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Papyrus 1020
- Record Id:
- 040-002105655
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002af
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142973916.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1020
- Title:
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Receipt for Rent (P.Lond. III 1020, TM 22785)
- Scope & Content:
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Basilides, acting on behalf of Cyrilla and the nun Maria, acknowledges that he has received the payment for the rent of the current indiction from Georgius, son of Silvanus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105655 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1020 : Receipt for Rent (P.Lond. III 1020, TM 22785) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0962]/040-002105655
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet, square-shaped, torn at the top and bottom and with some surface damage throughout. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank; there are 12 lines; the lower margin survives in the left half of the sheet; side and upper margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973916.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0541
- End Date:
- 0571
- Date Range:
- 541, 556, or 571
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 132 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 190 mm.
Script: Thick, upright cursive hand, somewhat uneven.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1020
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 272-273, no. 1020.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), pp. 298-299.
P. Barison, ‘Ricerche sui monasteri dell'Egitto bizantino ed arabo secondo i documenti dei papiri greci’, Aegyptus 18 (1938), pp. 29-148 (p. 145).
J. Beaucamp, Le Statut de la Femme à Byzance. II. Les Pratiques Sociales (Paris: De Boccard 1992), p. 210, n. 83.
H. Harrauer, P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Bemerkungen zu Papyri’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 3 (1988), pp. 111-118 (p. 117, n. 20) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 137.
N. Kruit, ‘Three Byzantine Sales for Future Delivery SB XVI 12401 + 12402, SB VI 9051, P.Lond. III 997’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 9 (1994), pp. 67-88 (pp. 82-83, n. 65) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 102.
E. Wipszycka, ‘L'ascétisme féminin dans l'Égypte de l'antiquité tardive: topoi littéraires et formes d'ascèse’, in H. Melaerts, L. Mooren, Le rôle et le statut de la femme en Égypte hellénistique, romaine et byzantine: actes du colloque international, Bruxelles-Leuven 27-29 novembre 1997 (Leuven: Peeters 2002), pp. 355-396 (p. 396).
E. Wipszycka, Moines et communautés monastiques en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles), Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplements 11 (Varsovie: Warsaw University Faculty of Law and Administration Chair of Roman and Antique Law 2009), p. 610.
M. J. Albarrán Martínez, Prosopographia asceticarum aegyptiarum (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2010), p. 69.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Basileides, son of Phoebammon; of Hermopolis, fl 6th century
Georgius, 6th century - Places:
- Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt.