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Papyrus 1662
- Record Id:
- 040-003534658
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101136813.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465950.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1662
- Title:
- Lease of a Building (P.Lond. V 1691, TM 19708)
- Scope & Content:
- Lease of part of a walled building at a rent of 3,000 talents per year; the lessor is Apollos, father of Dioscorus, and the lessee Aurelius Cyriacus, son of Andreas and Maria, a blacksmith. With subscription of Cyriacus and endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003534658 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1662 : Lease of a Building (P.Lond. V 1691, TM 19708) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1519]/040-003534658
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, darker in places, broken off at the bottom and with some insect holes; the surface is slightly abraded in few places; written on both sides. The front bears one column, of which 21 lines along the fibres survive; upper and side margins survive. On the back, there is one line running along the fibres at the top. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465950.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0532
- End Date:
- 0532
- Date Range:
- 8 March 532
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 247 x 217 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 270 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand; different hand for the subscription in lines 20-21.
- 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 1691
- Publications:
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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. 88-89, no. 1691.
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).
N. Gonis, ‘Consular Epithets and Regionalism in Sixth-Century Egypt’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152 (2005), pp. 183-186 (p. 184).
I. Marthot-Santaniello, ‘Noms de personne ou noms de lieu? La délicate question des ‘toponymes discriminants’ à la lumière des papyrus d’Aphroditê (VIe -VIIIe siècle)’, in A. Nodar, S. Torallas Tovar (eds.), Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology. Barcelona, 1-6 August 2016 (Scripta Orientalia 3) (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Monserrat 2019), pp. 706-713 (p. 707).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)