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Papyrus 790
- Record Id:
- 040-002105180
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000034
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463361.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 790
- Title:
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Registration of a Mortgage (P.Oxy. II 243, P.Lond. III 790 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 182, TM 20512)
- Scope & Content:
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Chaeremon, nominee of Claudius Antoninus, writes to the public notary (agoranomos) requesting the registration of a mortgage for Didymus on account of 1300 drachmas of silver that Dionysius alias Amois had borrowed from him. The property mortgaged is described in detail and consists of plots of land and a house near the Serapeum in Oxyrhynchus, which comprises a two-storied tower, the courtyard, a stone well, a gateway and passage, a hall and a chamber. The loan is to be repaid with interest. At the end are Chaeremon’s subscription, the bankers’ receipt acknowledging that the tax on sales and mortgages had been paid by Didymus, and the subscription of the banker Theon.
Writing unrelated to the text was added in some of the margins of the front, mostly by the same hand that penned the text on the verso, which is much effaced.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105180 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 790 : Registration of a Mortgage (P.Oxy. II 243, P.Lond. III 790 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 182, TM 20512) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0861]/040-002105180
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete but with abrasion and other surface damage throughout. Writing is on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The text on the back is much effaced. The text on the front is arranged in one column, and is rubbed in places; the left and upper margins were used to host further writing, unrelated to the main text. Modern annotations are visible on both sides, with the number in red referring to the edition in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463361.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0079
- End Date:
- 0079
- Date Range:
- 79
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 235 x 112 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 290 x 165 mm.
Script: Recto: Upright, detached hand of small size; three additional hands from line 44 for the subscriptions, thinner, larger and more cursive. Verso and margins of recto: very cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900. Of these, papyri 739-814 form part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 182
P.Lond. III 790 descr.
P.Oxy. II 243 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 440.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 190-193, no. 243.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxv, no. 790 descr.
L. Wenger, Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), p. 80.
F. Preisigke, Girowesen im griechischen Ägypten enthaltend Korngiro, Geldgiro, Giro-banknotariat, mit Einschluss des Archivwesens: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Verwaltungsdienstes im Altertume (Strassburg: 1910), pp. 307-308.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 194-196, no. 182.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 267-268, no. 156.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 128.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 234.
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte romaine, 30a-284’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995), pp. 133-173 (p. 152).
K. Maresch, Bronze und Silber: papyrologische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Währung im ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1996), p. 116.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘Lender, Borrower and banker in P.Yale I 65’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999), pp. 45-52 (p. 47).
A. Benaissa, ‘Sixteen Letters to Agoranomi from Late First Century Oxyrhynchus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 170 (2009), pp. 157-185 (pp. 170, 172 and passim).
M. Depauw, ‘Do Mothers Matter? The Emergence of Metronymics in Early Roman Egypt’, in T. V. Evans, D. Obbink (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 120-139 (p. 130).
D. P. Kehoe, D. M. Ratzan, U. Yiftach, Law and transaction costs in the ancient economy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2015), p. 167.
R. Mascellari, ‘Gli attributi del mese “corrente”’, Analecta Papyrologica 29 (2017), pp. 169-175 (p. 172).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)