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Papyrus 1714(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-003780339
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114635911.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100150429694.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1714(A-B)
- Title:
- Receipt for price of vegetable seed (P.Lond. V 1774, TM 19763), and Fragment of a Lease (SB XXVIII 17234, TM 38846)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Lond. V 1774, TM 19763): Beginning of an acknowledgment from Aurelius Ieremias, son of Enoch, to Aurelius Georgius. Ieremias acknowledges receipt of the price of four artabas of vegetable seed, which he will deliver to Georgius’s door in the month of Epeiph. Dated 1 March 570. The endorsement is on the back.
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. V 1742, TM 38846): Beginning of a one-year lease, presumably of land, dated in 616-617.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780339 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1714(A-B) : Receipt for price of vegetable seed (P.Lond. V 1774, TM 19763), and Fragment of a Lease (SB XXVIII 17234, TM 38846) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2167]/040-003780339
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown sheet, broken off at the bottom and imperfect along the left edge; with writing on both sides; on the front, there are 15 lines written along the fibres, with traces of another line at the bottom; on the back, there is one line written along the fibres.
Lower papyrus (B): Medium-brown fragment, broken off at the bottom and on the sides; with writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 7 lines written along the fibres, with traces of another line at the bottom.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100150429694.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0570
- End Date:
- 0616
- Date Range:
- 570-616
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 157 x 195 mm; B: 83 x 111 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 230 mm.
Script: A: Proficient upright cursive hand, somewhat compressed; B: Proficient, upright cursive hand of the minuscule type.
- 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 1774
SB XXVIII 17234 - 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.
A
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 233-34, no. 1774.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 147.
B
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), p. 274, no. 1875 descr.
Nikolaos Gonis, ‘Two Hermopolite Leases of the Reign of Heraclius’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003), 203-06 (pp. 205-206, no. 2, with plate).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten XXVIII (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 2013), p. 306, no. 17234.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)