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Papyrus 1791
- Record Id:
- 040-003678191
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104971338.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466277.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1791
- Title:
- Surety Bond (P.Lond. V 1732, TM 19747)
- Scope & Content:
- Iakob, an otherwise unknown boatman, guarantees to Patermouthis that two other persons will appear at an arbitration hearing before a judge and will accept his decision. He supports his guarantee with a pledge of three gold solidi. Presumably Patermouthis was a party in the arbitration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678191 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1791 : Surety Bond (P.Lond. V 1732, TM 19747) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1743]/040-003678191
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus, complete, all margins preserved; 10 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466277.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0586
- End Date:
- 0586
- Date Range:
- 16 August 586
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 151 x 325 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 385 mm.
Script: documentary script, Byzantine cursive; scribe: Aurelius Iacob, son of Apa Dios.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Assuan, 1st nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt.
Provenance: Assuan/Syene, 1st nome of Upper Egypt, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1787-1820 from Robert de Rustafjaell in February 1907.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1732
- Publications:
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Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 191-192, no. 1732.
J. M. Diethart, K. A. Worp, Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten (Wien: Hollinek 1986), Syene 4.1.1.
J. J. Farber, B. Porten, ‘The Patermouthis Archive: A Third Look’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 23 (1986), pp. 81-98.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Evidence for the Byzantine Army in the Syene Papyri’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 27 (1990), pp. 139-150.
J. J. Farber, in B. Porten, The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change (Leiden: Brill 1996), pp. 520-521, no. D 44.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p.107
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 121.
J. H. F. Dijkstra, Philae and the End of ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) (Leuven: Peeters 2008), pp. 65-70.
Metadata provided by the ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)