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Papyrus 1834
- Record Id:
- 040-002105373
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000fc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466578.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1834
- Title:
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Loan of Seed-Corn (P.Hib. I 85, Chrest.Wilck. 103, TM 2818)
- Scope & Content:
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The priest Pasis acknowledges that he has received from Paris, agent of the nomarch Harimouthes, wheat, barley and olyra (emmer wheat), for a total value of 90 artabas of wheat, as seed for the royal holding he is renting. He undertakes to return the seed he has received and deliver the rent at the royal granaries. With Pasis’ subscription in Demotic at the end. Papyrus 1840 is a duplicate copy, without subscription.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105373 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1834 : Loan of Seed-Corn (P.Hib. I 85, Chrest.Wilck. 103, TM 2818) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1130]/040-002105373
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Long and narrow dark-brown papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue and surface damage, and torn at the top; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column 28 lines, the last two being in Demotic. Side margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466578.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Egyptian (Ancient)
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Egyptian demotic
Greek - Start Date:
- -0261
- End Date:
- -0261
- Date Range:
- 22 September-21 October 261 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 261 x 90 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 140 mm.
Script: Skilled, neat and thin upright hand, with ligatures in places and slightly uneven towards the ends of the lines; Demotic in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchite 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.Wilck. 103
P.Hib. I 85 - 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.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1906), pp. 246-248, no. 85.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 135-136, no. 103.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 53.
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. 7.
J. L. White, Light from Ancient Letters (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1986), p. 23.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 249, no. 2a.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 108.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), pp. 173-174, no. 107.
G. Geraci, ‘Granai nell’Egitto ellenistico e romano : problemi tipologici, lessicali, funzionali e metodologici’, Mélanges de l'école française de Rome 120 (2008), pp. 307-322 (p. 316).
M. R. Falivene, ‘Geography and Administration in Egypt (332 BCE–642 CE)’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 521-540 (p. 529).
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 201.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 111.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)