Abstract
Access to a Building on the Grounds of SB I 6000SummaryIn densely built-up urban areas access to a property may be a problem,especially if the property is not connected directly to a public networkof streets. This was a familiar problem already in ancient times and canbe observed in Demotic and Greek papyri from Ptolemaic and RomanEgypt. Despite an abundance of records attesting to the existence ofaccess to property, there are very few documents giving direct evidencefor the regulation of access, viz. its establishment or right of use. SBI 6000, dated to the 6th century AD, is one of these rare items, the onlyextant papyrus exclusively on access to premises. It contains a series ofagreements relating to this problem, some on the division of an inheritedestate between the members of a family, and others only on access tothe property. This document sheds light on an important, but relativelylittle known legal issue: access to property in non-Roman legal systems.
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