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Papyrus 2656
- Record Id:
- 040-003707876
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108800995.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468023.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2656
- Title:
- Petition of a Prisoner to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2045, TM 1607)
- Scope & Content:
- Pais, brother of Patis, appeals to Zenon as he has been held in prison for five months unjustly and lacks all necessities there. He asks Zenon to bail him out on his guarantee to appear, and he will provide sureties once released.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003707876 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2656 : Petition of a Prisoner to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2045, TM 1607) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1896]/040-003707876
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, darker in places complete and well preserved, with slight damage along the folds; bearing writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 7 lines written across the fibres, complete; all margins are extant, the lower being ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468023.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0229
- Date Range:
- 263-229 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 118 x 326 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 170 x 385 mm.
Script: Uneven and untidy cursive hand of small size.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), 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 2045
- Publications:
-
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. 192-3, no. 2045.
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula, 1983), p. 128.
John Bauschatz, ‘Ptolemaic prisons reconsidered’, The Classical Bulletin 83 (2007), 3–47 (18, 38, and passim).
John Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 252.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)