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Papyrus 1889
- Record Id:
- 040-003725046
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112116876.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470598.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1889
- Title:
- Report of Legal Proceedings (SB I 5761, TM 13999)
- Scope & Content:
- Court protocol concerned with a dispute over inheritance. Ptolema, a minor, had inherited a house and some land from her late father, sold by her guardians to repay the debts incurred. Ptolema demands that Apia, wife of one of the creditors, returns what she was given to repay a debt connected to a lease with advance payment.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725046 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1889 : Report of Legal Proceedings (SB I 5761, TM 13999) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2063]/040-003725046
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll, broken off on the left and with damage along the vertical folds; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 2 columns written along the fibres; the second is complete, the first lacks a few letters at the beginnings of the lines; upper, lower and right margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470598.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0089
- End Date:
- 0091
- Date Range:
- 89-91
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 250 x 385 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 430 mm.
Script: Practised official hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd-el-Haj on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- SB I 5761
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum, 1969), p. 475.
E. M. Thompson, G. F. Warner, F. G. Kenyon, J. P. Gilson, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, first series, part x (London: Photographed and printed by H. Hart at the Oxford University Press, 1903), pl. 226.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, 1915), no. 5761.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1933), p. 120.
Rudolph Haensch, ‘Zur Konventsordnung in Aegyptus und den übrigen Provinzen des römischen Reiches’, in Akten des 21. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Berlin, 13.—19. 8. 1995, ed. by Bärbel Kramer, Wolfgan Luppe, Herwig Maehler, Gunter Poethke (Stuttgart –Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1997), pp. 320-91 (p. 350).
Dennis P. Kehoe, Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 65.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 66.
Benjamin Kelly, Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 377.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)