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Papyrus 1974
- Record Id:
- 040-003677876
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100104534680.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466962.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1974
- Title:
- Order to Supply Barley (P.Lond. VII 2190, SB VI 9600, TM 2460)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of Apollonius to Apollonius, ordering him to supply twelve artabas of barley as fodder for the horses to the eight men who had been dispatched from the Hermopolite nome in transit to the camp with the king. With address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003677876 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1974 : Order to Supply Barley (P.Lond. VII 2190, SB VI 9600, TM 2460) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1717]/040-003677876
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Long and narrow papyrus slip, complete and overall well preserved, with holes regularly distributed along the left edge; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 21 lines written along the fibres; margins are extant. Horizontal folds are visible. On the back, there is one line running across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466962.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0169
- End Date:
- -0169
- Date Range:
- 17 A pril 169 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 305 x 100 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 155 mm.
Script: Rapid cursive hand, large and untidy; perhaps second hand in lines 1 and 20-21.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2190
SB VI 9600 - Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
T. C. Skeat, ‘Notes on Ptolemaic Chronology: II. 'The Twelfth Year Which Is Also the First': The Invasion of Egypt by Antiochus Epiphanes’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 47 (1961), pp. 107-112 (pp. 110-111).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band VI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1958), no. 9600.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 303-304, no. 2190.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)