Contract

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33185908

Description

Title: Contract
Published / Created: Byzantine 17 October 377 [A.BEN]
Abstract: The document is a 'sale on delivery' in cheirograph form between the son(?) of a bishop and several individuals from an Oxyrhynchite hamlet. Each individual must supply a quantity of hay corresponding to the sum received.[A.BEN]
Description: Greek
Provenance: The Yale Papyrus Collection was held by the Yale University Library from 1899 to 1930, when it was moved to the Department of Classics. The collection was transferred from the Department of Classics to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library gradually between 1964 and 1967. A group of items including wax tablets and mummy tags (P.CtYBR inv.4971-4985) was transferred from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History to the Beinecke Library in 1996., Acquired by gift and purchase, 1889-2005. Acquisition information is recorded in each individual description and on the Library’s Web site, here: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/research-teaching/doing-research-beinecke/introduction-yale-papyrus-collection/guide-yale-papyrus#Acquisition, 1996c
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)