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Papyrus 2653
- Record Id:
- 040-002105649
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002ab
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125097.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2653
- Title:
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Letter from Apollonius to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1973, SB III 7263, TM 1536)
- Scope & Content:
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A letter from Apollonius to Zenon, instructing him to make arrangements for the visit of ambassadors of the Bosporan king Pairisades II and the delegates of the city of Argos, who are on a sight-seeing tour of the Arsinoite nome. Zenon is to dispatch conveyances and baggage-animals to Ptolemais for the visitors. With address, summary of the content and date of receipt on the verso, which includes the hour of receipt (i.e. 10th hour = 4pm).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105649 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2653 : Letter from Apollonius to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1973, SB III 7263, TM 1536) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1234]/040-002105649
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A fully preserved sheet of a light-brown papyrus, bearing writing on both sides, the recto being written across the fibres and the verso along the fibres. All margins are extant. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125097.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0254
- End Date:
- -0254
- Date Range:
- 21 September 254 BCE
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 334 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 290 x 380 mm.
Script: Large and practised hand of the chancery type, although not of the highest standard. Different hand on verso for date of receipt.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memphis? Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2652-2721 from Dr. A. N. Kondilios in July 1925. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Columbia University.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1973
SB III 7263 - Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), pp. 369-370.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), p. 266, no. 7263.
H. I. Bell, ‘Greek Sightseers in the Fayum in the Third Century B.C.’, Symbolae Osloenses 5 (1927), pp. 33-37.
M. Rostovtzeff, ‘Greek Sightseers in Egypt’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1928), pp. 13-15.
W. L. Westermann, ‘On Inland Transportation and Communication in Antiquity’, Political Science Quarterly 43 (1928), pp. 364-387 (pp. 377-379).
U. Wilcken ‘Referate III. Urkunden-Referat’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 9 (1930), pp. 63-104 (pp. 66-67).
M. K. Trofimova, ‘Is istorii ellenisticheskoi ekonomiki (k voprosu o torgovoi konkurentsii Bospora I Egypta v. III voki do n. e.)’, Vestnik drevnej istorii 76 (1961), pp. 46-68.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 62-66, no. 1973.
M. Bergmans, ‘Théores argiens au Fayoum (P. Lond. VII 1973)’, Chronique d'Égypte 54 (1979), pp. 127-130.
T. S. Pattie, E. G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus. An Exhibition Held in The British Museum 30 July - 27 October 1974 (London: British Museum Publications Limited for The British Library Board 1974), pp. 31-32, no. 45.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), pp. 92-93.
R. W. Daniel, ‘P.Lond. VII 1973 (= SB III 7263)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 61 (1985), pp. 125-126.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 195.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 149.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 110.
T. Derda, ‘Waterway Fayum-Alexandria: A Note on P.Lille I 1 (=P.Zen.Pest., Appendix A)’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 36 (2006), pp. 9-20 (pp. 13-14).
K. Vandorpe, ‘Archives and Dossiers’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 216-255 (p. 243).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)