Detail View: Papyri Collection: Sale of Property
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Reference number:
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Demotic P 11
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Side:
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recto
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Image Number:
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JRL030592tr
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Image Title:
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Sale of Property
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Trismegistos Number:
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Subject:
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Legal documents
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Description:
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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.
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Creation site:
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Egypt: Dios Polis (mod. Thebes east)
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Date created:
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c303 BCE
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Time period covered:
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750 - 1 BCE
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Memnoneia - Djeme (mod. Thebes west)
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Dios Polis (mod. Thebes east)
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Place covered:
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Egypt: T-iouit-mehetet [Dios Polis]
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Chrysopolis
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Apis (mod. Luxor)
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Place covered:
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Egypt: Basilike Ryme [Pathyris]
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People covered:
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Teihor
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Language:
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Demotic
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Language code:
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egy
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Item height:
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385 mm
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Item width:
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2550 mm
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Support material:
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Papyrus
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Style Period:
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Ptolemaic
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Memnoneia - Djeme (mod. Thebes west)
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Bibliographic Reference:
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Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
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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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Scrolls
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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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dem011r
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Image technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, July 2004
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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