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Papyrus 2062
- Record Id:
- 040-002105432
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000137
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123710.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2062
- Title:
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Loan of Money (P.Oxy. VIII 1130, TM 21748)
- Scope & Content:
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A contract between Aurelius Abraham of the village of Senokomis and Aurelius Isaac, trader of Alexandria, the former acknowledging to have received a loan of ten solidi from hand to hand. The loan shall be paid back after six months with the interest of 20 bundles of tow. Signed by a deacon on behalf of Abraham and with endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105432 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2062 : Loan of Money (P.Oxy. VIII 1130, TM 21748) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0835]/040-002105432
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fully preserved papyrus sheet, with a few wormholes, especially in its left half; the text runs along the fibres on both sides, the back having a two-line docket. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. VIII. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123710.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0484
- End Date:
- 0484
- Date Range:
- 4 May 484
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 308 x 190 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 355 x 240 mm.
Script: Well-formed upright hand with some ligatures; a second hand, rougher and more cursive, in lines 26-30 of the recto.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Senokomis, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2040-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. VIII 1130
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), p. 479.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 225-228, no. 1130.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc. : second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II, Part I (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), Plate 3.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 333.
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri (Stuttgart: A. Hierseman 1967), no. 53, pl. 34.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1976), p. 100.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 135.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 241.
N. Gonis, ‘Three Consular Dates’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132 (2000), pp. 183-186 (p. 186, n. 13).
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 115, n. 67.
F. Morelli, ‘Tessuti e indumenti nel contest economico tardo-antico: I prezzi’, Antiquité Tardive Revue Internationale d'Histoire et d'Archéologie (IVe-VIIe siècle) 12 (2004), pp. 55-78 (p. 58, n. 17).
J. Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), p. 76 with n. 222.
T. M. Hickey, Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt: The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus. New texts from ancient cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2012), p. 34 with n. 95.
P. Orsini, Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books (Berlin: De Gruyter 2018), p. 54 with n. 255.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)