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Papyrus 2126
- Record Id:
- 040-003434509
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100071597471.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123869.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2126
- Title:
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Private Letter to a Sister (ZPE 213 (2020), pp. 195-202, TM 832446)
- Scope & Content:
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Private letter from Hierax to his sister Arsinoe on a variety of business matters. The papyrus possibly joins with Papyrus 2192 (TM 704793).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003434509 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2126 : Private Letter to a Sister (ZPE 213 (2020), pp. 195-202, TM 832446) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0846]/040-003434509
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Top portion of a papyrus, containing the first twenty-six lines of a private letter. Written on both sides along the fibres, with a faint one-line docket on the verso; folded along the vertical axis (most prominently in the mid-point of the fragment). Mounted in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123869.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 175 x 107 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 165 mm.
Script: Medium-sized epistolary hand, with occasional cursive elements. Punctuation is occasionally indicated by vacat (ll. 3, 10, 14), and word-break is at least once marked by an apostrophe (l. 11). Iota adscript is written after both eta (ll. 1, 20, 25, 27) and omega (ll. 2, 10), at least once erroneously.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2239 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
M. W. Zellmann-Rohrer, ‘Five Private Letters on Papyrus in the British Library’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 63 (2017), pp. 135-170 (pp. 143-150).
C. M. Sampson, 'A Letter from Hierax to Arsinoe: BL Papyrus 2126(+2192?)', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020), pp. 195–202.
Metadata provided by attendees of 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)