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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Name Panacestor, employee of Apollonius, Dioecetes of Egypt, 263-229 BCE Level [40] File

1. Papyrus 534

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 534
Title:
Business Letter to Cleon (P.Petrie Kleon 17, P.Petr. II 13(5), P.Petrie III 42b(2), P.Lond. III 534 descr., TM 2492)
Scope & Content:
Letter from Panacestor, manager of the estate of Apollonius, to Cleon, who had already asked him to send out a crew for building bends of a canal. Cleon did not pass by on his way to the Little Lake, and is being reproached for not supervising the irrigation works in the land of Apollonius. He i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11 October 257 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet from mummy cartonnage, lacking the lower left corner, with plaster residue and some surface damage in places. Writing runs across the fibres on the front. There are 11 lines, few of which lack the beginnings. Upper and lower margins measure c. 20 mm; the left margin survives opposite lines 1-5 and measures 15 mm. No margin was left to the right. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

2. Papyrus 2658

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2658
Title:
Order to Supply Barley and Wheat (P.Lond. VII 1952, TM 1516)
Scope & Content:
Order in duplicate form from Panacestor to Clitarchus and Andron to issue quantities of barley and wheat to various individuals as loans for labour costs and for seed. Lines 1-15: Inner text, originally rolled up and sealed. Line 16-end: Outer text. The endorsement is on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
19 November 257 BC
Extent:
Long and narrow medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with holes in the middle; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 31 lines running along the fibres, complete; blank space separates line 15 and line 16. Margins are extant, the right and left being minimal. On the back, there are 3 lines running across the fibres, the one at the top written upside down in relation to the two at the bottom. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

3. Papyrus 2854

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2854
Title:
Receipt of Payment (P.Lond. VII 1963, TM 1526)
Scope & Content:
Acknowledgment in the form of a double deed, in which Panacestor, superintendent of the dispatches, has received from Posidonius, royal banker in Memphis, a salary of 300 drachmae as per Apollonius' order. The retribution is said to be 200 drachmae in the outer text. Lines 1-12: Inner text; Li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
20 July-18 August 256 BCE
Extent:

Two larger fragments that do not join, with two lines lost in between, and two scraps from a dark-brown papyrus sheet; writing is along the fibres on one side only. Margins are extant. The text, in the form of a double deed, is arranged in one long column; the two versions of the deed are separated by some blank space. The papyrus was folded up from top to bottom. Mounted in one glass case.