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Papyrus 2944
- Record Id:
- 040-003711531
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109624841.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468510.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2944
- Title:
- Loan of Money (P.Hib. I 88, TM 2819)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment from mummy cartonnage of a loan of 160 silver drachmas, given by Sostratus to a man whose name is damaged. Penalty applies should the borrower fail to pay the loan back within the agreed time.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003711531 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2944 : Loan of Money (P.Hib. I 88, TM 2819) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1954]/040-003711531
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off on the left and at the bottom. On the front, there are the ends of 14 lines written along the fibres; on the back, there are traces of lines which may be offsets from another papyrus which was part of the same cartonnage and plaster residues. The modern annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468510.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0263
- Date Range:
- August-September 263 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 100 x 49 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 180 mm.
Script: Thin, neat and upright hand, with no ligatures; some letterforms are smaller and occupy only the upper part of the writing line; a few stems descend below the line; the foot of some uprights slightly turn to the right; omega is in two shapes (see line 2).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Phebichis, Herakleopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Resued as mummy cartonnage (Mummy A17). Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.
- Former External References:
- P.Hib. I 88
- Publications:
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Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 251-252, no. 88, with pl. x.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 465.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1969), p. 46.
Eric G. Turner, ‘Ptolemaic bookhands and Lille Stesichorus’, Scrittura e Civiltà 4 (1980), pp. 19-40 (pl. 11 a).
W. Clarysse, G. van Derveken, The Eponymous Priests of Ptolemaic Egypt: Chronological Lists of the Priests of Alexandria and Ptolemais with a Study of the Demotic Transcriptions of their Names (P.L. Bat. 24) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1983), pp. 3, 7, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 108.
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri III.1 (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann 1990), p. 167, pl. 22.
Demokritos Kaltsas, Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung. Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2001), p. 105, n. 140.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 91.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Disiecta colligere: un'antologia gnomica tra Londra e Heidelberg (P. Grenf. II 6b + O. Hib. II 224 + P. Heid. inv. G. 434)?’, Analecta Papyrologica 25 (2013), 65-78 (p. 76, pl. 1 b).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)