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Papyrus 2315
- Record Id:
- 040-003653497
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100102965861.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467532.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2315
- Title:
- Business Letter from the Zenon Archive (P.Lond. VII 2054, TM 1616)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from Techestheus, who offers to supply gravel for the works around Memphis and stones for the wine-vat, to be cut from the same quarry as before. A postscript follows concerning the water Zenon intends to bring into the village. The docket is on the back.
Papyrus 2384(B) has been incorporated into the frame.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003653497 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2315 : Business Letter from the Zenon Archive (P.Lond. VII 2054, TM 1616) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1627]/040-003653497
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet with three detached fragments (including Papyrus 2384(B), darker by patches, lacking most of the right-hand side; written on both sides. The front bears 22 lines running along the fibres, most of which lack the end; the detached fragments provide the ends for lines 1-7; upper and lower margins are ample. Vertical folds are visible. On the back, there is a word broken off to the right, written across the fibres at the bottom, the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467532.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0229
- Date Range:
- 263-229 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Main fragment: 310 x 89 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 375 x 180 mm.
Script: Small and regular upright hand. - Custodial History:
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Origin: 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:
- P.Lond. VII 2054
- Publications:
-
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. 202-204, no. 2054.
D. Dzierzbicka, ‘Wineries and their elements in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 35 (2005), pp. 9-91 (p. 32).
D. Dzierzbicka, OINOS. Production and Import of Wine in Graeco-Roman Egypt (JJP Suppl. XXXI) (Warsaw: University of Warsaw; Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation 2018), p. 184.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)