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Papyrus 2854
- Record Id:
- 040-002105694
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002dd
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125327.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2854
- Title:
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Receipt of Payment (P.Lond. VII 1963, TM 1526)
- Scope & Content:
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Acknowledgment in the form of a double deed, in which Panacestor, superintendent of the dispatches, has received from Posidonius, royal banker in Memphis, a salary of 300 drachmae as per Apollonius' order. The retribution is said to be 200 drachmae in the outer text.
Lines 1-12: Inner text;
Lines 13-24: Outer text;
Line 25-End: Panacestor’s autograph; Panacestor also wrote the last word of line 24.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105694 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2854 : Receipt of Payment (P.Lond. VII 1963, TM 1526) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0560]/040-002105694
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two larger fragments that do not join, with two lines lost in between, and two scraps from a dark-brown papyrus sheet; writing is along the fibres on one side only. Margins are extant. The text, in the form of a double deed, is arranged in one long column; the two versions of the deed are separated by some blank space. The papyrus was folded up from top to bottom. Mounted in one glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125327.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0256
- Date Range:
- 20 July-18 August 256 BCE
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Upper fragment: 163 x 74 mm; Lower fragment: 150 x 74 mm. Housed in one glass case measuring 382 x 130 mm.
Script: Small and untidy cursive; second hand, thicker and still untidy, from end of line 24 to the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Memphis? Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2855-2859 from M. Saadallah on 13 December 1930.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1963
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1926-1930 (London: British Museum 1959), p. 264.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 53-55, no. 1963.
P. W. Pestman, Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive: P.L.Bat. 20 (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1980), p. 11, with n. 27.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 65.
K. Maresch, Bronze und Silber: papyrologische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Währung im ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1996), p. 54.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)