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Papyrus 1917
- Record Id:
- 040-003678428
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105271063.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466776.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1917
- Title:
- Contract with Flageolet-Players (P.Fam.Tebt. 54 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 54, SB III 6946, TM 10761)
- Scope & Content:
- Aurelius Philosarapis son of Lysimachus hires Aurelius Onnophris, flageolet-player, and three other trained musicians to perform for six days on the occasion of a festival in Tebtynis. The salary is 18 drachmas per day, with one other day unpaid, in addition to a gratuity of 6 drachmas; provisions for the commute are also made.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678428 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1917 : Contract with Flageolet-Players (P.Fam.Tebt. 54 = Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 54, SB III 6946, TM 10761) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1763]/040-003678428
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, mutilated at the bottom, riddled with insect-holes throughout and abraded in few places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 23 lines, with the last two being very fragmentary. Some blank space was left between lines 21 and 22. Margins survive, with no space having been left on the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466776.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0219
- End Date:
- 0223
- Date Range:
- 219 or 223
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 90 x 50 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 102 mm.
Script: Thin, upright and large cursive hand, occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines.
- 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. 54
Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI 54
SB III 6946 - 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 musician’s contract’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924), pp. 145-146.
W. L. Westermann, ‘Aggiunte e correzioni a pubblicazioni di Papirologia e di Egittologia’, Aegyptus 5 (1924), p. 345, no. 521.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), no. 6946.
F. Weber, Untersuchungen zum gräko-ägyptischen Obligationenrecht: Modalitäten der Leistung im Rechte der Papyri (München: C. H. Beck 1932), pp. 47, 63, 99.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 128.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. Vol. II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), p. 300, no. 187.
S. G. Kapsomenakis, Voruntersuchungen zu einer Grammatik der Papyri der nachchristlichen Zeit (München: Beck 1938), p. 30.
B. A. van Groningen, A Family Archive from Tebtunis (Pap.Lugd.Bat. VI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1950), pp. 172-174, no. 54.
M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp. 35-36, no. 21.
B. Adams, Paramoné und verwandte Texte: Studien zum Dienstvertrag im Rechte der Papyri (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1964), p. 169, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1969), p. 60.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, in J. Maarten Bremer, S. L. Radt, C. J. Ruijgh (eds.), Miscellanea tragica in honorem J.C. Kamerbeek (Amsterdam: Hakkert 1976), p. 427.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 112.
G. Tedeschi, ‘Lo spettacolo in età ellenistica e tardo antica nella documentazione epigrafica e papiracea’, Papyrologica Lupiensia 11 (2002), pp. 87-187 (pp. 161-162, no. 12) = 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)