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Papyrus 146
- Record Id:
- 040-003711578
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109722603.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465634.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 146
- Title:
- Declaration of Property (P.Lond. II 146, TM 11629)
- Scope & Content:
- Supplementary declaration submitted to the keepers of the records of real estates in the Arsinoite nome from Miccalus, son of Ptolemaeus alias Petheus the elder, from Karanis, reporting his purchase of six aruras of settlers’ land near Bakchias, bought from Theodote, daughter of Dionysius, for 3250 silver drachmas. At the end there is the docket certifying that the declaration was deposited in the archive.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003711578 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 146 : Declaration of Property (P.Lond. II 146, TM 11629) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1959]/040-003711578
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete, with some damage along the folds; with writing on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are 22 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465634.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-

- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0074
- End Date:
- 0074
- Date Range:
- 6 April 74
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 240 x 115 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 290 x 170 mm.
Script: Quick cursive hand; second cursive hand in the last two lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 139-176 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 2 February 1891.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 146 descr.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 397.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xiv, no. 146 descr.
W. Graham Claytor, ‘Two papyri from the archive of Mikkalos and the establishment of the bibliotheke enkteseon’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 57 (2020), 19-42 (20-26 no. 1, with pl.).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Miccalus, 77-106
- Places:
- Karanis, Egypt
- Related Material:
- The papyrus is part of the ‘Archive of Mikkalos son of Ptolemaios alias Petheus the elder’ (TM Arch ID 602).