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Papyrus 2096
- Record Id:
- 040-003666275
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100103285613.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467196.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2096
- Title:
- Request of a Trainee Lyre-Player to his Guardians (P.Lond. VII 2017, SB III 6997, TM 1579)
- Scope & Content:
- Heracleotes writes to Zenon and Nestus, his appointed guardians, urging them to recover the lyre he inherited from his teacher Demeas, which had been pledged for a loan of 105 drachmas, or to give him one of equal value, so that he could keep practising to take part in competitions without falling behind. He also claims a higher monthly allowance for his training, both in money and kind, for meat, oil, fish and wine. Should they not be willing to do so, he demands the equivalent money for a period of two years so that he may look after himself.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003666275 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2096 : Request of a Trainee Lyre-Player to his Guardians (P.Lond. VII 2017, SB III 6997, TM 1579) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1675]/040-003666275
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of a papyrus sheet of varying size, acquired in different years; medium-brown in colour; lacking a strip on the right-hand side and with some surface damage in places; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears 29 lines running across the fibres, with another line at the bottom in lacuna; margins are extant. A sheet-join runs horizontally in the middle of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467196.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0242
- End Date:
- -0241
- Date Range:
- 242-241 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 400 x 351 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 445 x 390 mm.
Script: Regular and neat upright uncial hand; occasion blank space between words; with some erasures.
- Custodial History:
-
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. The right-hand fragment was presented in 1926.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2017
SB III 6997 - 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.
H. I. Bell, ‘A Musical Competition in the Third Century B.C.’, Raccolta di scritti in onore di Giacomo Lumbroso, 1844-1925 (Milano: Aegyptus 1925), pp. 13-22.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), no. 6997.
U. Wilcken, ‘IV. Raccolta Lumbroso S. 13ff’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 8 (1927), pp. 72-74.
B. Adams, Paramoné und verwandte Texte: Studien zum Dienstvertrag im Rechte der Papyri (Berlin: De Gruyter 1964), pp. 167, 181.
M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp. 67-68, no. 60.
T. Reekmans, in Antidorum W. Peremans (Studia Hellenistica 16) (1968), pp. 219-227.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 169-172, no. 2017.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 131.
W. Clarysse, K. Vandorpe, Zénon, un homme d’affaires grec à l’ombre des pyramides (Ancorae 14) (Leuven: ULP 1995), pp. 60-61.
T. Reekmans, ‘Behaviour of Consumers in the Zenon Papyri’, Ancient Society 25 (1994), pp. 119-140 (pp. 123-124 n. 21).
J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), p. 96.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 110.
R. Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind. Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press 2001), p. 48.
M. Depauw, ‘The Royal Format of Early Ptolemaic Demotic Papyri’, in K. Ryholt (ed.), Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum press 2002), pp. 85-100 (p. 95).
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. 162.
J. V. Muir, Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon-New York, NY: Routledge 2008), pp. 79-80.
L. Capron, ‘Devenir citharôde professionnel: statut et conditions de travail de l'élève musicien d'après le cas d'Hérakléotès’, in S. Emerit (ed.), Le statut du musicien dans la Méditerranée ancienne: Égypte, Mésopotamie, Grèce, Rome: actes de la table ronde internationale tenue a Lyon, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (université Lumière Lyon 2) les 4 et 5 juillet 2008, Lyon (Paris: Institut français d'archéologie orientale 2013), pp. 159-169.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)