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Papyrus 1703
- Record Id:
- 040-003725869
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113048670.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470392.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1703
- Title:
- Receipt for Rent (P.Lond. V 1784, TM 38861)
- Scope & Content:
- Receipt issued to Leontius by the Holy Church of Hermopolis through its administrator (pronoetes) Colluthus, recording three payments for rent on land made between the end of July and August. The back bears the endorsement.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725869 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1703 : Receipt for Rent (P.Lond. V 1784, TM 38861) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2102]/040-003725869
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, square-shaped, complete but damaged down the centre; written on both sides. On the front, there are nine lines written across the fibres and imperfect. All margins are extant, the upper, right and left being minimal. On the back, there is one line written along the fibres at the top of the sheet, the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470392.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0600
- End Date:
- 0699
- Date Range:
- 7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 148 x 179 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 230 mm.
Script: Mostly upright hand of medium size, same as Papyrus 1782(B). Three inks and pens used. Rapid cursive hand in ink turned brown on the back.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite 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 1784
- 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), p. 241, no. 1784.
Ewa Wipszycka, ‘Les factions du cirque et les biens ecclésiastiques dans un papyrus égyptien’, Byzantion 39 (1969), 180-98.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 193.
Philip Venticinque, ‘Receipt from the Holy Church of God at Hermopolis’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011), 89-97.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)