COLLECTION NAME:
Papyri Collection
Record
Reference number:
Demotic P 11
Side:
recto
Image Number:
JRL030592tr
Image Title:
Sale of Property
Subject:
Legal documents
Description:
Agreement for sale by Pleehe of all his property to the woman Teihor (probably his wife). The text consists of the sale, followed by four copies under the names of different witnesses. It is probably really a will, constructed in the form of a ficticious sale.
Creation site:
Egypt: Dios Polis (mod. Thebes east)
Date created:
c303 BCE
Time period covered:
750 - 1 BCE
Place covered:
Egypt: Memnoneia - Djeme (mod. Thebes west)
Place covered:
Egypt: Dios Polis (mod. Thebes east)
Place covered:
Egypt: T-iouit-mehetet [Dios Polis]
Place covered:
Egypt: Chrysopolis
Place covered:
Egypt: Apis (mod. Luxor)
Place covered:
Egypt: Basilike Ryme [Pathyris]
People covered:
Teihor
Language:
Demotic
Language code:
egy
Item height:
385 mm
Item width:
2550 mm
Technique used:
Handwriting
Support material:
Papyrus
Style Period:
Ptolemaic
Discovery site:
Egypt: Memnoneia - Djeme (mod. Thebes west)
Bibliographic Reference:
Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
Category:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Scrolls
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number:
dem011r
Image technique:
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, July 2004
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Sale of Property
