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Papyrus 939
- Record Id:
- 040-003467814
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100088750999.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463821.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 939
- Title:
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Loan of Money (P.Lond. III 939, TM 22723)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelius Copreas, son of Eudaemon, acknowledges that he has received a loan of 64 drachmas from Theognostus alias Morus, which he will repay in the month of Mecheir of the current year. With subscription of Copreas at the end, written by someone else because Copreas was illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003467814 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 939 : Loan of Money (P.Lond. III 939, TM 22723) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0917]/040-003467814
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, almost complete, but with holes along the vertical folds and in the right bottom edge, and surface damage in the right half. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 23 lines, some of which slightly mutilated. All margins are extant, the right being irregular and minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463821.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0225
- End Date:
- 0225
- Date Range:
- 1 November 225
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 238 x 134 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 290 x 185 mm.
Script: Thin cursive hand, sloping to the right, somewhat irregular in size; different hand for the subscription from the end of line 21, smaller and more cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 884-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 939
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 174-175, no. 939, with pl. 52.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 286.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Theognostos Alias Moros and His Family’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76 (1989), pp. 213-218 (p. 215, no. 5).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)