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Papyrus 1977
- Record Id:
- 040-003678218
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104995255.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466970.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1977
- Title:
- Agreement on a Pledge (P.Fam.Tebt. 40 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 40, SB IV 7364, TM 10752)
- Scope & Content:
- Copy of the agreement between Philantinous alias Nilammon and his brother Lysimachus concerning Martilla, the female slave that Philantinous had pledged to a creditor (see Papyrus 1983). Philantinous agrees to produce a copy of the hypothecation to prove that he had pledged only one-third of the girl; should he fail to do so, he undertakes to pay a fine.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678218 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1977 : Agreement on a Pledge (P.Fam.Tebt. 40 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 40, SB IV 7364, TM 10752) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1747]/040-003678218
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, incomplete, broken off at the bottom and left, and badly riddled with insect holes; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, portions of 20 lines survive, lacking the beginnings. The column breaks off at the bottom. 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_100147466970.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0173
- End Date:
- 0174
- Date Range:
- 173-174
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 147 x 112 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 165 mm.
Script: Upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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. 40
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 40
SB IV 7364 - 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.
H. I. Bell, 'A Family Dispute concerning Hypothecation', in Studi in Onore di P. Bonfante 3 (1929), pp. 61-67 (no. 2).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band IV (Heidelberg: Verfassers 1931), no. 7364.
B. A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis (Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1950), pp. 138-140, no. 40.
M. Malouta, ‘Antinoite Citizenship under Hadrian and Antoninus Pius A Prosopographical Study of the First Thirty Years of Antinoopolis’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009), pp. 81-96 (p. 87).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)