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Papyrus 1959
- Record Id:
- 040-003678337
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105134638.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466923.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1959
- Title:
- Offer to Lease (P.Fam.Tebt. 47 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 47, TM 10756)
- Scope & Content:
- Herakleos son of Maximus, of Arsinoe, offers to lease from Philantinous alias Herodes and Tanouphis and Didyme, assisted by him, three aruras of land located near the village of Theogonis for a period of four years. The rent is to be paid in kind. The land can be sown with any crop but safflower. Transport-charges shall be paid by the lessee, who will also give some artabas of wheat for the donkey-tax, while the other taxes are on the lessors. With subscription of Herakleos and date at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678337 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1959 : Offer to Lease (P.Fam.Tebt. 47 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 47, TM 10756) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1755]/040-003678337
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-dark brown, with surface damage and breaks along the vertical folds on the left; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 34 lines, complete; blank space was left between lines 30 and 31, and 31 and 32. Lines 2-3, 31, 34 are indented. Margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466923.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0195
- End Date:
- 0195
- Date Range:
- 14 August 195
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 236 x 120 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 175 mm.
Script: Skilled, neat upright hand, more cursive in places; enlarged pi in line 3.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Krokodilopolis, 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. 47
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 47 - 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. 154-156, no. 45.
G. Hübsch, Die personalangaben als Identifizierungsvermerke im Recht der gräko-ägyptischen Papyri (Berlin: 1968), p. 50.
W. Clarysse, ‘On the Early History of the Verb ἀπομένω’, in B. Janssens, B. Roosen, P. Van Deun (eds.), Philomathestatos: Studies in Greek and Byzantine Texts Presented to Jacques Noret for his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Études de patristique grecque et textes byzantins offerts à Jacques Noret à l’occasion de ses soixante-cinq ans (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 137) (Leuven-Dudley, MA: Uitgeverij Peeters en Dep. Oosterse Studies 2004), pp. 57-61. (pp. 60-61).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)