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Contracts of surety

Name: Contracts of surety
Variants: Cautionnements
Place: 00b - Themistou Meris
Century: BC03
Begin: BC 229
End: BC 216
Language/script: bilingual: Demotic, often with Greek abstracts on
Material: papyrus
Texts: 69
↳ certain: 68
↳ uncertain: 1
↳ erroneous:
Type: official archive
Protagonist: Apollonios oikonomos and Petechonsis topogrammateus
Description: contracts of surety addressed to the oikonomos of the meris of Themistos and the topogrammateus; P. Lille Dem. 50-51 are glued to one another, but the other texts do not seem to have been part of a tomos synkollesimos
Studies: de Cenival, P. Lille Dem. 2, 1973, p. 136-220 gives a detailed juridical commentary, but does not study the way in which the archive was built up
Lists: Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 249 no. 5a
Work: A full reedition of the text, including the Greek abstracts, and many new fragments is being prepared by Willy Clarysse and Marie-Pierre Chauffray.
Collections: Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie
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