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Papyrus 794
- Record Id:
- 040-002105184
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000038
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463384.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 794
- Title:
- Contract of Apprenticeship (P.Oxy. II 275, P.Lond. III 794 descr., TM 20546)
- Scope & Content:
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A contract whereby Tryphon, of Oxyrhynchus, apprentices his son Thoonis to Ptolemaeus, weaver of Oxyrhynchus, for the period of one year. Tryphon shall cover his son’s expenses, but Ptolemaeus shall pay 5 drachmas per month and 12 drachmas on account of clothing at the end of the contract. Penalty fees apply to both parties if the boy does not work for the full period and if he is not instructed properly. With subscription of Ptolemaeus written by Zoilus on his behalf as he is illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105184 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 794 : Contract of Apprenticeship (P.Oxy. II 275, P.Lond. III 794 descr., TM 20546) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0859]/040-002105184
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, complete, with few insect holes along the folds. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The text is complete and consists of 46 lines; lines 37-46 are indented. There is little surface damage occasionally. All margins are extant, with the blank space at the bottom measuring 135 mm. No margin was left to the right. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463384.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0066
- End Date:
- 0066
- Date Range:
- 18 September 66
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 379 x 97 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 435 x 155 mm.
Script: Regular and neat rounded hand, occasionally smaller in places and often with detached letters; different hand from line 37, rough and cursive.
- 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.Wilck. 324
Jur.Pap. 42
P.Lond. III 794 descr.
P.Oxy. II 275
Sel.Pap. I 13 - 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, Vol. II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 262-264, no. 275.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxv, no. 794 descr.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 381-382, no. 324.
P. M. Meyer, Juristische Papyri (Erklärung von Urkunden zur Einführung in die juristische Papyruskunde) (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), pp. 136-138, no. 42.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. , no. 13.
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 69-70.
M. V. Biscottini, ‘L'archivio di Tryphon tessitore di Oxyrhynchos’, Aegyptus 46 (1966), pp. 186-292 (pp. 274-277, no. 38).
M. Vandoni, Testi per il corso di papirologia: i documenti di Trifone (dai papiri di Ossirinco) (Milano: Cisalpino Goliardica 1974), no. 24.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 96.
P. Petit, Le premier siècle de notre ère (Paris: A. Colin 1968), no. 87.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 179.
H. Perdicoyianni-Paleologou, ‘Les contrats d'apprentissage en provenance d'Oxyrhynchos’, L'Antiquité Classique 68 (1999), pp. 149-169.
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. 128).
K. Vandorpe, A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Chichester, West Sussex-Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), pp. 207, 280.
K. Verboven, Ch. Laes, Work, labour, and professions in the Roman world (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2016), p. 220.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)