1. Papyrus 2690(B) and 2694
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2690(B) and 2694
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1938, TM 2382)
- Scope & Content:
- Two fragments of a letter to Zenon by Ammonius, royal banker of Athribis, who explains that he has given 1,000 drachmas of silver and copper to Theodorus, agent of Zenon, out of the 2,000 drachmas requested by Zenon for a large purchase of donkeys because he had to pay a body of troops who had j...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 2 April 257 BC
- Extent:
- Two fragments of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, housed in a glass frame; the left-hand fragment is inventoried as Papyrus 2690B and the right-hand fragment as Papyrus 2694; another fragment is now in Michigan University, inventoried as P. 3149 and published as P.Mich.Zen. 11. The British Library fragments are complete at the top, right and bottom and preserve portions of 6 lines written across the fibres on the front, the back being blank. Upper, right and lower margins are extant. Folding lines are still visible. The fragment in Michigan bears the beginnings of the lines and the docket on the back.
