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Papyrus 2227
- Record Id:
- 040-003718346
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110345350.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467409.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2227
- Title:
- Sale of Land (SB III 6612, TM 18823)
- Scope & Content:
- Copy of the contract for the sale of forty-nine aruras of private land and twelve aruras of royal land located near the village of Sinkepha, purchased by Aurelius Polybius, son of Melas and Taor, from Aurelius Heraclides, son of Dioscurides, former head of the city council (prytanis) of Oxyrhynchus. The contract is in the form of an antiprasis, or counterpart of sale, addressed to the vendor from the buyer.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003718346 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2227 : Sale of Land (SB III 6612, TM 18823) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1987]/040-003718346
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete but slightly damaged along the left-hand edge and the vertical folds; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 23 lines running along the fibres. The left margin is slightly damaged, the other are extant. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467409.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0365
- End Date:
- 0365
- Date Range:
- 22 October 365
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 284 x 190 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 335 x 245 mm.
Script: Proficient cursive hand slightly sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.
- Former External References:
- SB III 6612
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘An Epoch in the Agrarian History of Egypt’, in Recueil d'études égyptologiques dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion (Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1922), pp. 261-70.
Edward M. Thomspon, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, second series, parts viii–ix (London: Oxford University Press, 1924), no. 137.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter, 1926), no. 6612.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)