaire de l’Égypte gréco-romaine (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2014), p. 295.
A. Ricciardetto, ‘Marquage et soins vétérinaires appliqués aux camélidés d’après la documentation papyrologique grecque d’Égypte’, Pallas 101 (2016), pp. 33-51 (p. 50, no. 34, and passim).
R. S. Bagnall, The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.) (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2017), pp. 94-97, no. 32.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)