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Papyrus 1836
- Record Id:
- 040-002105375
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000fe
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466597.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1836
- Title:
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Contract for Sureties (P.Hib. I 91, TM 2821)
- Scope & Content:
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Mnason and Hegemon undertake to be the sureties for the defendant Timocles, son of Simos, and to deliver him at Herakleopolis before the strategus for the trial. A certain Apollonius demands 300 drachmas with an interest of 100 drachmas from Timocles, which the sureties will have to pay along with any other charges should they fail to produce the defendant.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105375 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1836 : Contract for Sureties (P.Hib. I 91, TM 2821) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1133]/040-002105375
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of a papyrus sheet, reused as mummy cartonnage, with plaster residue. The sheet breaks off at the bottom and is damaged by holes throughout. The front bears 22 lines written along the fibres; on the back there are traces of effaced writing and of the mummy decoration, along with a modern annotation. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466597.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0264
- End Date:
- -0264
- Date Range:
- 4 May 264 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 113 x 93 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 165 x 145 mm.
Script: Small and thick hand, with more cursive sequences of letters.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Mouchinaryo, 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:
- P.Hib. I 92
- 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. 259-261, no. 92.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 19-20, no. 23.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 465.
T. Reekmans, ‘Parerga Papyrologica’, Chronique d'Égypte 27 (1952), pp. 404-412 (pp. 411-412).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 84.
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.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), pp. 108-109.
R. S. Bagnall, P. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), pp. 215-216, no. 129.
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 (pp. 186-187).
C. Bennett, Alexandria and the Moon: An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt (StudiaHellenistica 52) (Leuven: Peeters 2011), p. 22.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 112.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)