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Papyrus 975
- Record Id:
- 040-003468012
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100089040473.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463940.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 975
- Title:
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Loan (P.Lond. III 975, TM 22754)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelia Tamounis, daughter of Silvanus and Sarapias, acknowledges receipt of a loan of 4 artabas and a half of vegetables, to be repaid in the month of Epeiph, from Aurelia Isidora alias Eudaemonis, of Antinoopolis. With subscription of Tamounis at the end, written by Aurelius Horigenes, son of Ammonius, as she is illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003468012 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 975 : Loan (P.Lond. III 975, TM 22754) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0928]/040-003468012
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet in poor condition, darker to the right, with holes especially located in its left half and abrasion and other surface damage throughout. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 25 lines, some of which lack the beginnings. The margins survive, although they are mutilated in places. A sheet-join runs along the height of the sheet in the right margin. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463940.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0314
- End Date:
- 0314
- Date Range:
- 15 January 314
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 253 x 164 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 210 mm.
Script: Large and proficient cursive hand; smaller, more rapid and somewhat uneven cursive hand for the subscription from line 22.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome?, Egypt.
Provenance: 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 975
- 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), p. 230, no. 975.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 290.
N. Lewis, ‘The Meaning of σὺν ἡμιολίᾳ and Kindred Expressions in Loan Contracts’, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 76 (1945), pp. 126-139 (p. 129) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 95.
J. S. Kloppenborg, ‘Agrarian Discourse and the Sayings of Jesus’, in B. W. Longenecker, K. D. Liebengood (eds), Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early Christian Reception (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2009), pp. 104-128 (pp. 118-119).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aurelia Isidora, alias Eudaemonis; of Antinoopolis, late 3rd century-early 4th century
Aurelia Tamounis, daughter of Silvanus and Sarapias, 266-325
Aurelius Horigenes, late 3rd century-early 4th century - Places:
- Antinoopolis, Egypt
Hermopolite nome, 15th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt