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Papyrus 2308
- Record Id:
- 040-003665609
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103154584.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467485.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2308
- Title:
- Documentation concerning a Sale of Sheep (P.Lond. VII 2016, TM 1578)
- Scope & Content:
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Bank documentation concerning the purchase of seventy-one skin-clad sheep at the auction of Telestes, purchased by Zenon for 204 drachmas and half obol.
Lines 1-2: Summary: ‘Antipater, son of Apollonius, 71 sheep’, followed by the price.
Lines 3-10: Antipater addresses Phanias concerning the sale.
Lines 11-18: Antipater addresses the king, acknowledging the payment of the tax on the sale at the rate of one-twentyfifth.
Line 19: Date.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003665609 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2308 : Documentation concerning a Sale of Sheep (P.Lond. VII 2016, TM 1578) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1647]/040-003665609
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete but damaged at the top and bottom, and with abrasion in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are 19 lines; margins are extant, with the upper and lower being wide. There are numerous off-sets due to the papyrus having been folded before the ink had dried. A sheet-join runs vertically along the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467485.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0242
- End Date:
- -0242
- Date Range:
- 242 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 280 x 118 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 325 x 170 mm.
Script: Thin and rapid semi-cursive hand, somewhat uneven and large.
- Custodial History:
-
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.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2016
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 364.
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. 176, 180.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 167-169, no. 2016.
P. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill 1981), p. 182, and passim.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2009), p. 111.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)