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Papyrus 1204
- Record Id:
- 040-003475873
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100097959681.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464528.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1204
- Title:
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Sale and Receipt for Tax on Transfer (P.Lond. III 1204, Chrest.Mitt. 152, TM 91)
- Scope & Content:
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Deed recording the sale of half of a house in Pathyris drawn up by Ammonius, the sellers being Taelolous and Siepmous, daughters of Totoes, and the buyer Kobaetesis, daughter of Phagonis, at the price of one talent of copper. Dated to 26 December 113 BC; with summary of the deed (scriptura interior), original clay seal (TM Seal 882), bearing a female face turning left, and deed in full. The bank receipt, issued by the banker Paniscus and acknowledging the payment of the tax on transfer, follows; it is dated to 17 January 112 BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003475873 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1204 : Sale and Receipt for Tax on Transfer (P.Lond. III 1204, Chrest.Mitt. 152, TM 91) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1159]/040-003475873
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus roll, complete and well preserved, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears three columns; the first has 5 lines, the second 11 lines and the third 14 lines, the last 6 of which are indented. All margins are extant; sheet-joins from top to bottom are visible. The original clay seal is preserved. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464528.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0113
- End Date:
- -0112
- Date Range:
- 113-112 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus; clay.
Dimensions: 115 x 567 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 170 x 610 mm.
Script: Column 1: Small and rapid cursive hand; columns 2-3: upright and neat cursive hand, somewhat uneven and thicker in places; column 3, end: small cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pathyris (Gebelein), Egypt.
Provenance: Pathryis (Gebelein), Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 152
P.Lond. III 1204 - 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. 444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 10-11, no. 1204, with pl. 5.
U. Wilcken, ‘Papyrus-Urkunden’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 4 (1908), pp. 526-568 (p. 529).
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 163-165, no. 152.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 273.
S. R. K. Glanville, T. C. Skeat, ‘Eponymous Priesthoods of Alexandria from 211 B.C.’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 40 (1954), pp. 45-58 (p. 56).
G. Cavallo, ‘Note sulla scrittura greca corsiva’, Scriptorium 22 (1968), pp. 291-294 (p. 292).
P. W. Pestman, ‘Agoranomoi et actes agoranomiques’, in P. W. Pestman (ed.), Textes et études de papyrologie grecque, démotique et copte (Pap. Lugd. Bat. XXIII) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1985), p. 18.
R. Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte ptolémaïque’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998), pp. 165-202 (p. 194).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)