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Papyrus 2660
- Record Id:
- 040-003652595
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102456961.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468067.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2660
- Title:
- Letter of a Beer-Shop Manager (P.Lond. VII 1976, TM 1539)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition in the form of a letter to Zenon from Haynchis, a beer-shop manager, who complains that her daughter has been deceived and abducted by Demetrius, a vine-dresser, although he already has a wife and children. Due to her old age, Haynchis needs her daughter's help for managing the shop, and asks for Zenon's help. With docket on the back including the date and sender.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Greek Papyri
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003652595 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2660 : Letter of a Beer-Shop Manager (P.Lond. VII 1976, TM 1539) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1603]/040-003652595
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete, with some surface damage in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are 23 lines written along the fibres, and all margins are extant; on the back, 2 lines run along the fibres in the left-hand half, and traces of one column written across the fibres are visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468067.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0253
- End Date:
- -0253
- Date Range:
- March-April 253 BCE
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 227 x 112 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 170 mm.
Script: Professional, upright medium-sized hand, with letters mostly separated, written with a thick pen.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Arsinoite 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.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1976
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 370.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 70-72, no. 1976.
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1994(2)), no. 5.
W. Clarysse, K. Vandorpe, Zénon, un homme d'affaires grec à l'ombre des pyramides (Louvain: Presses universitaires de Louvain 1995), pp. 98-100, no. 15.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 149.
D. Montserrat, Sex and society in Græco-Roman Egypt (London-New York: Routledge 1996), p. 10.
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), no. 209.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 110.
R. S. Bagnall, R. Cribiore, Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2006), A1.4, no. 4.
K. Vandorpe, ‘Life Portraits: People at Work’, in K. Vandorpe (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Chichester, West Sussex-Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell 2010), pp. 269-280 (p. 274).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 128.
A. Nifosì, Becoming a woman and mother in Greco-Roman Egypt: women's bodies, society and domestic space (London: Routledge 2019), p. 27 (n. 153).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)