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Papyrus 1303
- Record Id:
- 040-003616332
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102159416.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464979.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1303
- Title:
- Sale of Barrels (SB XX 14712, P.Lond. III 1303 descr., TM 23794)
- Scope & Content:
- Contract for the sale of 2400 barrels for future delivery, purchased through a priest by a church in the Hermopolite nome, from Aurelius Colluthus, son of Pheus, potter of the village of Phby. With docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003616332 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1303 : Sale of Barrels (SB XX 14712, P.Lond. III 1303 descr., TM 23794) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1588]/040-003616332
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete on the left, broken off at the bottom and right, damaged at the top; with few insect holes in places; written on both sides. The front bears 9 lines running along the fibres, all lacking the ends, with a small trace of a tenth line at the bottom. Additional traces are visible in the upper left corner. The left (15 mm) and partly the upper (20 mm) margins survive. Folding lines are still visible. On the back, there is one line running along the fibres and lacking the end. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464979.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0498
- End Date:
- 0498
- Date Range:
- 498
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 134 x 162 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 185 x 210 mm.
Script: Regular and graceful upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome, 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:
- P.Lond. III 1303 descr.
SB XX 14712 - 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. 445.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxxii, no. 1303 descr.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘οὐράνιος ἡ καὶ ζωοποιὸς μονάζουσα. Kauf von Fässern gegen Vorauszahlung’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 6 (1991), pp. 197-199, with pl. 15.
N. Kruit, ‘Local Customs in the Formulas of Sales of Wine for Future Delivery (A Supplement to P.Heid. V)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 94 (1992), pp. 167-184 (p. 168).
J. Gascou, ‘Notes d'onomastique ecclésiale ancienne (À propos de P.Lond. III 1303 descr.)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 96 (1993), pp. 135-140.
K. A. Worp, ‘A Checklist of Bishops in Byzantine Egypt (A.D. 325- C. 750)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 283–318 (pp. 288, 291, 293).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), no. 14712.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 231.
J. Gascou, ‘Encore une fois sur l’onomastique ecclésiale ancienne’, in M.-A. Vannier (ed.), Anthropos laikos: melanges Alexandre Faivre a l'occasion de ses 30 ans d'enseignement (Fribourg: Editions universitaires Fribourg 2000), pp. 119-120 (pp. 119-120).
A. W. Mees, Organisationsformen römischer Töpfer-Manufakturen am Beispiel von Arezzo und Rheinzabern: unter Berücksichtigung von Papyri, Inschriften und Rechtsquellen (Bonn: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums in Kommission bei R. Habelt 2002), p. 380.
G. Schmelz, Kirchliche Amtsträger im spätantiken Ägypten: nach den Aussagen der griechischen und koptischen Papyri und Ostraka (München: K.G. Saur 2002), p. 192.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (2nd ed.) (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 202.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)