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| Title: | A Bilingual Papyrus from Byzantine Egypt |
| Authors: | Kelly, Benjamin |
| Keywords: | Papyrus
Greek
Coptic
loan
letter
interest
grain
nomismata
artabai
bishop
Pisenthios
Egypt
Coptite nome
Kratos
Pallas |
| Issue Date: | 4-Jun-2007 |
| Publisher: | Kelly, B., “A Late-Antique Contract in the Collection of the Australian National
University Classics Museum,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
161(2007), 207-214. |
| Description: | The verso contains a loan contract in Greek, probably dating to the late-sixth or seventh century CE. The contract involves two quantities of grain and
a sum of money. There is also mention of interest. The fragmentary state
of the document obscures the relationship between the quantities of
grain and the sum of money. It is possible that both grain and money are
part of the principal, or that the grain is the principal and the money
is the interest payable on it, or that the document is actually a loan
dressed up as a "sale on delivery". The recto contains a letter in
Coptic which appears to be an apology from the elders of the village of
Kratos to a Bishop. It may be part of the archive of Pisenthios of
Coptos. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/45199 |
| Appears in Collections: | Byzantine Egypt
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