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Papyrus 2097
- Record Id:
- 040-003696161
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108200930.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467208.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2097
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2008, TM 1570)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from Iason, reporting on various issues. Iason is under pressure because Zenon failed to make arrangements for the pasture-tax and the guard-tax; in addition, he informs Zenon about a sesame plantation he inspected, which is not growing well, and about a debt owed by Timocles. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003696161 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2097 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2008, TM 1570) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1874]/040-003696161
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, of lighter colour at the bottom right; complete and well preserved; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are two columns written along the fibres, complete. All margins are extant. A sheet-join runs at 120 mm from the left-hand edge. On the back, there is 1 word written along the fibres at the bottom. 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_100147467208.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0247
- End Date:
- -0247
- Date Range:
- 1 May 247 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 333 x 328 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 385 x 385 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright hand, with detached letters, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines; more cursive at the end of column two for the final greetings and the date; lines slightly uneven. Same hand as Papyrus 2095.
- 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 2078-2102 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in April 1919.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2008
- 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.
A. Tomsin, ‘Étude sur les presbuteroi des villages de la chora égyptienne’, Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres de l’Académie Royale de Belgique 5e s. 38 (1052), pp. 95–130 (p. 98).
T. C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum 1974), pp. 157-160, no. 2008.
C. Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 144.
J. Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2013), p. 65.
A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World. c. 500 BC – c. AD 300 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2017), p. 347.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), p. 128.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)