Forms of documents

Browsing by forms of documents

Here follow all papyri in the Duke collection cast in notable formats (e.g. those drawn up by notaries). Select an item to see images of the papyrus as well as the catalogue record describing the item.

Demotic contracts with a list of witnesses on the back:

Sale of land in Demotic (P.Duk.inv. 631)
Contract in Demotic (P.Duk.inv. 632)
Contract in Demotic (P.Duk.inv. 635)

Double documents with originally sealed inner text:

Contract (P.Duk.inv. 708)
Lease of land in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 710)
Lease of land (P.Duk.inv. 717)

Notarial documents:

Lease in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 214)
Lease of land in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 500)
Contract of guaranty in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 502)
Cession of three slaves in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 527 R)
Contract in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 661 R)
Lease in Coptic with Greek subscriptions (P.Duk.inv. 669)

Cancelled documents:

Documentary text in Greek(?) (P.Duk.inv. 461 R)

Protocols (official marks of production attached to each role of papyrus in late antiquity):

Protocol in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 498 R)
Protocol in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 521 R)
Protocol in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 543 R)
Protocol in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1053 R)

Tachygraphy:

Tachygraphy or cryptography in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 311 V)
Draft of a documentary text in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 673 V)
Documentary text in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1046)
School exercise(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 1051 R)
School exercise(?) (P.Duk.inv. 1051 V)

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Last updated by Peter van Minnen on 12/12/95