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Papyrus 2344
- Record Id:
- 040-003696203
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108243718.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467714.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2344
- Title:
- Contract for Land Clearance (P.Cair.Zen. II 59182, TM 828)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a contract before six witnesses in duplicate form, whereby some labourers acknowledge receipt of money from Zenon as a payment for the clearing of brushwood land. The labourers have the right to occupy and defend the land, and they should return it clean within twenty-one days. Should they fail to do so, they shall pay the money back with interest, and Zenon or his representatives shall have the right of execution upon them and upon their property. With seal (TM Seal 814) and names on the back. Two more fragments are held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003696203 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2344 : Contract for Land Clearance (P.Cair.Zen. II 59182, TM 828) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1877]/040-003696203
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragment of the same papyrus as two other fragments in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, inventoried as CG 59182; light-brown, complete at the top and bottom; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 12 lines written across the fibres, lacking beginning and ends. Upper and lower margins are extant. The original clay seal is still preserved. On the back, there are a few words written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467714.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0255
- End Date:
- -0255
- Date Range:
- 4 October 255 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus; Clay.
Dimensions: 97 x 93 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 150 mm.
Script: Rather irregular cursive hand with a slight slant to the right; with corrections and erasures.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria?, Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2305-2434 from Dr Kondilios in July 1921.
- Former External References:
- P.Cair.Zen. II 59182
- 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. 364.
Zenon Papyri, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire II (Le Caire : Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 1926), pp. 46-8, no. 59182.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976), p. 27.
Pieter W. Pestman, A Guide to the Zenon Archive (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 21) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981), p. 104 and passim.
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula, 1983), p. 84.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 37.
J. S. Kloppenborg Verbin, The tenants in the vineyard: ideology, economics, and agrarian conflict in Jewish Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006), pp. 385-8, no. 9.
S. von Reden, in Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest: A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary, ed. by J. G. Keenan, J. G. Manning, U. Yiftach-Firanko (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 405-407, no. 8.1.1.
Willy Clarysse, New Editions, Addenda and Corrigenda to the Texts of the Zenon Archive, p. 8: http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/add_corr_zenon.pdf.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)