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Papyrus 2346
- Record Id:
- 040-003696216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108247920.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467725.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2346
- Title:
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Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2013, TM 1575)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter to Zenon from Demetrius, advising him that Demeas was not appointed as banker and that consequently they are liaising with Pisistratus for their transactions. Demetrius shall send details of some deposits and sales as soon as he has them. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003696216 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2346 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2013, TM 1575) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1879]/040-003696216
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, medium-brown, complete at the top and bottom, damaged on the left and right; bearing writing on both sides. On the front there are 9 lines running across the fibres. Upper, lower and part of the right margin are extant. On the back there is one word written along the fibres at the bottom right, and traces of ink at the top. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467725.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0244
- End Date:
- -0244
- Date Range:
- 28 October 244 BC
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 111 x 171 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 170 x 225 mm.
Script: Large, rapid hand, ligatured in places.
- 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 2305-2434 from Dr A. N. Kondilios in July 1921.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2013
- 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.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 164-165, no. 2013.
Raymond Bogaert, ‘Liste géographique des banques et des banquiers de l’Égypte ptolémaïque’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998), 165-202 (169).
Sitta 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. 259.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)