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Papyrus 2679
- Record Id:
- 040-003432629
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100069938616.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125112.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2679
- Title:
- Private Letter from Python to Zenon Concerning the Granting of a Loan (P.Lond. VII 1944, TM 1509)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter from Python, director of the tax office at Athribis, to Zenon, to inform him that he has paid to his agent Theodorus the requested 1000 drachmae for the purchase of donkeys. The back contains a short summary of the letter with the date of reception and, in larger letters, the name of the addressee.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003432629 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2679 : Private Letter from Python to Zenon Concerning the Granting of a Loan (P.Lond. VII 1944, TM 1509) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1235]/040-003432629
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Joining fragments of a light-brown papyrus sheet; the one containing the ends of the line was acquired later. Written on both sides with the text running across the fibres on the recto and along the fibres on the verso; well-preserved apart from a few holes, the largest of which is at the joint of the fragments and affects the first three lines. Mounted in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143125112.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- before 6 May 257 BCE
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 128 x 310 mm, mounted in a glass case measuring 180 x 355 mm.
Script: Large, elegant hand, resembling the most common chancery hands encountered in the Zenon archive (‘cancelleresca alessandrina’).
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Athribis (?), Athribite nome, 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. The fragment preserving the ends of the line was acquired in 1926.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1944
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), pp. 369-370.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 31-33, no. 1944.
R. Bogaert, 'Banques et banquiers dans l’Arsinoïte à l’époque ptolémaïque', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 68 (1987), pp. 35-75 (pp. 37-39).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden - New York – Köln: Brill 1995), p. 149.
M. T. Corradi, ‘Sulla struttura bancaria lagide’, Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 50 (2008) pp. 289-301 (pp. 298-300).
Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)