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Papyrus 113 (4)
- Record Id:
- 040-003413636
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060361820.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 113 (4)
- Title:
- Lease of Land (P.Lond. I 113.4 + BL I 236, TM 41021)
- Scope & Content:
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Contract for lease of around 30 arouras of land in the village of Souris, dated to 8 June 595 and similar to 113(3). The lessees are Aurelius Ioannes and Aurelius Castous, both farmers, and the lessor is Phoebammon, a notary (tabularius) in Arsinoe. The landowner will receive three-fourths of the produce and five-sixths of the hay, but will have to supply the seed and animals and will be responsible for cutting the hay. With autograph signatures and notarial subscription at the end and endorsement on the back. Some of the fragments forming the document (namely those preserving lines 10-13 and the concluding lines) were formerly in the Bodleian Library.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003413636 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 113 (4) : Lease of Land (P.Lond. I 113.4 + BL I 236, TM 41021) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0640]/040-003413636
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments from a papyrus roll, written on both sides; the fragments preserving lines 10-13 and the concluding lines of the recto were formerly in the Bodleian Library.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_113_(4) (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0595
- End Date:
- 0595
- Date Range:
- 8 June 595
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 365 x 210 mm; housed in one glass case measuring 420 x 305 mm.
Script: Different hands, the body of the document being in a neat and upright hand of fair size; more cursive and sloping to the right at the beginning and end of the document; a further hand in the last line.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with the other papyri housed in the frames labelled as Papyrus 113.2- Papyrus 113.17 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 13 July 1878. The fragments preserving lines 10-13 and the concluding lines were formerly in the Bodleian Library and were acquired by the British Museum in 1896.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 280.
C. Wessely, ‘Griechische Papyri des British Museum’, Wiener Studien. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie 9 (1887), pp. 235-278 (pp. 259, 261).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 208-209, no. 113.4.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 179, no. 39 [Facsimile].
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1913), pp. 235-237.
A. Bataille, Les papyrus (Paris: Presses universitaires de France 1955), plate XI.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 173.
A. Blanchard, 'L'hypothèse de l'unité de ductus en paléographie papyrologique', Scrittura e Civiltà 23 (1999), pp. 5-27 (plate VIIb).
N. Kruit, K. A. Worp, ‘Zur Auflösung der Kürzung ἐν Ἀρ() in den Papyri’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 18 (2003), pp. 55-57 (p. 55).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 99.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)