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Papyrus 874
- Record Id:
- 040-003948541
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100124361993.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472127.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 874
- Title:
- Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. III 874, TM 22700)
- Scope & Content:
- Acknowledgment of a debt of three solidi by two brothers to a steward (pronoetes) of the Hermopolite episcopal church. The debt concerns a certain Herodes, possibly a tenant or labourer on the church's estate. The subscription of the notary Phoebammon is at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003948541 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 874 : Acknowledgment of Debt (P.Lond. III 874, TM 22700) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2396]/040-003948541
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus, complete at the top, right and foot; abraded in places; written on one side along the fibres; the front bears 25 lines, all lacking the beginnings except for the last 6 lines. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472127.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0554
- End Date:
- 0554
- Date Range:
- 19 December 554
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 305 x 311 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 365 x 360 mm.
Script: Large cursive hand, slightly sloping; three additional hands for the subscriptions in the last lines.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 835-878 by the executors of William Joseph Myers, F. S. A., (b. 1858, d. 1899) through R. Taylor in 1900.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 874
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), p. 440.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xlii no. 874 descr.
Amin Benaissa, 'Late Antique Papyri from Hermopolis in the British Library II', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 219 (2021) 183–201 (pp. 188-91, no. 8, with plate).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)