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Papyrus 1793
- Record Id:
- 040-003464678
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100087885408.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466294.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1793
- Title:
- Receipt (P.Lond. V 1720, TM 19735), and Statement as to Pledged Articles (Crum ST 439, TM 47601)
- Scope & Content:
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The recto, in Greek, contains a receipt for the full price of an earring deposited as security for a debt. Dated: 3 February 549. Nonna had borrowed an unknown amount of money from Maria and had left a pair of earrings with her as security. She now sells them to Maria for 8 solidi in cash. The relationship between the original debt and the 8 solidi is not clear; and the purchase price for the earrings may have included, in addition to the 8 solidi, the original amount of the debt. Seven years after this transaction, Maria must have made over to her father Paulos two pendants from one of the earrings which he gave as part of a pledge for a loan of five solidi (P. Lond. V1719.8, 15). The bottom of our document is missing but there is no reference in the preserved part to payment of the debt.
The verso, in Coptic, contains an account of objects placed in deposit. It deals with a single transaction, recording the deposit of half a dozen metal objects with a creditor in Petemout (modern Madamud, Egypt east bank of Thebes). The Coptic text contains no date. Possibly belonged to a family/families of pawnbrokers or moneylenders, who then moved to the Syene region.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003464678 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1793 : Receipt (P.Lond. V 1720, TM 19735), and Statement as to Pledged Articles (Crum ST 439, TM 47601) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0901]/040-003464678
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet of light colour, written on both sides, folded from right to left. On recto, written along the fibres in Greek. 1 column of text, 18 lines. On the verso written against the fibres in Coptic. The surface of the papyrus on verso side is abraded and damaged at the vertical foldlines and a hole interrupts the lower centre; 1 column of text; the Coptic text has 15 lines.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466294.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Coptic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Coptic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 165 mm x 114 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 215 x 165 mm.
Script: The Greek is a rather small laterally compressed sloping cursive (recto). The Coptic is a practised documentary hand, inclined slightly to the right, angular uncials, no ligatures (verso).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Thebes, 4th nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt.
Provenance: Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1787-1820 from Robert de Rustafjaell in November 1907. - Former External References:
- Crum ST 439
P.Lond. V 1720 - Publications:
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Recto:
H. I. Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, vol. V, (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 167-168
H. I. Bell, 'Syene Papyri in the British Museum', Klio 13 (1913), pp. 160-174 (pp. 160-173)
J. J. Farber, in B. Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (Leiden: Brill 1996), pp. 459-460, no. D 24. Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 107.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 120.
Verso:
H. I. Bell, 'Syene Papyri in the British Museum', Klio, 13 (1913), pp. 160-174 (pp. 173-174)
W. E.Crum, Short Texts from Coptic Ostraca and Papyri (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921), pp. 114-115
L. S. B. MacCoull, 'Further Notes on ST 439 (= P.Lond. V 1720v)', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 96 (1993), pp. 229-233
Metadata provided by the ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)