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Papyrus 1643
- Record Id:
- 040-003678498
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105330834.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465861.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1643
- Title:
- Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1694, TM 19712)
- Scope & Content:
- Aurelius Mathias son of Ponnis and Aurelius Ibeis son of Apollos acknowledge that they have subleased from Besarion, Dioscorus’ uncle, a plot of land belonging to the Holy New Church that Besarion was renting. Lessees and lessors share duties and expenses, and the produce will be divided in half, one share being for the lessor and the other for the lessees on account of their labour. The rent is to be paid in kind. With subscriptions at the end and possibly the endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003678498 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1643 : Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1694, TM 19712) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1768]/040-003678498
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, darker on the left-hand side; damaged at the top and bottom; with a break along one vertical fold and surface damage in places; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 30 lines running along the fibres; side margins are minimal. On the back, there is one word written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465861.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0516
- End Date:
- 0517
- Date Range:
- 516-517 (?)
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 265 x 199 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 255 mm.
Script: Small, sloping cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1865, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1694
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 94-97, no. 1694.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 46.
J. Hengstl, Private Arbeitsverhältnisse freier Personen in den hellenistischen Papyri bis Diokletian (Bonn: Habelt 1972), pp. 73-77.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Notes on absentee landlordism at Aphrodito’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 137-169.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 92.
A. Jördens, Vertragliche Regelungen von Arbeiten im späten griechischsprachigen Ägypten (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag 1990), pp. 233-259.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 191.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 147.
J. Urbanik, ‘Diligent Carpenters in Dioskoros’ Papyri and the Justinianic (?) Standard of Diligence*. On P. Cairo Masp. II 67158 and 67159’, in J. Urbanik (ed.), Culpa. Facets of Liability in Ancient Legal Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Warsaw 17–19 February 2011. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement XIX (Warsaw: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity, University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Papyrology, The Raphael Taubenschlag Foudation, 2012), pp. 273-296 (pp. 287-288).
A. Jördens, ‘Roman and Byzantine labor contracts’ in J. G. Keenan et al. (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 429-430, no. 8.2.12.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)