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Papyrus 3108
- Record Id:
- 040-003720842
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111170422.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471825.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3108
- Title:
- Loan of Money or Advance Sale (P.Michael. 35, TM 37342)
- Scope & Content:
- Loan of money with repayment in wheat, or sale with deferred delivery, between the public weigher (zygostates) Victor, who is the creditor or buyer, and David, son of Pamuthius; with the subscription of the notary Colluthus in Latin characters at the end, and endorsement on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003720842 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3108 : Loan of Money or Advance Sale (P.Michael. 35, TM 37342) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2033]/040-003720842
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Long and narrow medium-brown papyrus sheet, made up of three fragments, with writing on both sides. On the front, there is a column of 26 lines written along the fibres; side and lower margins are extant and minimal, the upper margin is lost. On the back, there is one line written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471825.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0652
- End Date:
- 0652
- Date Range:
- 2 April 652 (?)
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 259 x 63 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 185 mm.
Script: Proficient, upright cursive hand; same hand as a papyrus in Florence published as PSI X 1122. Different cursive hand, sloping to the right, for the subscription at the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Acquired with other Michaelides material, including Papyri 3100-3131, in April 1979 and transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books in May 1979. Formerly part of the private collection of Georges Anastase Michaelides (b. 1900, d. 1973), antiquities dealer in Cairo, sold by his heirs after his death, under the inventory number 1443.
- Former External References:
- P.Michael. 35
- Publications:
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David S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae: being a catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri, tablets and ostraca in the library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo (Aberdeen: The Aberdeen University Press, for the Egypt Exploration Society 1955), pp. 60-63, no. 35.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1969), p. 68.
Johannes M. Diethart, Klaas A. Worp, Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten (Byz. Not.) (Wien: Hollinek, 1986), p. 82, Oxy. 10.1.2, with plate 44.
Marc De Groote, ‘Zygostatai in Egypt from 363 A.D. Onwards: A Papyrological Prosopography’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 39 (2002) 27-40 (p. 33).
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Seventh-Century Oxyrhynchite Documents in the Beinecke Library’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 153 (2005) 169-71 (p. 171) = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 135.
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Textual Notes on Oxyrhynchite Documents’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 30 (2015), 227-9, no. 802.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Colluthus, notary in Oxyrhynchus, 7th century
David, 7th century
Victor, official weigher (zygostates), 7th century - Places:
- Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt