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Papyrus 1622
- Record Id:
- 040-003719646
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110516471.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470181.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1622
- Title:
- Sale of Wine for Future Delivery (P.Lond. V 1764, TM 36938)
- Scope & Content:
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Conclusion of a contract for the advanced sale of wine by a number of persons in partnership; the names of the parties are lost. Written by the notary Papnuthius; with notarial subscription in Latin characters at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003719646 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1622 : Sale of Wine for Future Delivery (P.Lond. V 1764, TM 36938) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2003]/040-003719646
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-dark brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the top, complete on the other sides; bearing writing on one side. The back is blank. On the front, there are 12 lines from the foot of a column written along the fibres; lower, right and left margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470181.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0575
- End Date:
- 0625
- Date Range:
- late 6th century-early 7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 115 x 155 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 170 x 205 mm.
Script: Regular, rather large upright cursive hand in brownish ink; sloping cursive hands for the subscriptions in the last four lines. Perhaps same hand as P.Hamb. III 221.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1764
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 222-3, no. 1764.
Johannes M. Diethart, Klaas A. Worp, Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten (Byz. Not.) (Wien: Hollinek, 1986), p. 84, no. 16.2.13, with plate 46.
Nico Kruit, ‘Local Customs in the Formulas of Sales of Wine for Future Delivery (A Supplement to P.Heid. V)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 94 (1992), pp. 167-84 (p. 179 and passim).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 193.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 147.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 108.
Éva Jakab, Risikomanagement beim Weinkauf: Periculum und Praxis im Imperium Romanun (München: C.H. Beck 2009), p. 134, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 109.
Todd M. Hickey, Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt: The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2012), p. 66.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)