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Papyrus 2498
- Record Id:
- 040-003726014
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113423762.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470966.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2498
- Title:
- Receipt for Repayment of a Loan and Application for Guardianship (P.Diog. 16, TM 10692)
- Scope & Content:
- Dioscorous, daughter of Hierax, citizen of Alexandria, acting with her guardian, acknowledges repayment of a sum of money that Diogenes had borrowed from her, with the services of Pasistilla alias Kouneinis, slave of Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, provided in place of the interest on the money. Dioscorous renounces to all claims in the future. The documentation concerning Dioscorous’ application for a guardian is appended.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003726014 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2498 : Receipt for Repayment of a Loan and Application for Guardianship (P.Diog. 16, TM 10692) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2120]/040-003726014
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, damaged along the vertical folds, especially on the right, and with some insect holes; with writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 27 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470966.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0207
- End Date:
- 0207
- Date Range:
- 27 November 207
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 218 x 287 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 340 mm.
Script: Neat and competent upright cursive hand, occasionally compressed at the ends of the lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum) (?), Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2486-2542 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1922. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
- Former External References:
- P.Diog. 16
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.
Paul Schubert, Les archives de Marcus Lucretius Diogenes et textes apparentés (Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 39) (Bonn: R. Habelt, 1990), pp. 117-24, no. 16, with plate xi.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 63.
Paul Schubert, Vivre en Égypte greco-romaine: une selection de papyrus (Vevey: Editions de l'Aire, 2000), pp. 59-63, no. 4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)