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Papyrus 1682
- Record Id:
- 040-002105580
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000228
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466013.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1682
- Title:
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Acknowledgment of Debt for Rent (P.Lond. V 1766, TM 19758)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelius Colluthus, son of Cyriacus, of Nagogis, acknowledges the debt he owes to Flavius Georgius, son of the late Silvanus, as oustanding rent for the land he is leasing from him, and undertakes to pay the sum in Epeiph; with endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105580 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1682 : Acknowledgment of Debt for Rent (P.Lond. V 1766, TM 19758) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1355]/040-002105580
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Upper portion of a papyrus sheet, darknened and abraded in places, and with a gap at the top (front); written on both sides along the fibres, the back bearing one line. On the front there are 14 lines from the top of a column; upper and right margins are minimal, the left is irregular. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466013.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0559
- End Date:
- 0559
- Date Range:
- 14 January 559 (?)
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 221 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 270 mm.
Script: Proficient and neat upright cursive hand, somewhat thick.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1766
- 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. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 224-225, no. 1766.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, ‘Chronological Notes on Byzantine Documents (V)’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 17 (1980), pp. 19-25 (p. 20).
K. Maresch, Nomisma und Nomismatia: Beiträge zur Geldgeschichte Ägyptens im 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1994), pp. 23, 165.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aurelius Colluthus, mid 6th century
Flavius, Georgius, son of Silvanus, fl 6th century - Places:
- Hermopolite nome, 15th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt
- Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of the Soldiers of the numerus of the Mauri (TM Arch ID 223).