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Papyrus 974
- Record Id:
- 040-003695543
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100107511394.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469637.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 974
- Title:
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Surety for Fruit-Buyer (P.Lond. III 974, Chrest.Wilck. 429, TM 22753)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragmentary surety for a man to act as a city contractor for the fruit supply (karpones) of the city of Hermopolis, the name of the guarantor being lost. The second column preserves the same text, but whether it concerns the same fruit-buyer and the same guarantor remains uncertain.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003695543 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 974 : Surety for Fruit-Buyer (P.Lond. III 974, Chrest.Wilck. 429, TM 22753) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1862]/040-003695543
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, imperfect at the top, bottom and left; darker along the upper edge; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, portions of two columns survive. The right margin and the intercolumn are extant. A sheet-join is visible at c. x mm from the left. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469637.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0306
- End Date:
- 0306
- Date Range:
- June 306
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 120 x 278 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 175 x 330 mm.
Script: Skilled and regular cursive hand, thin and with a slight slant to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 885-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Wilck. 429
P.Lond. III 974 - 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. 441.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), pp. 115-116, no. 974, with pl. 66.
U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. I.II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 506-507, no. 429.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 279.
R. S. Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 87, n. 265.
R. Ziegler, ‘Bemerkungen zur Datierung dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996), pp. 157-161 (p. 158).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 101.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 112.
R. S. Bagnall, K. A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2004), p. 242.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)