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Papyrus 2090
- Record Id:
- 040-003653462
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102894441.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467156.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2090
- Title:
- Farmers’ Petition (P.Lond. VII 1954, TM 1517)
- Scope & Content:
- Petition to Apollonius, chief minister of the finances (dioiketes) from some farmers who had been allocated a plot of land to cultivate. Damis took away part of the land, and compelled three of the farmers to sign a deed of renunciation. Additionally, he prevented them from sowing the land. The farmers are therefore asking to be received by Apollonius. Almost duplicate version of Papyrus 2094, addressed to Zoilus, chief financial official (oikonomos) of the Arsinoite nome.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003653462 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2090 : Farmers’ Petition (P.Lond. VII 1954, TM 1517) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1619]/040-003653462
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus slip, cut from a roll of exceptional height; complete but with severe surface damage in the central portion; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 11 lines, the last of which is written on the right-hand side. Margins are extant. Horizontal folds are still visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467156.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- October-November 257 BC (?)
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 140 x 425 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring x mm.
Script: Professional upright uncial hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome?
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:
- P.Lond. VII 1954
- 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. I. Rostovtzeff, A Large Estate in Egypt in the Third Century B.C. - A Large Estate in Egypt in the Third Century B.C.: A Study in Economic History (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1922), pp. 73-74.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 43-45, no. 1954.
T. S. Pattie, E. G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board 1974), p. 31, no. 43.
M. M. Austin, The Hellenistic world from Alexander to the Roman conquest: a selection of ancient sources in translation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1981), no. 240.
P. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill 1981), p. 173, and passim.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), pp. 109-110.
T. Reekmans, ‘Archives de Zénon: situation et comportement des enterpreneurs indigènes’, in E. Van’t Dack, P. Van Dessel, W. Van Gucht (eds.), Egypt and the Hellenistic World. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Leuven 24-26 May 1982 (Lovanii: Orientaliste 1983), pp. 325-350 (p. 349).
P. Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1994), no. 4 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 149.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 195.
M. Depauw, ‘The Royal Format of Early Ptolemaic Demotic Papyri’, in K. Ryholt (ed.), Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2002), pp. 85-100 (p. 95).
J. G. Manning, Land and power in Ptolemaic Egypt: the structure of land tenure (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2003), p. 108, and passim.
A. Monson, From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012), p. 87, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)