COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Greek P 166
Side:
recto
Image Number:
JRL17021094
Image Title:
Offer to lease land
Citation reference:
P. Ryl. Gr. 2 166
Description:
An offer to lease a plot of land, apparently addressed to the agent of the landowner; details of the surrounding plots of land are given.
Creation site:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
Date created:
1 December 26 CE
Time period covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat)
People covered:
Gaius Iulius Amarantos (agent?)
People covered:
Orsenouphis
People covered:
Aphrodisios
People covered:
Gaius Iulius Alexandros (landowner)
People covered:
Euandros, son of Ptolemaios (landowner)
Language:
Greek
Language code:
grc
Item height:
287 mm
Item width:
112 mm
Number of lines:
32
Technique used:
Handwriting
Support material:
Papyrus
Discovery site:
Egypt: Euhemeria (mod. Qasr el-Banat) [?]
Bibliographic Reference:
A.C. Johnson (1936), Roman Egypt: 129-30
Notes:
The Papryrus description has been supplied by William Mundy.
Bibliography:
Johnson, J De M; Martin, Victor; Hunt, Arthur S. Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume II Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, Nos. 62-456. Part 1 (1915): In: Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester, UK: Sherratt and Hughes, Publishers to the Victoria University of Manchester; 1915, pp. 10-11
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Category:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number:
grc0166r
Image technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured:
2017-02-07
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Papyri
Offer to lease land
