COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Greek P 600
Side:
recto
Image Number:
JRL221100738
Image Title:
Offer to Lease Olive Crop and Grant of Lease
Citation reference:
P. Ryl. Gr. 4 600
Description:
This document, folded in antiquity twice down its height and 14 times across, is written in a strongly stylized and practised hand but couched in illiterate Greek. It is an offer made by two partners, Ammonius and Dorion, to Poseidonius, factor to a lady called Theanous, to lease the olive crop in her newly planted olive-grove. Written in three different hands.
Creation site:
Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum)
Date created:
08-10-29 BCE
Time period covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Place covered:
Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum): Karanis (mod. Kom Aushim)
People covered:
Poseidonios
People covered:
Theanous
People covered:
Ammonios
People covered:
Alexandros
People covered:
Dorion
People covered:
Archedemos
Language:
Greek
Language code:
grc
Item height:
254 mm
Item width:
130 mm
Technique used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support material:
Papyrus
Discovery site:
Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum)
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.
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:
grc0600r
Image technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date image captured:
2022-11-24
Date: issued:
2022-12
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Papyri
Offer to Lease Olive Crop and Grant of Lease
