1. Papyrus 2684
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2684
- Title:
- Letter from the Archive of Zenon (P.Cair.Zen. I 59076, P.Lond. VII 1947, TM 731)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of Toubias, head of the Toubiad family, to Apollonius, finance minister of Egypt, informing him about the gifts he has dispatched, a eunuch and four boy slaves, aged from 7 to 10, two of whom are uncircumsided. The descriptions are appended. P.Cair.Zen. I 59076 preserves the rest of the le...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 13 May 257 BC
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, the right hand portion of which is a papyrus now in Cairo (Egyptian Museum CG 59076); well preserved, with some holes in the upper part; written on one side, with the back blank. On the front, there are the ends of 7 lines written across the fibres, under which are two short columns of 6 and 7 lines respectively. Upper, right and lower margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
