Detail View: Papyri Collection: Offer to Lease Olive Crop and Grant of Lease
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Reference number:
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Greek P 600
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Side:
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recto
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Image Number:
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JRL221100738
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Image Title:
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Offer to Lease Olive Crop and Grant of Lease
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Trismegistos Number:
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Citation reference:
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P. Ryl. Gr. 4 600
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Description:
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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.
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Creation site:
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Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum)
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Date created:
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08-10-29 BCE
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Time period covered:
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1 BCE - 500 CE
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum): Karanis (mod. Kom Aushim)
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People covered:
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Poseidonios
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People covered:
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Theanous
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People covered:
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Ammonios
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People covered:
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Alexandros
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People covered:
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Dorion
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People covered:
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Archedemos
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Language:
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Greek
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Language code:
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grc
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Item height:
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254 mm
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Item width:
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130 mm
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support material:
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Papyrus
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum)
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Bibliography:
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Hunt, Arthur S., et al. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, University Press, 1911-1952
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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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Fragments
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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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grc0600r
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date image captured:
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2022-11-24
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Date: issued:
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2022-12
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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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