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Papyrus 3089
- Record Id:
- 040-003720816
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111083309.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471718.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3089
- Title:
- Loan agreement, and unrelated fragment
- Scope & Content:
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1+2+4+5: Loan agreement for 300 bronze drachmas, concluded in Lycopolis between the cavalry settler Neilos, son of Apollonios (lender) and Taseis daughter of Thotsytes (borrower), with Horos, son of Horos acting as guardian, followed by a list of six witnesses. Reserved for publication.
3: Unidentified document referring to a certain Dionysios.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720816 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3089 : Loan agreement, and unrelated fragment - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2028]/040-003720816
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Five papyrus fragments from mummy cartonnage (traces of plaster), housed in the same glass frame:
1+2+4+5: Four fragments of the same incomplete papyrus, written on both sides (24+4 lines along the fibres on recto, 4 lines against the fibres on verso), with lower, left and right margin (recto) partly extant.
3: Fragment of a papyrus, written on one side (2 lines along the fibres), with left margin partly extant.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471718.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0199
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- 2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fr. 1: 182 x 122 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 230 mm.
Script: Documentary hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt.
Provenance: Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt. Mummy cartonnage derived from excavations by David George Hogarth in Asyut in 1906-1907; purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 3085-3098, and incorporated into the collection in September 1978. Papyri 3085-3093 come from the same mummy.
- Publications:
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Willy Clarysse, ‘Ptolemaic papyri from Lycopolis’, in J. Bingen & G. Nachtergael (eds.), Actes du XVe Congrès International de Papyrologie (Brussels: Fondation égyptologique Reine Élisabeth 1979), p. 106.
Gert Baetens, ‘An Embalmers’ Dispute in Hypsele/Shashotep’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 66 (2020), 274.
Metadata received from the Ancient History Department at the Catholic University of Leuven.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Neilos, cavalry settler, 2nd century BC
Taseis, 2nd century BC - Places:
- Assiut, Egypt
- Related Material:
- British Museum EA10542-10544, EA10550 (?) and EA76523 contain Hieratic, Demotic, Arabic and blank fragments from the same excavations. Papyri 3085-3093 come from one set of mummy cartonnage.