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Papyrus 1957
- Record Id:
- 040-003678043
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104790708.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466908.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1957
- Title:
- Receipt of Money (P.Fam.Tebt. 10 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 10, TM 10727)
- Scope & Content:
- Castor, son of Cronion and Apollonarion, aged 22, acknowledges receipt of 401 silver drachmas and 2 obols from Heraclides, son of Maron, his uncle; the sum is one third of what was still owed by Heraclides to Apollonarion’s sons out of 2000 silver drachmas, bequeathed to Apollonarion by her mother Thaubarion. With subscriptions of Castor and Heraclides and official docket of the record-office at the end. Papyrus 1951 (P.Tebt.Fam. 7) is another receipt issued by Castor’s brother, who was paid the same sum few years earlier.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678043 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1957 : Receipt of Money (P.Fam.Tebt. 10 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 10, TM 10727) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1725]/040-003678043
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, broken off at the bottom and mutilated on the left, complete at the top and right; with insect-holes throughout; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 39 lines, the majority of which lack few letters at the beginning; lines 38-39 are very fragmentary; one additional line is lost at the bottom. The upper margin is extant and ample; no margin was left on the right. Vertical folds are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466908.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0108
- End Date:
- 0108
- Date Range:
- 27 February 108
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 231 x 143 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 290 x 200 mm.
Script: Regular, thin, rapid cursive hand; two hands for the subscriptions from line 33.
- Custodial History:
-
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. 10
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 10 - 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. 32-35, no. 10.
D. Hagedorn, ‘Noch einmal: Who got the Contract?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998), pp. 177–180 (p. 177).
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.
R. Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion 2003), pp. 124-125, no. 64.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)