Detail View: Papyri Collection: Agreement for Sale of Property
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Reference number:
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Demotic P 12
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Side:
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recto
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Image Number:
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JRL030593tr
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Image Title:
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Agreement for Sale of Property
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Trismegistos Number:
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Subject:
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Legal documents
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Creator Role:
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Scribe
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Creator:
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Peuhôr, son of Esmîn
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Citation reference:
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P. Ryl. Dem. 12
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Description:
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Teihor, the legatee of Pleehe, sells the house which forms the chief item in Demotic Papyrus 11 to another woman, Teiant (?). The text is a list of the witnesses, followed by the sale and six witness copies. Demotic Papyrus 12 is the agreement for the sale, Demotic Papyrus 13 is the cession. In a separate document, Demotic Papyrus 14, the father of Teihor likewise makes a cession of the house to the same woman.
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Creation site:
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Egypt: Memnoneia - Djeme (mod. Thebes west)
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Date created:
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Nov 1 - 30 281 BCE
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Time period covered:
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750 - 1 BCE
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Dios Polis (mod. Thebes east)
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Memnoneia - Djeme (mod. Thebes west)
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People covered:
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Teihor
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People covered:
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Teiant
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Language:
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Demotic
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Language code:
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egy
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Item height:
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390 mm
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Item width:
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2160 mm
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Support material:
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Papyrus
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Style Period:
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Ptolemaic
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Category:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Scrolls
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Image sequence number:
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dem012r
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Image technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, July 2004
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Papyri
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