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Papyrus 2173
- Record Id:
- 040-003536767
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101223955.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467328.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2173
- Title:
- Private Letter (APF 63 (2017), pp. 156-166, no. 4, TM 704795)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter from Ainas to Phaselos, concerning legal and business matters. The barley they brought to an oasis seems to have been wrongly appropriated, and Ainas struggled for three years to recover it. He asks Phaselos to file a petition for redress to the dux. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003536767 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2173 : Private Letter (APF 63 (2017), pp. 156-166, no. 4, TM 704795) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1524]/040-003536767
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete and well preserved, with few holes and minor surface damage in places; written on both sides along the fibres. On the front, there are 27 lines, with some blank space between lines 26 and 27. Margins are minimal; a sheet-join runs from top to bottom at c. 15 mm from the right edge. On the back there is one line and at the top a thick line of ink serving as a seal. The sheet was folded in half from top to bottom, then inwards from both sides. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467328.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 248 x 105 mm, housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 160 mm.
Script: Rounded and competent hand, slightly slanting to the right; more cursive in the last lines.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 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. 156-166, no. 4, with plates).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)