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Papyrus 2474
- Record Id:
- 040-002105508
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00019a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124633.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2474
- Title:
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Contract for Labour in a Vineyard and Lease of a Fruit-Garden (P.Oxy. XIV 1631, TM 21943)
- Scope & Content:
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Application from three men, Aurelius Ctistus, his son Aurelius Ptolemaeus and Aurelius Peloius, who offer to extend for another year the lease of viticultural work on a vineyard and adjacent reed-plantation owned by Aurelius Serenus alias Sarapion in the village of Tanais. A detailed list of the operations is provided: among these are the plucking, collection and transport of reeds, the cutting of wood, transport of leaves, planting of vine-stems, digging, etc. The lessees are to receive wages in the form of money, wheat and wine.
Additionally, they undertake to lease the produce of the older part of the vineyard, which includes date-palms and other fruit-trees, for which they pay a rent in fruit, and agree to supply labour for a fruit-garden near the vineyard without any extra payment. The subscription at the end was written by the scribe Tiberius Claudius Horion on behalf of the lessees.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105508 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2474 : Contract for Labour in a Vineyard and Lease of a Fruit-Garden (P.Oxy. XIV 1631, TM 21943) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1312]/040-002105508
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A papyrus sheet, damaged by wormholes throughout and with larger gaps in its left half. On the front writing is along the fibres; the ink is brownish. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124633.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0280
- End Date:
- 0280
- Date Range:
- 21 December 280
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 238 x 199 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 285 x 245 mm.
Script: Neat and experienced cursive hand of small size, with upright letters; different hand from line 36 to end.
- 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. XIV 1631
- 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. Part XIV (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1920), pp. 15-25, no. 1631.
A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar, Select papyri. Vol. 1, Private affairs (London: W. Heinemann 1932), pp. 54-59, no. 18.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 144-145, no. 86.
M. Hombert, C. Préaux, ‘Un petit propriétaire égyptien du milieu du IIIe siècle de notre ère: Aurelius Serenus - Sarapion’, L'Antiquité Classique 17 (1948), pp. 331-337.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 62.
N. Lewis, Life in Egypt under Roman Rule (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press 1983), pp. 125-126.
D. P. Kehoe, Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 40) (Bonn: R. Habelt 1992), pp. 72-74.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 248.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 187.
Ph. Mayerson, ‘ἐπαλείψομεν in P. Oxy. XIV 1631.17 and XLVII 3354.18: "Oiling" or "Sealing"’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000), pp. 101-103.
J. S. Kloppenborg, The tenants in the vineyard: ideology, economics, and agrarian conflict in Jewish Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2006), pp. 537-542.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 140.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)