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Artefact ID1182
TM IDTM 11320
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumSheet/roll
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

P.Grenf. I 54: Lease

The papyrus contains a complete lease of 40 arouras near Hiera Nesos (Arsinoites), from Fl. Vitalianus to Fl. Aegyptus Comitianus for the following 8th indiction, at the rent of 3 artabas of wheat and half an artab of barley for each aroura.

Written in a regular, semi-cursive hand. The subscription of Fl. Aegyptos is written in a different hand. Before the notarial signature is a cross but the ed. notes that "the signature of the scribe is, as often happens, a mere scrawl". See Diethart and Worp 1986: 52 (and pl. 17, no. 25.2.1) and also P.Col. VIII 237 and Choat 2006: 117.

On the verso is written the title of the document (misthosis).

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from378
Date to378
Dating criteria

Consular date (November 10, 378).

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context

Fayyum

Accession number

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Gr. class. d. 37 (P)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Grenfell, Bernard P. 1896. An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and other Greek Papyri chiefly Ptolemaic. Oxford, no. 54. 

Additional bibliography

•  Choat, Malcolm. 2006. Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Turnhout, 117.

• Diethart, Johannes and Worp, Klaas. 1986. Notarsunterschriften im Byzantinischen Ägypten (Byz.Not.). Vienna. 52 (25.2.1).

• Worp, Klaas. 1997. "῎Αρξαντες and πολιτευόμενοι in Papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 115, 201-220 (esp. 204).

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1182", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1182
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