Detail View: Papyri Collection: Sale of Priest's Chamber

Reference number: 
Greek P 161
Side: 
recto
Image Number: 
JRL0929097dc
Image Title: 
Sale of Priest's Chamber
Trismegistos Number: 
Subject: 
Legal documents
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. Gr. 2 161
Description: 
An agreement by which Thases, daughter of Panephrimmis, sells to her son-in-law, Stotoetis, the fourth part of a priest's chamber and yard. The hand of the scribe is scholarly with occasional lapses in spelling and grammar.
Creation site: 
Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum)
Date created: 
71 CE
Time period covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered: 
Egypt: Soknopaiou Nesos (mod. Dimeh)
People covered: 
Stotoetis
People covered: 
Thases
Language: 
Greek
Language code: 
grc-EG
Item height: 
270 mm
Item width: 
226 mm
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Support material: 
Papyrus
Style Period: 
Roman Empire
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Soknopaiou Nesos (mod. Dimeh)
Notes: 
Other agreements drawn up by the same hand are Greek Papyrus 312-13.
Bibliography: 
Hunt, Arthur S., et al. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, University Press, 1911-1952
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Category: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number: 
grc0161r
Image technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured: 
2009-07-29
Date: issued: 
2009-08
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Papyri