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Papyrus 2051
- Record Id:
- 040-002105420
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000128
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123640.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2051
- Title:
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Letter of Diogenes to Dionysius (P.Oxy. VII 1061, TM 20350)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Diogenes to Dionysius concerning the assessment of some unirrigated land and the payments due on it, which the recipient and his brother Apollonius, village secretary, are asked to oversee. Diogenes had already written to Dionysius on the matter without results, and consequently had to seek the help of a certain Ptolemaeus, less experienced than the recipient. The back contains the address.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105420 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2051 : Letter of Diogenes to Dionysius (P.Oxy. VII 1061, TM 20350) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0692]/040-002105420
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fully preserved papyrus sheet, with a few holes. All margins are extant, the right being minimal: the left measures 30 mm, the upper 20-25 mm and the lower 10 mm. Writing is on both sides along the fibres, the back having a two-line docket. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123640.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0022
- End Date:
- -0022
- Date Range:
- 22 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 29 x 164 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 205 mm.
Script: Regular and neat upright hand, with many ligatured sequences.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2040-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. VII 1061
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), p. 477.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 214-216, no. 1061.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc. : second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II, Part I (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), Plate 1.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 331.
B. H. Olsson, Papyrusbriefe aus der frühesten Römerzeit (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b. 1925), pp. 41-44, no. 8.
H. C. Youtie, ‘A "Lost" Parallel for εχoνoμα’, Classical Philology 32 (1937), pp. 155-158 (p. 158).
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri (Stuttgart: A. Hierseman 1967), no. 22, pl. 15.
J. L. White, Light from Ancient Letters (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1986), no. 67.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 134.
C. Spicq, Lexique théologique du Nouveau Testament (Fribourg, Suisse-Paris: Éditions universitaires, Éditions du Cerf. 1991), p. 684, and passim.
S. R. Llewelyn, ‘The Sending of a Private Letter’, in S. R. Llewelyn (ed.), New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol. 7: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published in 1982-83 (North Ryde, N.S.W.: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University 1994), pp. 26-47 (pp. 39, 41).
S. R. Llewelyn, ‘The εἰϛ (τὴν) οἰκίαν Formula and the Delivery of Letters to Third Persons or to Their Property’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 101 (1994), pp. 71-78 (pp. 73, 76).
E. J. Epp, Perspectives on New Testament Textual Criticism: Collected Essays, 1962-2004 (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2005), pp. 400-401.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 54.
G. Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 101-148 (p. 110, with pl. 5.6).
M. Leiwo, ‘Imperatives and Other Directives in the Greek Letters from Mons Claudianus’, in T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink (eds.), The Language of the Papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 97-119 (p. 109).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)