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Papyrus 1540
- Record Id:
- 040-002105319
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000c8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143122996.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1540
- Title:
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Lease of a Vineyard (P.Oxy. IV 729, TM 20429)
- Scope & Content:
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Four-year sub-lease of a vineyard, comprising vines, a rose garden and a reed plantation, from Sarapion to Ammonius and Ptollas. Provisions are made as to the expenses to be covered, the work at the dykes, the supply of pigeon dung for manuring, the guarding, costs for irrigation, with a loan of money and cattle to be provided by the lessor. The rent is to be paid with half produce of wine in addition to a fixed amount of wine, and penalty applies in case of failure of the payment. A piece of dry land is also being rent for a period of three years, starting one year after the contract, at a rent of 60 drachmas per year in addition to half of the produce presumably. The lessees will be provided with two rent-free rooms in the farmstead. With subscriptions of the lessees written by Ptolemaeus as they were illiteate, followed by another agreement, drawn up one year later, acknowledging the loan of livestock, whose estimated value is 2500 drachmas.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105319 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1540 : Lease of a Vineyard (P.Oxy. IV 729, TM 20429) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1008]/040-002105319
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll, broken off at the top and bottom, with detached fragments at the bottom; with holes and surface damage. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There is one wide column of which 46 lines survive. Of the first three and last lines only few traces remain. Lines lack the beginnings, with an average of 35-40 letters lost. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143122996.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0138
- End Date:
- 0138
- Date Range:
- 17 October 138
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 345 mm.
Script: Regular and neat upright cursive hand of small size. Signatures: End of line 35-line 38: Large, inexperienced and rough hand, detached but with some ligatures. End of line 38-end: Small, regular upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1523-1544 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. IV 729
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 310.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1904), pp. 180-183, no. 713.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 327.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 132.
J. P. Oleson, Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-Lifting Devices: The History of a Technology (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1984), p. 159.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 181.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 145.
S. Alessandrì, Le vendite fiscali nell'Egitto Romano 1. Da Augusto a Domiziano (Bari: Edipuglia 2005), pp. 50-55.
J. S. Kloppenborg, The tenants in the vineyard: ideology, economics, and agrarian conflict in Jewish Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2006), pp. 505-513.
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 (p. 53).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)