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Papyrus 2323
- Record Id:
- 040-003655825
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103033865.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470758.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2323
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2042, CPS 257, TM 1604)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from Metrodorus, an employee of Apollonius’ estate in Alexandria, concerning a transaction in which Zenon and his brother appear to have been involved. Metrodorus encloses the copy of a letter addressed to Artemidorus regarding the sum of money deposited with him, to be used by Metrodorus’ brother. With docket on the back. The right-hand portion is preserved in a papyrus in Cairo.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003655825 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2323 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2042, CPS 257, TM 1604) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1635]/040-003655825
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Left-hand portion of a light-brown papyrus sheet, worm-eaten in a zigzag line along the edges; with darker patches on the right-hand side; written on both sides. The front bears the beginnings of 13 lines written across the fibres; a sheet-join runs horizontally at c. 40 mm from the bottom. The back has one line running along the fibres. Another fragment of the same papyrus is now Cairo. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame with a small opening to show the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470758.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0248
- Date Range:
- 256-248 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 260 x 105 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 150 mm.
Script: Large, fine chancery hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria (?), 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.
- Former External References:
- CPS 257
P.Lond. VII 2042 - 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. 190-191, no. 2042.
P. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill 1981), p. 69, and passim.
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. 76).
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), p. 1010, no. 257 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 150.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 110.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)