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Papyrus 888
- Record Id:
- 040-003796757
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100117898469.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472145.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 888
- Title:
- Receipt for Repayment of Loan (SB XVIII 13846, TM 89), and Loan Contract (P.Lond. II 888(b) descr., TM 5898)
- Scope & Content:
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Left papyrus (A) (TM 89): Acknowledgment of the repayment of a loan, amounting to eight bronze talents, repaid by Panebchounis, son of Totoes, to Pmois, son of Phentemmoutis. Drawn up in Krokodilopolis, Pathyrite nome, by the notary (agoranomos) Paniscus, and dated 6 January 107 BC. The docket is on the back. The text belongs to the archive of Peteharsemtheus, son of Panebchounis.
Right papyrus (B) (TM 5898): Fragment of a loan contract of Nechoutes’s father Pelaias alias Areios, drawn up in Diospolis and dated to 139-138 BC; with docket on the back. Possibly from the archive of Nechoutes alias Almaphis. Unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003796757 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 888 : Receipt for Repayment of Loan (SB XVIII 13846, TM 89), and Loan Contract (P.Lond. II 888(b) descr., TM 5898) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2237]/040-003796757
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus fragments not belonging together, housed in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Medium-to-dark-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the top and bottom, broken off on the sides; with holes regularly distributed along the right edge; written on both sides. The front bears the mid portions of 22 lines running along the fibres; upper and lower margins survive; on the back, there are 3 lines, written across the fibres, upside down in relation to the text on the front.
Right papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the top, right and bottom, broken off on the left; written on both sides. The front bears the ends of 28 lines running along the fibres; the lower margin survives, the right and upper margins are minimal; on the back, there are portions of 2 lines, written across the fibres at the bottom, upside down in relation to the text on the front.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0139
- End Date:
- -0107
- Date Range:
- 139-107 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 320 x 60 mm; B: 240 x 47 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 365 x 190 mm.
Script: Proficient cursive hands of small size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: A: Krokodilopolis, Pathyrite nome, Egypt. B Diospolis Parva (Hiou), Egypt.
Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 885-1178 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 June 1901.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 888(a)
P.Lond. II 888(b)
SB XVIII 13846 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 441.
A
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xliii, no. 888(a) descr.
Gabriella Messeri Savorelli, ‘Frammenti di documenti agoranomici tolemaici della British Library’, Yale Classical Studies, 28 (1985), 73-83, (pp. 73-77, no. 1).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993), no. 13846.
B
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xliii, no. 888(b) descr.
Katelijn Vandorpe, Sofie Waebens, Reconstructing Pathyris’ Archives. A Multicultural Community in Hellenistic Egypt. Collectanea Hellenistica, 3 (Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie & l'Union Academique Internationale, 2009), p. 142.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)