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Papyrus 2463
- Record Id:
- 040-002105496
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000177
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124531.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2463
- Title:
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Report of a Trial and Lease of Land (P.Oxy. XII 1502, TM 21884-21885)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 21884):
Column 1: A fragmentary report of a trial for assault, with a report of a physician and a petition to the strategus Aurelius Ptolemaeus alias Nemesianus supplied as evidence. The deputy-epistrategus Metrodorus is mentioned.
Column 2: Beginnings of 9 lines of uncertain nature in a different hand.
Verso (TM 21885)
Extract from a lease of 4 aruras of land near the village of Isieion Panga, damaged by the flood and now to be sowed with grass.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105496 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2463 : Report of a Trial and Lease of Land (P.Oxy. XII 1502, TM 21884-21885) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1308]/040-002105496
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, with writing on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. On the recto, parts of two columns are preserved, written by two hands. Of the first column, portions of eleven lines survive; of the second, only the beginnings of 9 lines remain. The text on the verso, written by a different hand, is complete. The papyrus is mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124531.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0260
- End Date:
- 0261
- Date Range:
- 260-261
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 82 x 118 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 130 x 160 mm.
Script: Three hands. Recto: Sloping cursive hand in column one and upright cursive hand of fair size in column two; Verso: Upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XII 1502
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1916), p. 255, no. 1502.
J. Rowlandson, ‘Crop Rotation and Rent Payment in Oxyrhynchite Land Leases: Social and Economic Interpretations, in A. Bülow-Jakobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology. Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 495-499 (p. 498 n. 15).
S. Torallas Tovar, ‘La práctica forense en el Egipto romano’, in L. Gil (ed.), Homenaje a Pedro Laín Entralgo. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica 14 (2004), pp. 183-200 (pp. 186, 195).
B. Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 172 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)