1. Papyrus 2096
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2096
- Title:
- Request of a Trainee Lyre-Player to his Guardians (P.Lond. VII 2017, SB III 6997, TM 1579)
- Scope & Content:
- Heracleotes writes to Zenon and Nestus, his appointed guardians, urging them to recover the lyre he inherited from his teacher Demeas, which had been pledged for a loan of 105 drachmas, or to give him one of equal value, so that he could keep practising to take part in competitions without fallin...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 242-241 BC
- Extent:
- Two fragments of a papyrus sheet of varying size, acquired in different years; medium-brown in colour; lacking a strip on the right-hand side and with some surface damage in places; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears 29 lines running across the fibres, with another line at the bottom in lacuna; margins are extant. A sheet-join runs horizontally in the middle of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
