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Papyrus 2089
- Record Id:
- 040-003666262
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103283349.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467151.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2089
- Title:
- Petition (P.Lond. VII 2074, TM 1635)
- Scope & Content:
- Theodorus, in charge of engineering works, writes to Athenagoras, perhaps vice-minister of finances, asking for his salary and corn-allowance to be paid to him, so that he may continue to perform his duties with his subordinates, who may otherwise desert him. How the document ended up being among Zenon’s papers is unknown.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666262 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2089 : Petition (P.Lond. VII 2074, TM 1635) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1667]/040-003666262
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, medium-brown in colour, complete but with surface damage and holes at the top; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears 23 lines running along the fibres; set-offs are visible at the top and bottom. Margins are extant, the right being irregular and minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467151.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0249
- End Date:
- -0249
- Date Range:
- c. 249 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 333 x 144 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 375 x 210 mm.
Script: Well-formed, upright, medium-sized 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 2078-2102 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in April 1919.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2074
- 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.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 220-222, no. 2074.
J. D. Thomas, ‘Review of Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vol. VII: The Zenon Archive by T. C. Skeat’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 65 (1979), pp. 190-192.
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), pp. 139, 221.
A. Monson, From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012), p. 229.
B. Van Beek, The archive of the architektones Kleon and Theodoros (P. Petrie Kleon) (Collectanea Hellenistica VII) (Leuven: Peeters 2017), p. 8.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)