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Papyrus 2835
- Record Id:
- 040-003652590
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102456956.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471272.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2835
- Title:
- Receipt concerning a Debt (SB XX 15018, TM 38531)
- Scope & Content:
- Ioannes acknowldeges to have received from five village headmen (protokometai) of the village of Aphrodito a document concerning a sum of money, which he will return once the outstanding sum will be paid to him. With subscription of the notary Pilatus, son of Apollos, who is the witness.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Greek Papyri
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003652590 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2835 : Receipt concerning a Debt (SB XX 15018, TM 38531) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1596]/040-003652590
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, lacking part of its left-hand half and damaged on the right too; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There are 13 lines, some of which are mutilated. Upper and lower margins survive to c.10 mm. Left and right margins are damaged. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471272.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0501
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 153 x 306 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 215 x 355 mm.
Script: Proficient and neat upright cursive hand; different hand for the subscription in the last line, more rapid and cursive, slightly sloping.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2784-2849 as share from a joint purchase arranged with the University of Michigan, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957) from various dealers in November and December 1926. Papyri 2823-2849 were purchased from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948). Formally acquired in October 1927.
- Former External References:
- SB XX 15018
- Publications:
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R. Pintaudi, P. J. Sijpesteijn, 'Papiri tardo-bizantini conservati alla British Library', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989), pp. 103-115 (pp. 110-112, no. 5, with pl.).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XX (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz 1997), no. 15018.
J.-L. Fournet, C. Magdelaine (eds.), Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte: histoire et culture dans l'Egypte byzantine: actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 8-10 décembre 2005 (Paris: De Boccard 2008), pp. 332, 339.
T. M. Hickey, Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt: The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus. New texts from ancient cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2012), p. 71, n. 55.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Dioscorus of Aphrodito, poet and administrator, 6th century
- Places:
- Kôm Ishgau, Egypt; the site of Aphrodito
- Related Material:
- The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Dioskoros (TM Arch ID 72).