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Papyrus 839
- Record Id:
- 040-003689036
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106145549.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469359.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 839
- Title:
- Sale of a Cow (P.Sarap. 11, P.Lond. III 839, TM 17025)
- Scope & Content:
- Sale of a reddish cow with guarantee at a price of 62 drachmas from Harpaesis, registered in the quarter of West Fort in Hermopolis, to Anubion, son of Sarapion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003689036 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 839 : Sale of a Cow (P.Sarap. 11, P.Lond. III 839, TM 17025) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1810]/040-003689036
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Square-shaped papyrus sheet, with some surface damage and abrasion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 13 lines running along the fibres; margins are extant, the right and lower being minimal. Folding lines are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469359.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0128
- End Date:
- 0128
- Date Range:
- 1 March 128
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 97 x 100 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 155 x 155 mm.
Script: Cursive hand, untidy and somewhat irregular.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 835-878 by the executors of William Joseph Myers, F. S. A., (b. 1858, d. 1899) through R. Taylor in 1900.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 839
P.Sarap. 11 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 440.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. 140, no. 839.
J. Schwartz, Les archives de Sarapion et de ses fils. Une exploitation agricole aux environs d'Hermoupolis Magna (de 90 à 133 P.C.) (Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 1961), pp. 48-49, no. 11.
D. P. Kehoe, Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 40) (Bonn: R. Habelt 1992), pp. 67-72.
N. Litinas, ‘Corrigenda Varia’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117 (1997), pp. 210-212 (p. 211).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 241.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘Sale of Movables’, in J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (eds.), Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), pp. 307-308, no. 6.4.2.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)