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Papyrus 2915
- Record Id:
- 040-002105709
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002e8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125519.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2915
- Title:
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Fragmentary Agreement (SB XVIII 13778, TM 36285)
- Scope & Content:
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Only the end of this agreement survives, with the final clauses and subscriptions of Flavius Georgius, who drew up and wrote the deed in Memnoneia, and of five witnesses, who are presbyters and deacons.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105709 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2915 : Fragmentary Agreement (SB XVIII 13778, TM 36285) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1222]/040-002105709
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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The lower portion of a papyrus sheet, with bottom and side margins minimal. The text is on one side only and runs along the fibres. Housed in one glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125519.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 130 x 155 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 165 x 215 mm.
Script: Sloping and large cursive; five different hands from line 7 to end for the subscriptions of the witnesses.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memnoneia, Djeme (Thebes west), Egypt.
Provenance: Memnoneia, Djeme (Thebes west), Egypt. Part of a lot comprising Papyri 2912-2918 transferred from the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the British Museum on 25 November 1951.
- Former External References:
- SB XVIII 13778
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1951-1955 (London: British Library 1982), p 282.
G. M. Parássoglou, ‘Three Papyri from Upper Egypt’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2 (1987), pp. 155-160 (p. 159).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1993), p. 335, no. 13778.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 306.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)