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Papyrus 2673
- Record Id:
- 040-003707051
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108585003.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468165.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2673
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1942, TM 2385)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter to Zenon from Amyntas, administrator in the Alexandrian household of Apollonius, finance minister (dioiketes), with the request to bring fine mattresses and pillows for his mother when he comes. The docket with summary and date of receipt and the address are on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003707051 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2673 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1942, TM 2385) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1887]/040-003707051
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, broken off to the right, otherwise well preserved; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 4 lines written across the fibres, lacking the ends; upper, lower and left margins are extant and generous. On the back, there is one column of 3 lines written along the fibres the other way up in relation to the text on the front, and one word after some blank space in the lower portion of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468165.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- c. May 257 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 134 x 235 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 295 mm.
Script: Large, rather square and thin hand, upright and with occasional ligatures; smaller and more cursive hand for the docket on the back. Possibly same hand as P.Cair. Zen. I 59047 (Evans 2010).
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Alexandria (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2652-2721 from Dr. A. N. Kondilios in July 1925. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Columbia University.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1942
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 370.
Skeat, Theodore C., Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 28-29, no. 1942.
Pestman, Pieter W., A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981).
Evans, Trevor V., ‘Identifying the language of the individual in the Zenon Archive’, in Evans, Trevor V., and Obbink, Dirk D. (eds), The language of the papyri (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 62, 70.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)