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1771. Papyrus 2308

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2308
Title:
Documentation concerning a Sale of Sheep (P.Lond. VII 2016, TM 1578)
Scope & Content:
Bank documentation concerning the purchase of seventy-one skin-clad sheep at the auction of Telestes, purchased by Zenon for 204 drachmas and half obol. Lines 1-2: Summary: ‘Antipater, son of Apollonius, 71 sheep’, followed by the price. Lines 3-10: Antipater addresses Phanias concerning the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
242 BC
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete but damaged at the top and bottom, and with abrasion in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 19 lines; margins are extant, with the upper and lower being wide. There are numerous off-sets due to the papyrus having been folded before the ink had dried. A sheet-join runs vertically along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1772. Papyrus 2309

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2309
Title:
Account and Letters from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2140, TM 1700; P.Lond. VII 2067, TM 1628)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. VII 2140, TM 1700): Account of daily expenses, including totals and remainders and listing various items, such as wood, lentils, castor and olive oil, water, bread, eggs, brain, trotters, quails, figs, salt, honey, wine, chickpeas, condiments, meat, as well as payments to individu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:
Long and narrow medium-brown papyrus sheet, apparently broken off at the top and complete on the other sides; with writing on both sides. On the front, there is one column of 31 lines written across the fibres; line 30 was erased. Side margins are minimal, the lower margin is ample; folding lines are still visible. The back bears one column broken off at the top and written along the fibres, of which 17 lines survive. Lower margin is ample, side margins are minimal. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1773. Papyrus 2310

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2310
Title:
Petition to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2038, TM 1600)
Scope & Content:
Petition to Zenon from Lysimachus and Paesis, two potters, who complain that they have had no work for four days, but still had to pay the wages to the workmen they had hired. The loss they incurred amounts to thirty jars. They now ask Zenon to order that their wages be paid punctually.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:
Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete but with insect-holes regularly distributed along the right edge; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 29 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant. A sheet-join is visible along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1774. Papyrus 2311

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2311
Title:
Business Letter (P.Lond. VII 2073, TM 1634)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Apollonius instructing him to take Leonidas and another man with him to perform a shoring-up work; if Leonidas is not available, he should do it himself; the address is on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Late 3rd century BC-2nd century BC
Extent:
Papyrus sheet, medium-dark brown in colour, complete but lacking the upper left-hand corner and with damage in the middle; written on both sides. The front bears 14 lines running along the fibres; all margins survive, although the left and upper margins are mutilated. On the back, there is one line running across the fibres, written the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1775. Papyrus 2312

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2312
Title:
Letter from Hierocles to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1941, C.Ptol.Sklav. II 157, TM 2384)
Scope & Content:
A letter from Hierocles to Zenon regarding the training of a boy, Pyrrhus, for the public games. On the verso there is the docket. The papyrus belongs to the Zenon archive.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Before 5 May 257 BCE
Extent:

Papyrus sheet made of fragments of varying size purchased in different years; writing is on both sides and runs across the fibres on the recto and along the fibres on the verso; left, top, and bottom margins are extant on the recto. Mounted in a glass case.

1776. Papyrus 2314

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2314
Title:
Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2046, TM 1608)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from Peteermotis, who had already applied for a position in the temple of Arsinoe at Philadelpheia, which was to be built, and now renews his request.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:
Two fragments of a papyrus sheet which do not join, medium-brown, darkened in patches; torn on the right and left; written on one side across the fibres. The front bears 5 lines, with ample lower margin (45 mm); horizontal folds are still visible. A sheet-join runs horizontally along the lower edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1777. Papyrus 2315

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2315
Title:
Business Letter from the Zenon Archive (P.Lond. VII 2054, TM 1616)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from Techestheus, who offers to supply gravel for the works around Memphis and stones for the wine-vat, to be cut from the same quarry as before. A postscript follows concerning the water Zenon intends to bring into the village. The docket is on the back. Papyrus 2384(B) has be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:
Papyrus sheet with three detached fragments (including Papyrus 2384(B), darker by patches, lacking most of the right-hand side; written on both sides. The front bears 22 lines running along the fibres, most of which lack the end; the detached fragments provide the ends for lines 1-7; upper and lower margins are ample. Vertical folds are visible. On the back, there is a word broken off to the right, written across the fibres at the bottom, the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1778. Papyrus 2316

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2316
Title:
Letter of a Farmer (P.Lond. VII 2061, CPS 200, TM 1623)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from Psentaes, a farmer employed in the royal-gift estate of Apollonius, the financial minister (dioiketes) of the country. Psentaes did not receive his wage from Zenon and asks to be received by Apollonius and requests a full payment of his salary. He has eleven sub-workers to m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete but damaged along the left-hand edge and with holes in places, affecting the writing; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 18 lines; margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1779. Papyrus 2317

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2317
Title:
Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2035, TM 1597)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from Iatrocles, presumably the agent of Apollonius, chief minister of the finances (dioiketes). The content is unclear, but concerns a delivery; Zenon is also asked to send something. The address is on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:
Left-hand portion of a light-brown papyrus sheet, complete at the top, bottom and left;

with some damage along the horizontal folds; written on both sides. The front bears the beginnings of 4 lines running across the fibres, with 10-12 letters lost on the right; left, upper and lower margins are extant and generous. On the back, there is one word written along the fibres in the lower portion of the sheet the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1780. Papyrus 2318(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2318(A-B)
Title:
Letters from the Archive of Zenon (P.Cair.Zen. II 59156, TM 804; P.Lond. VII 2079, TM 1640)
Scope & Content:
Left fragment (A) (P.Cair.Zen. II 59156, TM 804): Fragment of a letter the largest portion of which is preserved in a papyrus now in Cairo (Egyptian Museum CG 59156). Zenon is ordered by Apollonius to take as many pear shoots and young plants as possible from Apollonius's garden and palace in Me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
263-229 BC
Extent:

Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Left fragment (A): Light-brown papyrus fragment; broken off at the bottom and right; with the beginnings of 2 lines running across the fibres, upper and left margins on the front; the back bears 2 lines written along the fibres upside down in relation to the text on the front. Another portion of the same papyrus is in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, inventoried as CG 59156.

Right fragment (B): Light-brown; portions of 2 lines running across the fibres, lacking beginnings and ends; with upper margin measuring 30 mm. The back is blank.

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