Detail View: Papyri Collection: Offer to lease land

Reference number: 
Greek P 166
Side: 
recto
Image Number: 
JRL17021094
Image Title: 
Offer to lease land
Trismegistos Number: 
12951
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