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Papyrus 715
- Record Id:
- 040-002105102
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003ad
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462808.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 715
- Title:
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Receipt for Payment of Wages of a Wet-Nurse (P.Nekr. 40, P.Grenf. II 75, P.Lond. III 715 descr., TM 22631)
- Scope & Content:
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Tapaous, funerary-worker (nekrotaphe) of the city of Mothis, acknowledges that she has received from Casianus, funerary-worker (nekrotaphos) of Kysis, maintenance, clothing allowance and twenty talents as payment for a quarter of her service as a wet-nurse. Aurelius Philosarapis wrote on her behalf.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105102 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 715 : Receipt for Payment of Wages of a Wet-Nurse (P.Nekr. 40, P.Grenf. II 75, P.Lond. III 715 descr., TM 22631) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0409]/040-002105102
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary sheet of papyrus, damaged especially along the vertical folds and darker by patches. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The left margin measures 10 mm, the upper 5 mm, and the blank space at the bottom 60 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_100147462808.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0308
- End Date:
- 0308
- Date Range:
- 6 January 308
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 264 x 128 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 180 mm.
Script: Slanting hand with detached letters.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Mothis (Mut), Oasis Magna, 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 75
P.Lond. III 715 descr.
P.Nekr. 40 - 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. 118-119, no. 75.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 715.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 191.
M. M. Masciadri, O. Montevecchi, Corpus Papyrorum Graecarum I. Contratti di baliatico (Milano: 1984), no. 40.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 143.
A. Chastagnol, I. Tantillo, Aspects de l'antiquité tardive (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider 1994), p. 390.
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. 113-116, no. 40.
M. Parca, ‘The Wet Nurses of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt’, Illinois Classical Studies 42 (2017), pp. 203-226 (pp. 208, 222).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)