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Papyrus 2655
- Record Id:
- 040-003707165
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108780076.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468017.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2655
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2033, TM 1595)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter to Zenon from his brother Epharmostus, informing him that his letter about Callicon’s money had been eaten by mice and asking him to write again. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003707165 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2655 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2033, TM 1595) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1895]/040-003707165
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, with a hole in the middle; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 8 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant. On the back there is one word written against the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front. Folding lines are still visible. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468017.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0248
- Date Range:
- 257-248 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 90 x 129 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 145 x 195 mm.
Script: Small, practised cursive hand, smaller in the last line.
- 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 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 2033
- 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. 370.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 180-181, no. 2033.
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula 1983), p. 67.
Willy Clarysse, and Katelijn Vandorpe, Zenon, un homme d'affaires grec à l'ombre des pyramides (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1995), p. 97, no. 14.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 110.
Trevor V. Evans, ‘Orality, Greek Literacy, and Early Ptolemaic Papyri’, in Oral Performance and its Context, ed. by C. J. Mackie (Leiden: Brill, 2004) 195-208.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)