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Papyrus 2084
- Record Id:
- 040-003695864
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100107895732.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2084
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2011, SB V 7984, TM 1573)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from his agent Pataikion, relaying the news heard from Pyrrhus that the goatherds were planning to flee, and that one of them had already gone. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003695864 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2084 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2011, SB V 7984, TM 1573) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1869]/040-003695864
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete and well preserved. On the front, there are 12 lines running along the fibres, complete; all margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening for the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0243
- End Date:
- -0243
- Date Range:
- 13 February 243 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 152 x 89 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 145 mm.
Script: Neat, thin, upright hand of medium size, similar to a literary hand; letters are mostly detached and are not confined to the writing line; the last line with the final greetings and date is more cursive. Lines are slightly uneven towards the end.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Pharbaithos, meris of Herakleides, 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 2011
SB V 7984 - 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.
E. M. Thompson, Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, etc.: second series. New Palaeographical Society Series II. Part V (London: Oxford University Press 1913-1932), plate 96(b).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band V (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1934-1955), no. 7984.
Cl. Préaux, ‘Papyrus littéraires et documents’, Chronique d'Égypte 11 (1936), pp. 558-559.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 4, pl. 4a.
H. Hunger, Geschichte der Textüberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur I (Zürich, Atlantis Verlag 1961), p. 76, pl. 8.
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 162-163, no. 2011.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 116.
O. Mazal, Griechisch-römische Antike (Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz 1999), p. 228, pl. 13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Pataikion, 3rd century BC
Zenon, estate manager of Apollonius, 263-228 BC - Places:
- Pharbaithos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza), Egypt - Related Material:
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The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Zenon, son of Agreophon (TM Arch ID 256).