Detail View: Papyri Collection: Grant to Essemteu
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Reference number:
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Demotic P 2
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Side:
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recto
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Image Number:
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JRL030590tr
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Image Title:
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Grant to Essemteu
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Trismegistos Number:
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Subject:
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Legal documents
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Citation reference:
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P. Ryl. Dem. 2
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Description:
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Grant by the sacerdotal staff of the temple of Teuzoi of a 'place' in the temple to Essemteu and his two brothers. The text is the grant followed by a signature and eleven copies under the names of different witnesses. Papyrus of the Reign of Psammetichus I.
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Creation site:
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Egypt: Ankyropolis (mod. El-Hiba)
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Date created:
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Apr 1 - 30 644 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
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People covered:
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Essemteu
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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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270 mm
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Item width:
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1750 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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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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dem002r
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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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