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Papyrus 797
- Record Id:
- 040-002105187
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00003b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463409.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 797
- Title:
- Claim of a Creditor (P.Oxy. II 286, P.Lond. III 797 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 232, TM 20557)
- Scope & Content:
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Petition of a woman whose name is lost, concerning a sum of 2000 drachmas she and her mother had borrowed from a certain Philumene five years earlier, which the creditor was claiming back. The agreement was that Heron, son of Philumene, would repay the loan and any interest and would secure the debtors against any liability, under penalty to repay any loss or damage to the debtors. The petitioner asked that a copy of this document be served to Heron and Zenarion, possibly his wife. With date at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105187 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 797 : Claim of a Creditor (P.Oxy. II 286, P.Lond. III 797 descr., Chrest.Mitt. 232, TM 20557) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0857]/040-002105187
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, broken off at the top and damaged at the bottom and with small holes throughout; strips of fibres are occasionally missing; loose and dislocated fibres are visible at the top and bottom. The papyrus bears writing on both sides along the fibres; of the text on the back only few letters remain. On the front there are 29 lines; the last two lines are separated by some blank space from the rest of the text. Few traces remain of the first line preserved. At the height of line 28, text was written in the left margin. The left margin is extant, the lower margin is damaged, and the right is minimal and irregular. Modern annotations are visible on both sides, with the number in red referring to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463409.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0082
- End Date:
- 0082
- Date Range:
- 17 May 82
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 173 x 135 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 230 x 185 mm.
Script: Neat, thin and upright detached hand of small size, rounded and slightly uneven towards the end of the lines, with occasional ligatures; rough cursive hand in the last two lines.
- 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. 232
P.Lond. III 797 descr.
P.Oxy. II 286 - 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. 277-279, no. 286.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxvi, no. 797 descr.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Zweiter Band. Zweite Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 256-257, no. 232.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 130.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 58.
K. McCruden, Solidarity Perfected: Beneficent Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter 2008), p. 33.
B. Nongbri, ‘The Limits of Palaeographic Dating of Literary Papyri: Some Observations on the Date and Provenance of P.Bodmer II (P66)’, Museum Helveticum 71 (2014), pp. 1-35 (pp. 10-11).
J. Kavčič, ‘The Decline of the Aorist Infinitive in Ancient Greek Declarative Infinitive Clauses’, Journal of Greek Linguistics 16 (2016), pp. 266-311 (p. 278).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)