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Papyrus 2659
- Record Id:
- 040-003707899
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108803034.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468056.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2659
- Title:
- Letter from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2007, TM 1569)
- Scope & Content:
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Letter of Horus to Pemenes, informing him that the swineherd Herienouphis refuses to pasture the swine until he receives his wages for the past four months. Pemenes is asked to notify Zenon so that he may send the salary. The swine are dying of hunger, and Zenon should send another man to pasture sixty pigs. The address is on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003707899 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2659 : Letter from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2007, TM 1569) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1899]/040-003707899
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete and overall well preserved, with slight damage along the folds; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 30 lines written along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. On the back, there is a word written across the fibres the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468056.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0248
- End Date:
- -0248
- Date Range:
- 14 December 248 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 267 x 109 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 325 x 155 mm.
Script: Medium-sized uncial hand, upright and thin, slightly uneven. Last line of the recto is smaller and more cursive
- Custodial History:
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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 2007
- 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. 155-7, no. 2007.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 16, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)