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Papyrus 1735
- Record Id:
- 040-003534650
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101136623.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466101.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1735
- Title:
- Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1697, TM 36922)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragmentary contract for a one-year lease of a plot of land. The names of the parties are lost, but the lessor may be Apollos, the father of the notary and poet Dioscorus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003534650 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1735 : Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1697, TM 36922) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1511]/040-003534650
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a papyrus sheet in two fragments, dark-brown, broken off at the top, left and bottom; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears portions of 14 lines wanting the beginnings; of the first preserved line only the feet of few letters survive. The right margin is extant; the other margins are lost. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466101.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 141 x 102 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 195 x 155 mm.
Script: Proficient cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1697
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 102-103, no. 1697.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Notes on absentee landlordism at Aphrodito’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 137-169 (p. 140, n. 15, and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)