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Papyrus 2316
- Record Id:
- 040-003653464
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102895485.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467538.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2316
- Title:
- Letter of a Farmer (P.Lond. VII 2061, CPS 200, TM 1623)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from Psentaes, a farmer employed in the royal-gift estate of Apollonius, the financial minister (dioiketes) of the country. Psentaes did not receive his wage from Zenon and asks to be received by Apollonius and requests a full payment of his salary. He has eleven sub-workers to maintain. He should also be given the outstanding aruras of a plot of land. PSI IV 422 is another letter from Psentaes to Zenon on the same matter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003653464 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2316 : Letter of a Farmer (P.Lond. VII 2061, CPS 200, TM 1623) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1621]/040-003653464
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete but damaged along the left-hand edge and with holes in places, affecting the writing; written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears 18 lines; margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467538.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0229
- Date Range:
- 263-229 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 190 x 211 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 260 mm.
Script: Large, crude, thick 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 2305-2434 from Dr Kondilios in July 1921. The fragment on the upper left corner was purchased in 1926.
- Former External References:
- CPS 200
P.Lond. VII 2061 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 364.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 210-211, no. 2061.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), passim.
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. 347).
G. F. Franko, ‘Sitometria in the Zenon Archive: Identifying Zenon's Personal Documents’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 25 (1988), pp. 13-98 (p. 80).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 196.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 200 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 790, no. 150.
T. Reekmans, ‘Allocation, prêt à usage et don de biens de consummation dans les archives de Zénon’, Chronique d'Égypte 68 (1993), pp. 202-211.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 111.
J. G. Manning, Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003), p. 108, n. 55.
D. Kaltsas, ‘Kritische und exegetische Beiträge zu den Papyri des tachygraphischen Lehrbuchs’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 161 (2007), pp. 215-251 (pp. 241-242, n. 92).
S. von Reden, Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press 2007), p. 145, n. 74; p. 185, n. 16; p. 210, n. 28.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)