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Papyrus 2143
- Record Id:
- 040-003718484
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110367106.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467295.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2143
- Title:
- Lease of Fishing Rights (SB XVIII 13150, TM 27661)
- Scope & Content:
- Six-year lease of fishing rights in the lands belonging to the lessor located near Terythis, in the Oxyrhynchite nome, at an annual rent of 240 drachmas, with some extraordinary payments including thirty jars of fish sauce and a few jars of a variety of fish. The lessor shall provide stakes, the lessee nets and all the remaining equipment. The lessee is Ammonius, son of Ammonius, of Oxyrhynchus; the name of the lessor is damaged, but he is a former gymnasiarch, son of Diogenes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003718484 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2143 : Lease of Fishing Rights (SB XVIII 13150, TM 27661) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1991]/040-003718484
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom and damaged by large holes on the left-hand side; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 29 lines written along the fibres, the last of which are very fragmentary; upper and left margins are extant, while no margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467295.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 200 x 70 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 115 mm.
Script: Professional upright cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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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 XVIII 13150
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
George M. Parássoglou, ‘A Lease of Fishing Rights’, Aegyptus 67 (1987), 89-93, with plate.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993), no. 13150.
Joachim Hengstl, ‘Zur Boden-Nutzung im römischen Ägypten: Fischerei-Pacht-Verträge’, in Grund und Boden in Altägypten. Akten des internationalen Symposions, Tübingen 18.-20. Juni 1990 = Untersuchungen zum Rechtsleben im alten Ägypten. 2 (Tübingen: Im Selbstverlag des Herausgebers 1994), pp. 275-84.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)