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Papyrus 2505
- Record Id:
- 040-003473253
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100093960804.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467857.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2505
- Title:
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Sale of a Female Donkey (P.Diog. 28, TM 10700)
- Scope & Content:
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Aurelius Dius, son of Somphtheus, of Neilopolis, has sold a female donkey of black colour for 600 drachmas to Aurelius Aion, of Philadelpheia, and acknowledges receipt of payment.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003473253 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2505 : Sale of a Female Donkey (P.Diog. 28, TM 10700) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1062]/040-003473253
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Mid-dark brown papyrus sheet, complete, with holes throughout and some abrasion in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front there is one column of 16 lines. Margins are extant, with the blank at the bottom measuring 90 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467857.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0223
- End Date:
- 0223
- Date Range:
- 19 February 223
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 110 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 260 x 150 mm.
Script: Thin, rapid cursive hand of small size, with a slant to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?).
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2486-2542 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1922. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
- Former External References:
- P.Diog. 28
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.
O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 577, no. 17.
P. Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt 1990), pp. 169-170, no. 28.
L. Migliardi Zingale, Vita privata e vita pubblica nei papiri d'Egitto: silloge di documenti greci e latini dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: Giappichelli 1992), p. 61, no. 29.
P. van Minnen, ‘Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés by P. Schubert’, Mnemosyne 48 (1995), pp. 507-511.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 63.
N. Litinas, 'P.Lond. III 1128: Sale of a Donkey’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 124 (1999), pp. 195-204 (p. 203).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 74.
P. Schubert, Philadelphie. Un village égyptien en mutation entre le IIe et le IIIe siècle ap. J.-C. (Schweizerische Beiträge für Altertumswissenschaft 34) (Basel: Schwabe 2007), pp. 55-69.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)