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Papyrus 2666
- Record Id:
- 040-003707905
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108804279.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468109.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2666
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2041, TM 1603)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter to Zenon from his employee Menon, who reminds him that he has performed his duties profitably and blamelessly, and asks for some sweet wine to be given to him so that he may pour a libation on behalf of Zenon and Apollonius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003707905 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2666 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2041, TM 1603) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1901]/040-003707905
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 12 lines written across the fibres, complete; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. On the back, there is a dark spot of ink, but no writing. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468109.0x000001 (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:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 156 x 95 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 210 x 145 mm.
Script: Neat and fine uncial hand close to the literary type, upright, with some elongated strokes; in very black ink.
- 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 2041
- 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), p. 189, no. 2041.
Eric G. Turner, ‘Ptolemaic bookhands and Lille Stesichorus’, Scrittura e civiltà 4 (1980), 19-40 (40, with plate vi).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 195.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)