Detail View: Papyri Collection: Sale and Cession

Reference number: 
Greek P 160b
Side: 
recto
Image Number: 
JRL0803318dc
Image Title: 
Sale and Cession
Alternative Image Title: 
Early Contracts from Soknopaiou Nesos
Trismegistos Number: 
Subject: 
Legal documents
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. 160, P. Dime 3 18
Description: 
The demotic cession is almost wholly lost, but a considerable portion of the sale survives. These contracts are bilingual in Greek and Demotic. They are carelessly written and spelt.
Creation site: 
Egypt: Soknopaiou Nesos (mod. Dimeh)
Date created: 
37 CE
Place covered: 
Egypt: Arsinoites (mod. Fayum)
Language: 
Demotic
Language code: 
egy
Language: 
Greek
Language code: 
grc-EG
Item height: 
Fragment b1: 263 mm
Item height: 
Fragment b2: 271
Item width: 
Fragment b1: 178 mm
Item width: 
Fragment b2: 49 mm
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Support material: 
Papyrus
Style Period: 
Roman Empire
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Soknopaiou Nesos (mod. Dimeh)
Interrelation fragments: 
Demotic Papyrus 44
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.
Category: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number: 
grc0160br
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-11-23
Date: issued: 
2008-03
Metadata language: 
eng-GB