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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Name Zenon, estate manager of Apollonius, 263-228 BC Digitised Content No

1. Papyrus 2084

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2084
Title:
Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2011, SB V 7984, TM 1573)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from his agent Pataikion, relaying the news heard from Pyrrhus that the goatherds were planning to flee, and that one of them had already gone. The address is on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13 February 243 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete and well preserved. On the front, there are 12 lines running along the fibres, complete; all margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening for the text on the back.

2. Papyrus 2394

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2394
Title:
Scope & Content:
Eleven fragmentary and illegible lines, perhaps elegiacs; below, upside down, Odyssey, xiv. 161-2 = xix. 306-7. 2nd cent. B.C. 5½ in. x 7 in. Poetry GREEK: Elegiac couplets (?): 2nd cent. B.C. Poetry GREEK: Homer, Odyssey, xiv. 161-162 (or xix. 306-307): 2nd cent. B.C. Homer: Odyssey, XIV. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
2nd century BC
Extent:
1 item