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Papyrus 869
- Record Id:
- 040-003689763
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106283147.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469426.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 869
- Title:
- Rent for Part of a House (SB XVIII 13620, P.Lond. III 869 descr., TM 18383)
- Scope & Content:
- Contract for the lease of two-thirds of a house located in Hermopolis, with courtyard and well, for an indefinite period at a rent of 8,000 talents. With subscription of one of the parties, of two witnesses and of the notary through his assistant.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003689763 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 869 : Rent for Part of a House (SB XVIII 13620, P.Lond. III 869 descr., TM 18383) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1823]/040-003689763
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, lacking part of the left portion and with surface damage in places; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 19 lines running along the fibres and lacking the beginnings. Upper, lower and right margins survive. Folding lines are still visible. The papyrus is housed in glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469426.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0473
- End Date:
- 0473
- Date Range:
- 14 September 473
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 300 x 264 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 350 x 310 mm.
Script: Thin, sloping cursive hand. Three hands for the subscriptions in lines 15-17.
- Custodial History:
-
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 869 descr.
SB XVIII 13620 - 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. xli, no. 869 descr.
G. M. Parássoglou, ‘Enoikiasterio eggrapho apo te Buzantion Aigupto (P. Lond. 869)’, in Mneme Georges A. Petropoulos (1897-1964) (Athenes: Sakkoulas 1984), pp. 201-206.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1993), no. 13620.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 304.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 221.
N. Gonis, ‘P.Oxy. XVI 1964: A Lease of a Room from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132 (2000), pp. 189–192 (p. 191).
R. Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (London-New York: Routledge 2002), p. 111.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)