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Papyrus 724
- Record Id:
- 040-002105111
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003b6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462899.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 724
- Title:
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Fragment of a Contract (P.Grenf. II 85, P.Lond. III 724 descr., TM 41304)
- Scope & Content:
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Beginning of a contract, of which the dating clause and the opening of the deed survive. One of the parties was a woman named Aurelia Mannous, of Arsinoe.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105111 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 724 : Fragment of a Contract (P.Grenf. II 85, P.Lond. III 724 descr., TM 41304) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0418]/040-002105111
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and right, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The beginnings of 5 lines from the top of a column remain; left and upper margins survive in the preserved portion. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462899.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0536
- End Date:
- 0536
- Date Range:
- 21 June 536
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 69 x 114 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 125 x 165mm.
Script: Lines 1-2: Large cursive hand, sloping to the right, with some elongated strokes; line 3-end: Thin, upright cursive hand, neat and proficient.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt.
Provenance: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 85
P.Lond. III 724 descr. - 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. 541.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), p. 134, no. 85.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxviii, no. 724 descr.
P. J. Sijpesteijn and K. A. Worp, ‘Chronological Notes’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 26 (1977), pp. 267-286 (p. 279).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 63.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 87.
N. Gonis, ‘Consular Epithets and Regionalism in Sixth-Century Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152 (2005), pp. 183-186 (p. 184).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)