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Papyrus 2128
- Record Id:
- 040-003434511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100071598663.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123880.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2128
- Title:
- Business Letter (ZPE 213 (2020), pp. 191-194; TM 832445)
- Scope & Content:
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A business letter, apparently concerning the distribution of a commodity, presumably oil, measured in metretai. Sender and addressee are unknown, due to the loss of the top portion of the papyrus and to the absence of address on the back; the text suggests it is a letter sent by a superior to a subordinate.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003434511 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2128 : Business Letter (ZPE 213 (2020), pp. 191-194; TM 832445) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0847]/040-003434511
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Lower portion of a dark-brown papyrus sheet, the top of which is missing; written across the fibres, on one side only. Bottom and side margins are extant. Within the preserved portion, the upper left margin is lost. Mounted in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123880.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0057
- End Date:
- 0057
- Date Range:
- 15 June 57
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 109 x 112 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 150 x 165 mm.
Script: Rather expert but inelegant hand, slightly sloping to the right and with several ligatures; in correspondence of emperor’s titulature (lines 9-10), the writing becomes faster and more cursive. - Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: 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.
P. J. Sijpesteijn, ‘Three Tax-Receipts from the Michigan Papyrus Collection’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 103 (1994), pp. 93–97 (pp. 96-97).
I. Nicolino, 'Una lettera del 57 d.C. riguardante una consegna incompleta', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020), pp. 191–194.
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)