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Papyrus 1785
- Record Id:
- 040-003394639
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055745661.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1785
- Title:
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Receipt for Repayment of Money (P.Lond. V 1717, TM 19733) and Metrological Tables and Problems (P.Lond. V 1718, TM 65048, LDAB 6289, MP3 354)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: Receipt for the repayment of a debt of money, given by a woman whose name is lost, accompanied by two people, Calotychus, son of Stephanus, and Theodosia, daughter of Ioannes; with subscriptions at the end. The document was written in Antinoopolis. The fragments preserve the left-hand side of the document, the right-hand side of which is to be found in Papyrus 1667 recto.
Verso: Metrological tables written by Dioscorus, divided into four main groups: the first on the ratio between various measures; the second on the capacity of artaba in terms of various lesser measures; the third on how to measure the capacity of various objects, with one line presumably dealing with ratio between cleaned and uncleaned wheat; the fourth on measures of length. The fragments preserve the upper parts of the columns of the documents; the lower parts are to be found in Papyrus 1667 verso; the mid portion between Papyrus 1785 and Papyrus 1667 is missing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003394639 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1785 : Receipt for Repayment of Money (P.Lond. V 1717, TM 19733) and Metrological Tables and Problems (P.Lond. V 1718, TM 65048, LDAB 6289,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0608]/040-003394639
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Three fragments of a papyrus roll of various sizes, housed in two glass frames; written on both sides and preserving further portions of the texts contained in Papyrus 1667.
- 1785 (1) Ro: the lower fragment, wrongly placed at the bottom, contains the beginning of the first six lines of the document; after one line in lacuna, the top fragment contains the beginning of the following 7 lines, with only a few traces for line 7;
- 1785 (2) Ro: beginning of the remaining lines of the document. The ending of the lines is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid strip of the papyrus is missing. The text on the recto is also broken at the top and bottom.
- 1785 (1) Vo: the fragment on the right-hand side, misplaced in the frame, contains lines 1-7 of column 1; the fragment on the left-hand side contains the endings of those lines of column 1 and the beginning of the first seven lines of column 2;
- 1785 (2) Vo: endings of the first lines of column 2 and the first lines of columns 3-6. The continuation of columns 1-4 is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid portions of the columns between Papyrus 1785 and 1667 are lost.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0550
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 1785 (1): Bottom Fr.: 100 x 75 mm; top Fr.: 105 x 80 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 150 mm. Papyrus 1785 (2): 640 x 80 mm; mounted in a glass frame measuring 670 x 135 mm.
Script: Recto: Fluent upright cursive; an additional hand is to be found from line 51 to end. Verso: hand of Dioscorus.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Antinoopolis, Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1757-1786 from Ali Abd-el-Haj on 12 October 1907.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1717
P.Lond. V 1718 - 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. 312.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 151-154, no. 1717.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 155-165, no. 1718.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 82.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1958), p. 92.
R. P. Duncan-Jones, ‘The Choenix, the Artaba and the Modius’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 21 (1976), pp. 43-52
D. W. Rathbone, ‘The Weight and Measurement of Egyptian Grains’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 53 (1983), pp. 265-275 (pp. 267-270).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1992), p. 192.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E.J. Brill 1998), p. 107.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)