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Papyrus 795
- Record Id:
- 040-002105185
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000039
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463394.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 795
- Title:
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Lease of a Mill (P.Oxy. II 278, P.Lond. III 795 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 165, TM 20549)
- Scope & Content:
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Lease of a mill for a period of seven months, the lessor being Isidorus and the lessee Heracleius. The rent is of two drachmas and three obols per month. The mill shall be returned in the same condition as it was when received, or else a value of 100 drachmas shall be paid by the lessee; for any delay in returning it, a rent of 1.5 times should be paid. With date and subscription of Heracleius, who agrees to the terms, written by Dionysius on his behalf as he is illiterate. On the back is the docket.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105185 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 795 : Lease of a Mill (P.Oxy. II 278, P.Lond. III 795 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 165, TM 20549) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0858]/040-002105185
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, badly damaged at the top and with insect holes located especially along the vertical folds. Writing is on both sides along the fibres, the back having a two-line docket. The front contains one column of 41 lines in two hands. Left and lower margins measure 20 mm on average and 50 mm respectively; no margin was left to the right. Modern annotations are visible on either side, with the number in red referring to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0017
- End Date:
- 0017
- Date Range:
- 26 January 17
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 344 x 119 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 410 x 175 mm.
Script: Fair-sized, thin, mostly detached hand with some ligatures, sharing features with contemporary informal bookhands; letters are upright and often oblong, and verticals occasionally display serifs at their ends. From line 30 to the end there is a second hand, more cursive, with a very slight slant to the right and overall bilinear.
- 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. 165
P.Lond. III 795 descr.
P.Oxy. II 278 - 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. 267-269, no. 278.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxv, no. 797 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), p. 177, no. 165.
E. M. Thomspon, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 162, facs. 27.
F. Eakin, ‘Aorists and Perfects in First-Century Papyri’, The American Journal of Theology 20 (1916), pp. 266-273 (p. 270).
S. von Bolla-Kotek, Untersuchungen zur Tiermiete und Viehpacht im Altertum (München: Beck 1940), pp. 26, 82.
Ch. H. Brecht, Zur Haftung der Schiffer im antiken Recht (München: Beck 1962), pp. 53, 55-56, 142.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), pp. 134-135, no. 90.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 74.
J. L. Alonso ‘Fault, strict liability and risk in the law of the papyri’, in J. Urbanik (ed.), Culpa. Facets of Liability in Ancient Legal Theory and Practice Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Warsaw 17–19 February 2011. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement XIX (Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity, University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Papyrology, The Raphael Taubenschlag Foudation, 2012), pp. 19-82 (pp. 43, 56).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)