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Papyrus 1729
- Record Id:
- 040-003725818
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112872448.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470450.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1729
- Title:
- Lease of a Boat (P.Lond. V 1714, TM 19731)
- Scope & Content:
- Acknowledgment by Aurelius Pecysis, a sailor of the Antaiopolite nome, of a four-year lease of a boat with a capacity of about 300 artabas, which he is renting from Flavius Theodorus, son of Menas. The description of the boat is provided. The document was written by Dioscorus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725818 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1729 : Lease of a Boat (P.Lond. V 1714, TM 19731) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2096]/040-003725818
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Dark-brown papyrus sheet, imperfect at the bottom and with damage along the horizontal fold lines; with writing on one side. The back is blank. On the front, there are 52 lines written across the fibres, with the exception of the first 8 lines, which run along the fibres and are written on the first sheet, having opposite fibre direction. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470450.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0570
- End Date:
- 0570
- Date Range:
- 14 March 570
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 760 x 300 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 830 x 360 mm.
Script: Hand B of Dioscorus.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Antinoopolis, Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1714
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 311.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 147-9, no. 1714.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 304.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten V (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1969), p. 59.
Alain Blanchard, ‘Sur quelques interprétations de ΧΜΓ’, in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrologists, Oxford, 24—31 July 1974 (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 61) (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1975), pp. 19-24, with pl. XI.
John R. Martindale (ed.), The prosopography of the later Roman Empire Vol. III (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 876.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 126.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)