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Papyrus 1742
- Record Id:
- 040-003780340
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114729168.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470464.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1742
- Title:
- Leases of Land (P.Lond. V 1696, TM 36921; SB XXVI 16529, TM 19715)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. V 1696, TM 36921): Portion of a lease of land, the lessee being a certain Isaac. With his subscription and the notary’s at the bottom. The endorsement on the back is illegible.
Verso (SB XXVI 16529, TM 19715): Glued onto the back is a papyrus strip from another document, further fragments of which are Papyrus 0503 and a fragment in Berlin, inventoried as 25080. It preserves part of a contract for a three-year lease of land between Aurelius Apollos, son of Dioscorus, the lessor, and three tenants; the subscriptions of the lessees and of the notary are at the bottom; the agreement is dated in 26 October 526.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780340 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1742 : Leases of Land (P.Lond. V 1696, TM 36921; SB XXVI 16529, TM 19715) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2168]/040-003780340
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Dark-brown papyrus sheet, incomplete, with writing on both sides. On the front, there is a column of 18 lines written along the fibres; the lower and right margins are extant, the left margin partly survives at the bottom. A strip of another dark brown papyrus was glued onto the back of the sheet and preserves the beginnings of 29 lines written along the fibres. Other fragments of this different document are Papyrus 0503 and a papyrus in Berlin, inventoried as 25080. Perpendicularly to this text, there are traces of one line belonging to the document on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470464.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0526
- Date Range:
- 500-526
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 290 x 136 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 345 x 190 mm.
Script: Recto: Tall, laterally compressed, sloping cursive hand. Different hand for the subscription in lines 16-17. Verso: Confident upright cursive hand; different hand for the subscription in lines 24-26.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Aphrodito, Antaiopolite nome, 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 1696
SB XXVI 16529 - 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.
Recto
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), pp. 100-02, no. 1696 recto.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter, 1922), p. 304.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964), p. 46.
Johannes M. Diethart, Klaas A. Worp, Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten (Byz. Not.) (Wien: Hollinek, 1986), p. 25, Aphr. 1.1.11, with plate 2.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 191.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 120.
Verso
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, V (London: British Museum, 1917), p. 100, no. 1696.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, IV (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964), p. 46.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 191.
Jean-Luc Fournet, ‘Du nouveau dans les archives de Dioscore d'Aphrodité’, in Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998, 1-3 vols., ed. by Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi, Giovanna Menci, (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, 2001), Vol. 1, pp. 475-485 (pp. 478-480).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 120.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXVI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006), no. 16529.
Jean-Luc Fournet, 'Λιψ', Chronique d'Égypte 95 (2020), 132-44.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)