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Papyrus 2665
- Record Id:
- 040-003689901
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100106413818.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468103.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2665
- Title:
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Letter to Zenon from an Embroiderer (P.Lond. VII 2055, CPS 230, TM 1617)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from an embroiderer named Teos, offering his service for the production of pile-less carpets (kilims), and a reduction of four drachmas on the price currently charged by Petosorapis. Should Zenon need him, he may be found in the house of the slave Artemidorus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003689901 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2665 : Letter to Zenon from an Embroiderer (P.Lond. VII 2055, CPS 230, TM 1617) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1825]/040-003689901
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, written on one side, the back displaying spots of ink. On the front, there are 14 lines running across the fibres; all margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468103.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0229
- Date Range:
- 263-229 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 187 x 130 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 180 mm.
Script: Large, overall upright hand, somewhat irregular in size, rarely ligatured.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2652-2721 from Dr. A. N. Kondilios in July 1925. Part of a joint purchased with the University of Michigan and Columbia University.
- Former External References:
- CPS 230
P.Lond. VII 2055 - 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. 370.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 204-205, no. 2055.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 123.
R. Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte II (Stuttgart: Steiner 1990), no. 230.
W. Clarysse, K. Vandorpe, Zénon, un homme d’affaires grec à l’ombre des pyramides (Ancorae 14) (Leuven: ULP 1995), p. 67.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 150.
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. 145.
W. Clarysse, K. Geens, ‘Textiles and architecture in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt’, in Clothing the house. Furnishing textiles of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt and neighbouring countries pages. Proceedings of the 5th conference of the research group 'Textiles from the Nile Valley', Antwerp, 6-7 October 2007 (Tielt: Lannoo 2009), pp. 39-47 (p. 43).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)