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Papyrus 1647
- Record Id:
- 040-003534652
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101136650.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465877.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1647
- Title:
-
Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. V 1699, TM 19716)
- Scope & Content:
- Aurelius Besarion acknowledges a loan of forty artabas of wheat incurred by his father and by his uncle, and of six additional artabas, for a total of forty-six artabas. The name of the creditor is mutilated; he was an oil-manufacturer, son of Musaeus. With endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003534652 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1647 : Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. V 1699, TM 19716) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1513]/040-003534652
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragmentary papyrus sheet, darker by patches in the left-hand portion, abraded throughout, with few insect holes in places; broken off at the bottom, but complete at the top and sides. Writing runs on both sides along the fibres; the front bears 15 lines; traces of another line at the bottom are visible. Upper and side margins are extant and minimal. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom at c. 55 mm from the right edge. On the back, there is one line at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465877.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0520
- End Date:
- 0520
- Date Range:
- 11 August 520
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 176 x 167 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 220 mm.
Script: Recto: Somewhat compressed, slightly sloping cursive hand. Verso: Upright cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
-
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 1699
- 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. 104-105, no. 1699.
C. A. Kuehn, ‘A New Papyrus of a Dioscorian Poem and Marriage Contract: P.Berol. inv. no. 21334’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 97 (1993), pp. 103–115 (p. 106, n. 14).
F. Lemaire, ‘Antimisthosis in the Dioscorus Archiv’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 397-408 (p. 403, n. 26).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)