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Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

P.Penn. Museum inv.E02769 Receipt for Rent

Title

Receipt for Rent

Authors

Call number

P.Penn. Museum inv.E02769
(Philadelphia, United States, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collection)

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Language

English; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

204 CE
Place
Harit (Fayum)

Summary

Side 1: Receipt issued to a cultivator by the nomarch acknowledging payment of the year's rent for a plot of land which had belonged to the Queen of Ptolemy Neos Dionysus, and was now apparently part of the common property of the city of Arsinoe. (Grenfell, Hunt, and Hogarth) Side 2: receipt for rent.

Notes

Extent

10.2 x 22.4 cm

Support

Papyrus

Layout

  • Text is with the fibers on both sides. Text on Side 1 mentions the village of Theadelphia and alludes to the city of Arsinoe.
  • Side 1: 9 lines. Top, left, and bottom margins intact. Right margin is visible.
  • Side 2: 1 line, written along the fibers, perpendicular to the text on the other side.
  • Provenance

    Subjects topical

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    fol. 1v
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