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Papyrus 1551
- Record Id:
- 040-003779626
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114510277.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470109.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1551
- Title:
- Leases of Land (P.Lond V 1692, TM 19709-19710)
- Scope & Content:
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Two leases between Flavius Dioscorus, son of Apollos, and the shepherd Aurelius Georgius, son of Psais.
Column 1: Georgius acknowledges that he has leased some land from Dioscorus for one year. With subscriptions of the lessee (written by someone else as he is illiterate), of a witness and of the notary Hermauos. Dated 3 May 555.
Column 2: Renewal of the same lease for the following year, with the addition of another plot of land. With subscriptions of the lessee (written by someone else as he is illiterate), four witnesses and of the notary Hermauos; presumably dated 3 May 556.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779626 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1551 : Leases of Land (P.Lond V 1692, TM 19709-19710) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2165]/040-003779626
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-to-dark brown papyrus, damaged along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres. The back is blank. On the front, there are two columns of 24 and 26 lines respectively. Upper and lower margins are extant, the left margin partly survives. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470109.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0555
- End Date:
- 0556
- Date Range:
- 555-556
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 292 x 495 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 560 mm.
Script: Proficient, rather compressed sloping cursive hand, with different hands for the subscriptions in both columns.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), Egypt.
Provenance: Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau), 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 1692
- 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. Vol. V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 90-93, no. 1692.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 304.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958), p. 98.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964), p. 46.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 146-74.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 107.
Roger S. Bagnall, Klaas A. Worp, The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt, 2nd ed. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2004), p. 55.
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Superlatives for the Deceased’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 22 (2007), 214-216 (p. 215) = 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)