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Papyrus 825
- Record Id:
- 040-002105217
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000072
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463551.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 825
- Title:
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Receipt for Payments through a Bank (P.Fay. 87, P.Lond. III 825 descr., TM 10930)
- Scope & Content:
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Receipt acknowledging various sums paid as rents on different days into the bank of Titus Flavius Eutychides. The payments are made by Eudaemon, son of Sarapion, and his colleagues, overseers of the property located near Euhemeria, now possession of the city of Alexandria, formerly belonging to the philosopher Julius Asclepiades.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105217 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 825 : Receipt for Payments through a Bank (P.Fay. 87, P.Lond. III 825 descr., TM 10930) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0939]/040-002105217
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet lacking part of its right half and damaged by holes in its lower half; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are two columns, the first of 21 lines, the second of 3 mutilated lines.The left margin measures 35 mm, the upper 20 mm and the lower, which is preserved up to the end of the first column, measures c. 35 mm. The modern note in red refers to the edition in P.Fay. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463551.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0156
- End Date:
- 0156
- Date Range:
- 2 October 156
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 228 x 309 mm; framed in a glass case measuring 285 x 360 mm.
Script: Large, thick, upright hand, with well-rounded and mostly detached letters; few ligatures occur; there are dots or loops at the end of the strokes. High stop (after figures) and diaeresis occur; long paragraphus at the end of column 1.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900.
- Former External References:
- P.Fay. 87
P.Lond. III 825 descr.
Sel.Pap. II 371 - 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.
Fayûm towns and their papyri (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1900), pp. 220-222, no. 87.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. xxxviii, no. 825 descr.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II, Part VI-VII (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), pl. 117.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 2, Non-Literary Papyri, Public Documents (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 470-471, no. 371.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 125, no. 55.
B. G. Mandilaras, Papyroi kai papyrologia (Athens: 1980), p. 180, n. 47; (1994), p. 381, no. 49.
E. G. Turner, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 86-87, no. 48.
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. 147).
H.Parkins, C. J. Smith, Trade, Traders, and the Ancient City (London-New York: Routledge 1998), p. 182.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), pp. 182-184, 198.
P. Malik, P. Beatty III (P47): the codex, its scribe, and its text (Leiden: Brill 2017), pp. 52, 57.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)