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Papyrus 2018
- Record Id:
- 040-003392992
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054517985.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058770910.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2018
- Title:
- Sale of Part of a House (SB VI 8987, TM 17840)
- Scope & Content:
- Deed of sale drawn up in Oxyrhynchus, in which Philemon and Thekla purchased part of a house in Apollonopolis from Elisabeth and Iustina, heirs and successors of a certain Thekla, who had mortgaged part of the house as security for a loan. With autograph subscriptions of the witnesses; tachygraphic marks at the end of line 52. The papyrus is part of the archive of Philemon and Thekla.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003392992 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2018 : Sale of Part of a House (SB VI 8987, TM 17840) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0585]/040-003392992
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of the same document from a papyrus roll, the first containing lines 1-31, the second lines 32-52; written on one side and well preserved, although lacking a few letters on the left-hand side. Mounted on cardboard and housed in two glass frames.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058770910.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0644
- End Date:
- 0645
- Date Range:
- 644-645
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fr. 1: 460 x 325 mm; Fr. 2: 495 x 325 mm. Framed in two glass cases, numbered as Papyrus 2018 (1) and Papyrus 2018 (2), measuring 510 x 380 mm and 545 x 380 mm respectively.
Script: Neat upright hand, with cursive elements; additional hands from line 44 to the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Apollonopolis Magna, Apollonopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased with Papyri 2017, 2019 from Panayotis Kyticas of Cairo on 4 July 1911.
- Former External References:
- SB VI 8987
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), pp. 475-476.
H. I. Bell, 'An Oath formula of the Arab Period in Egypt', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 22 (1913), pp. 392-394 (pp. 392-393).
H. Zilliacus, 'Griechische Papyrusurkunden des 7. Jahrh. n.Chr. veröffentlicht und erklärt', Eranos 38 (1940), pp. 78-107 (pp. 84-93).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1963), pp. 11-15, no. 8987.
A. A. Schiller, 'The Interrelation of Coptic and Greek Papyri; P.Bu and P. BM Inv. Nos. 2017 and 2018', Studien zur Papyrologie und antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Friedrich Oertel zum achtzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet (Bonn: R. Habelt 1964), pp. 107-119.
A. A. Schiller, 'The Budge Coptic Papyrus of Columbia University and Related Greek Papyri of the British Museum', Actes du Xe Congrès Internationale de Papyrologues: Varsovie-Cracovie 3-9 Septembre 1961 (Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy Ossolinskich 1964), pp. 193-200.
A. A. Schiller, 'The Budge Papyrus of Columbia University', Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 7 (1968), pp. 79-112 (passim).
O. Montevecchi, La Papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), pp. 260-261, no. 91.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, 'Gleanings from Papyri', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 19 (1975), pp. 265-278 (pp. 272-273).
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, 'Christian invocations in the papyri', Chronique d'Égypte 56 (1981), pp. 112-133 (p. 122).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1986), p. 200.
S. Allam, 'Observations on Civil Jurisdiction in Late Byzantine and Early Arabic Egypt', Life in a Multi-Cultural Society. Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond (Chigaco: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago 1992), pp. 1-8.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1992), p. 337.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1995), p. 252.
N. Gonis, 'Oxyrhynchus, the Christ-Loving City?', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), p. 182.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2002), p. 204.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 194.
On ll. 13, 16: R. W. Daniel, Architectural Orientation in the Papyri (Paderborn: Schöningh 2010), p. 77.
N. Gonis, 'Notes on Miscellaneous Documents V', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 208 (2018), pp. 187-192 (p. 191, no. 67).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)