Sale in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 469)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Sale, [5--]Author: Andreas (Son of Paule from Egypt), 6th cent.
Subject: Sales --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.	Oaths --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.	
Priests --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.	Coptic Church --Clergy --30 B.C.-640 A.D.	
Documentary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.	Contracts --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 12 cm. Note: Actual dimensions of 
item are 11.6 x 11.3 cm.	13 lines.	Written across the fibers on the recto.
Lower margin of 1.5 cm.; small left margin.<	P.Duk.inv. 469 was formerly P.Miss. 35.
Papyrus contract of sale from Egypt. Issued by Andreas,	son of Paule. Andreas swears by 
the throne of someone and the great louterion or wash basin. Signed also by a priest. 
Dated in Greek to Pharmouthi 11 (April	6) of a 4th indiction.	
In Coptic.	
Publication:Tomasz Markiewicz, "P.Duke Inv. 469: A Papyrus Illustrating Sacramentum Corporaliter 
Praestitum in Coptic Egypt," EUERGESIAS CHARIN: Studies Presented to Benedetto Bravo and 
Ewa Wipszycka. (Journal of Juristic Papyrololgy. Supplement 1, Warsaw 2000) pp. 193-200.
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