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Papyrus 3117
- Record Id:
- 040-003724704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111638344.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471874.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3117
- Title:
- Fragmentary Contracts (P.Michael. 56, TM 37350, 218356)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 37350): Fragment of a sale; details and names of the parties are lost.
Verso (TM 218356): Fragment of the contract of a lease from the late sixth century; unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003724704 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3117 : Fragmentary Contracts (P.Michael. 56, TM 37350, 218356) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2050]/040-003724704
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a dark-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the top, bottom and left, and more complete on the right; writing runs on both sides. On the front, there are 6 lines written across the fibres, lacking the beginnings. On the back, there are 9 lines written along the fibres, lacking the beginnings; lines 1 and 9 are more fragmentary. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471874.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 55 x 185 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 330 x 255 mm.
Script: Recto: Proficient, rather upright cursive hand; Verso: Sloping, somewhat untidy cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite 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 1435.
- Former External References:
- P.Michael. 56
- 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), p. 125, no. 56.
Jean-Luc Fournet, ‘Sur les premiers documents juridiques coptes (2): Les archives de Phoibammônet de Kollouthos’, in Seizièmes journées d’études coptes, Jun 2013, Genève, Suisse. Études coptes XIV (Paris: de Boccard 2016), pp. 115-41 (p. 131 nos. 34-5).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)