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Papyrus 827
- Record Id:
- 040-002105219
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000074
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463570.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 827
- Title:
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Loan of Wheat (SB VIII 9764, P.Fay. 151 descr., P.Lond. III 827 descr., TM 5793)
- Scope & Content:
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Conclusion of an agreement for a loan of 6 artabas of wheat, with subscriptions of the borrowers Petesuchus, son of Pnepheros, and Onnophris, son of Petesuchus, written by others as they were illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105219 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 827 : Loan of Wheat (SB VIII 9764, P.Fay. 151 descr., P.Lond. III 827 descr., TM 5793) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0942]/040-002105219
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Incomplete papyrus sheet, broken off at the top, lacking part of the bottom and damaged by insect holes throughout. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are portions of 15 lines, the first two only having the beginnings. Blank space (25 mm) separates lines 2 and 3. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463570.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0049
- End Date:
- -0049
- Date Range:
- 49 BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 130 x 115 mm; framed in a glass case measuring 185 x 165 mm.
Script: Three hands. Lines 1-2: 1st hand, small and cursive; lines 2-9 and lines 10-15: 2nd and 3rd hands, thick, cursive, and of bigger size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, 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. 151 descr.
P.Lond. III 827 descr.
SB VIII 9764 - 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), p. 296, no. 151 descr.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. xxxvii, no. 827 descr.
T. C. Skeat, ‘Notes on Ptolemaic Chronology: III. 'The First Year Which Is Also the Third' A Date in the Reign of Cleopatra VII’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 48 (1962), pp. 100-105, with pl. IV.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1967), p. 93, no. 9764.
L. M. Ricketts, ‘A Chronological Problem in the Reign of Cleopatra VII’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 16 (1979), pp. 213-217 (pp. 214-215, 217).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 354.
J. Bingen, R. S. Bagnall, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press 2007), p. 70, n. 28.
M. Resel, ‘Zahlungsanweisungen für Weizen aus dem Tempel des Soknobkonneus in Bakchias: Das Archiv des Sitologen Akousilaos’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 45 (2015), pp. 165-227 (p. 174, n. 30).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)