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Papyrus 3
- Record Id:
- 040-003725662
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112460514.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471467.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3
- Title:
- Antigraphum Greyanum (P.Lond. I 3, UPZ II 175a, Chrest.Mitt. 129, TM 3576)
- Scope & Content:
- Copy of the deed of sale by Onnophris, son of Horus and Senpoeris, to his brother Horus (father of Osoroeris), both choachytai (mortuary priests responsible for libations and food-offerings to the dead), of a share of religious services, including mummies and the rights to look after them. The list of the mummies is given, followed by the names of sixteen witnesses. There follows the copy of the receipt of the banker Lysimachus, acknowledging the payment of the tax on sales. The text is a translation of the demotic contract preserved in a Berlin papyrus (inv. no. 3119), published as UPZ II 175b.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725662 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3 : Antigraphum Greyanum (P.Lond. I 3, UPZ II 175a, Chrest.Mitt. 129, TM 3576) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2081]/040-003725662
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Medium-brown papyrus, complete and well preserved, with some surface damage along the vertical folds on the left-hand side; the writing runs on one side, and the back is blank. On the front, there are two columns of 30 and 14 lines respectively; margins are extant; a sheet-join runs down the centre. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471467.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0145
- End Date:
- -0145
- Date Range:
- 5 January 145 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 310 x 450 mmò housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 510 mm.
Script: Small, regular and proficient cursive hand; lines tend to incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Dios Polis (Thebest East), Egypt.
Provenance: Memnoneia, Djeme (Thebes West)?, Egypt. Allegedly, found in a jar in a tomb. Purchased from the Reverend George Francis Grey (b. 1794, d. 1854) in 1823, who had acquired the papyrus in January 1820.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 129
P.Lond. I 3
P.Survey 12b
UPZ II 175a - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1839), pp. 1-5, no. I.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 44-48, no. 3, with facsimile 27.
Ludwig Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1912), pp. 143-4, no. 129.
Ulrich Wilcken, Urkunden der Ptolemäerzeit (Ältere Funde) II. Band. Lieferung 2, Papyri aus Oberägypten (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1934), pp. 129-32, no. 175a.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 466.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), pp. 500-501.
Pieter W. Pestman, The Archive of the Theban Choachytes (Second Century BC): A Survey of the Demotic and Greek Papyri Contained in the Archive (Leuven: A. Peeters, 1993), pp. 75-6, no. 12B descr.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 364-5.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 281.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)