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Papyrus 2981
- Record Id:
- 040-003713670
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110110381.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468589.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2981
- Title:
- Receipt for Rent (P.Hib. II 209, TM 2833)
- Scope & Content:
- Lysicrates, decurion of the troop of Zoilus, acknowledges receipt of 750 artabas of olyra and some fodder as a rent of his holding paid by Demetrius, son of Ptolemaeus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003713670 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2981 : Receipt for Rent (P.Hib. II 209, TM 2833) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1970]/040-003713670
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Upper portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet with five detached scraps at the bottom, reused as mummy cartonnage; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 12 lines written along the fibres, overall complete, and 12 additional lines, of which only traces survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468589.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0263
- Date Range:
- June-July 263 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 155 x 145 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 215 mm.
Script: Thin, neat and upright hand; some letterforms are smaller and occupy only the upper part of the writing line; same hand as Papyrus 2944 (P.Hib. I 88).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Phebichis, Koites toparchy, Herakleopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy A). 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. II 209
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 125-126, no. 209.
Willy Clarysse, Griet 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.
Werner Huß, ‘Ptolemaios der Sohn ’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 121 (1998), 229-50 (p. 231, no. 12).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)