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Papyrus 1985
- Record Id:
- 040-003678032
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104788867.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467012.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1985
- Title:
- Lease of Crops (P.Fam.Tebt. 5 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 5, TM 10757)
- Scope & Content:
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Lease of crops of beans and turnips, the lessee being Polemon, son of Heuremon, and the lessor Hermes, son of Didymus. The rent is to be paid in kind and money (40 drachmas). Transport-charges are partly on the lessor and partly on the lessee; with subscription of Polemon written by someone else as he is illiterate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678032 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1985 : Lease of Crops (P.Fam.Tebt. 5 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 5, TM 10757) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1723]/040-003678032
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, darker in places, lacking the upper left corner and part of the bottom; damaged along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 23 lines; margins survive; no blank space was left on the right. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467012.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0098
- End Date:
- 0098
- Date Range:
- 26 November 98
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 244 x 161 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 295 x 210 mm.
Script: Skilled, thin upright cursive hand; different hand for the subscription from line 21.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Kerkesephis, 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. 5
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 5 - 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)