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Papyrus 1833(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002105372
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000fb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466565.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1833(A-B)
- Title:
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Sale of Wheat (P.Hib. I 84(a), Chrest.Mitt. 131, TM 2817), and Date (P.Hib. I 84(b), TM 8293)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Hib. I 84a, TM 2817): Contract for the sale of 30 artabas of wheat from Epimenes, Athenian, to Timocles, Chalcidian. Epimenes has received the payment, and shall deliver the corn out of the new crops. The back bears the names of the witnesses and of the parties.
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Hib. I 84b, TM 8293): Beginning of a Ptolemaic date, mentioning year 40.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105372 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1833(A-B) : Sale of Wheat (P.Hib. I 84(a), Chrest.Mitt. 131, TM 2817), and Date (P.Hib. I 84(b), TM 8293) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1137]/040-002105372
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments extracted from the same mummy cartonnage, housed in one glass frame. The modern annotations in red on the back refer to the publication in P.Hib. I.
Upper fragment (A): Sheet, broken off at the bottom, damaged by holes in the preserved portion and with plaster residue; written on both sides. The text on the front runs along the fibres; there are 28 lines; on the back there are remains of 2 lines against the fibres.
Lower fragment (B): Upper left portion of a sheet, with the beginning of one line, written along the fibres.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0285
- End Date:
- -0284
- Date Range:
- 285-284 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 225 x 175 mm; B: 24 x 64 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 225 mm.
Script: A: Thin, small cursive hand; B: Thin, large and neat hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Peroe, Herakleopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El- Hiba), Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1821-1841 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in January 1909. They were extracted from mummy cartonnage obtained by Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) and Arthur Surridge Hunt (b. 1871, d. 1934) at Hibeh in 1902.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 131
P.Hib. I 84a
P.Hib. I 84b
Sel.Pap. I 34 - 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. 314.
A
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1906), pp. 242-245, no. 84(a), with pl. ix.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 146-147, no. 131.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 195.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 102-103, no. 34.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 76.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 39.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 46.
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L. Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1983), p. 4.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 69.
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri III.1 (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann 1990), p. 161, pl. 19.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 108.
L. Del Corso, ‘La scrittura greca di età ellenistica nei papiri greco-egizi. Considerazioni preliminari’, Analecta Papyrologica 18-20 (2006-2008), pp. 207-267 (p. 217).
E. Salmenkivi, ‘Herakleopolis Magna under Philadelphus’, in P. McKechnie, Ph. Guillaume (eds.), Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his world (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2008), pp. 183-190 (p. 186).
C. Bennett, Alexandria and the Moon: An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt (StudiaHellenistica 52) (Leuven: Peeters 2011), pp. 98-99.
B
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1906), pp. 245-246, no. 84(b).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 195.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 46.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)