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Papyrus 2095
- Record Id:
- 040-003695899
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100107909375.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467186.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2095
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2006, TM 1568)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from his agent Iason on various matters. Iason reports that another agent is not giving food to the animals and is not paying the labourers. Two of the shepherds complained with Iason, but he had no supplies, as he did not receive the rents of the bath and of the draught-animals. The author also reports on some kilims and clothing that had been pledged, which the pawnbroker was intending to sell in order to get the interest he had not received. Iason asks Zenon to write to him. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003695899 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2095 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2006, TM 1568) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1871]/040-003695899
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Papyrus sheet, light-brown, damaged along the left edge and in the middle; otherwise well preserved; written on both sides. On the front, there are 28 lines running along the fibres; all margins survive, the left being damaged. On the back, there is 1 line written along the fibres at the bottom left. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with a small opening for the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467186.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0248
- End Date:
- -0248
- Date Range:
- 24 June 248 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 332 x 178 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 375 x 230 mm.
Script: Thin, medium-sized hand, with detached letters; same hand as Papyrus 2097; lines incline upwards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Onniton Koite?, 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 2006
- 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. 153-155, no. 2006.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 143.
G. F. Franko, ‘Sitometria in the Zenon Archive: Identifying Zenon's Personal Documents’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 25 (1988), pp. 13-98 (passim).
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.
W. Clarysse, K. Geens, ‘Textiles and architecture in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt’, in A. de Moor et al. (eds.), Clothing the house. Furnishing textiles of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt and neighbouring countries (Tielt: Lannoo 2009), pp. 38 - 47 (pp. 42-43).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)