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Papyrus 2087
- Record Id:
- 040-003541490
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101366892.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467139.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2087
- Title:
- Letter on Runaway Slaves (P.Lond. VII 2052, TM 1614)
- Scope & Content:
- A memorandum to Zenon from Sosicrates, concerning runaway slaves belonging to a certain Paideas: Zenon is asked to hold them should he come across them, and to write to Sosicrates. Detailed descriptions of the slaves, who are Lycian, Babylonian and Median, are given.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003541490 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2087 : Letter on Runaway Slaves (P.Lond. VII 2052, TM 1614) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1541]/040-003541490
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with only a few holes in the lower portion; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 24 lines along the fibres, with some blank space left between lines 6 and 7, 10 and 11, 15 and 16, 21 and 22. Margins are extant; the left is irregular because the text is indented from line 7 to the end; the right margin is irregular too and minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467139.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0245
- End Date:
- -0245
- Date Range:
- Around 245 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 264 x 128 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 320 x 175 mm.
Script: Neat and regular upright hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philadelpheia (?), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2078-2102 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in April 1919.
- Former External References:
- CPS 78
P.Lond. VII 2052 - 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.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 198-201, no. 2052.
P. W. Pestman, A Guide to the Zenon Archive (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 21) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1981), p. 180 and passim.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), pp. 271-272, no. 78, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 195.
W. Clarysse, K. Vandorpe, Zénon, un homme d'affaires grec à l'ombre des pyramides (Leuven: Leuven University Press 1995), pp. 71-72.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 150.
P. van Minnen, ‘Prisoners of war and hostages in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 30 (2000), pp. 155–163 (p. 157).
C. A Láda, Foreign ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt (Leuven: Peeters 2002), pp. 37, 162.
D. Lewis, ‘Notes on slave names, ethnicity, and identity in Classical and Hellenistic Greece’, in M. Nowak, A. Łajtar, J. Urbanik (eds.), Tell Me Who You Are: Labelling Status in the Graeco-Roman World. U schyłku starożytności. Studia źródłoznawcze 16 (2017), pp. 183-213 (pp. 188-189).
W. Clarysse, New Editions, Addenda and Corrigenda to the Texts of the Zenon Archive, p. 5: http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/add_corr_zenon.pdf.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)