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Papyrus 1954
- Record Id:
- 040-003678012
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104781965.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466884.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1954
- Title:
- Loan of Wheat (P.Fam.Tebt. 4 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 4, TM 10751)
- Scope & Content:
- Loan of 9 2/3 artabas of wheat bearing interest, the lessor being Lysimachus, son of Didymus, aged 32, and the lessees Chaeremon and Cronion, sons of Acusilaus, aged 25 and 22 respectively. Chaeremon and Cronion are mutual security and shall return the wheat in the month of Payni; with subscriptions at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678012 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1954 : Loan of Wheat (P.Fam.Tebt. 4 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 4, TM 10751) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1722]/040-003678012
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, lacking the lower left corner and damaged by insect holes throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 34 lines; lines 24-34 lack the beginnings. The upper margin is extant, the left and lower partly survive; no margin was left on the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466884.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0094
- End Date:
- 0094
- Date Range:
- 5 January 94
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 230 x 125 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 180 mm.
Script: Thin, upright cursive hand; same hand as in Papyrus 1968 (=P.Tebt.Fam. 2); two additional hands for the subscriptions from line 25, with the first being the same as the second hand in Papyrus 1968; perhaps fourth hand in the first line, written in the upper margin and reading ‘authentic’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Tebtynis, meris of Polemon, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Tebtynis, meris of Polemon, Arsinoite nome, Egypt (?). Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Fam.Tebt. 4
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 4 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
B. A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis (Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1950), pp. 22-24, no. 4.
F. Mitthof, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung von Urkunden’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132 (2000), pp. 223-224 (p. 223) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 113.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)