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Papyrus 1620
- Record Id:
- 040-003679164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105498953.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465801.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1620
- Title:
- Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1693, TM 19711)
- Scope & Content:
- Conclusion of a lease of land at a rent of two artabas of wheat and two of barley per arura; the lessee is Aurelius Victor, son of Hermauos, and the name of the lessor is lost. With subscription of Victor at the end written by Flavius Theotecnus and endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003679164 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1620 : Lease of Land (P.Lond. V 1693, TM 19711) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1781]/040-003679164
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Lower portion of a light-medium brown papyrus sheet, slightly damage on the left (front), otherwise well preserved; written on both sides. On the front there are 19 lines from the foot of a column, running long the fibres; side and lower margins are lost. On the back, there are traces of one one line written along the fibres at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465801.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0523
- End Date:
- 0524
- Date Range:
- 523-524 (?)
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 172 x 161 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 210 mm.
Script: Proficient cursive hand with a slant to the right; different hand, irregular, smaller and rapid, for the subscription in the last four lines.
- Custodial History:
-
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 1693
- 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. 93-94, no. 1693.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1964), p. 46.
J. G. Keenan, ‘Notes on absentee landlordism at Aphrodito’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 137-169 (passim).
G. Ruffini, ‘Aphrodito before Dioskoros’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 45 (2008), pp. 225-239 (p. 231, n. 28).
J.-L. Fournet, ‘Liste des papyrus édités de l’Aphrodité byzantine’, in Les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte - histoire et culture dans l'Égypte byzantine: actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 8-10 décembre 2005 (Paris: de Boccard 2008), pp. 307-343 (p. 331).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)