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Papyrus 2661
- Record Id:
- 040-003708261
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108938980.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468074.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2661
- Title:
- Letter to Apollonius from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1948, TM 1511)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter to Apollonius, minister of finances (dioiketes), from Glaucias, who confirms that he has passed on Apollonius’ instructions to Nicanor and Antiochus, and reports on the inspection of Apollonius’ estate in Palestine, which appears to be prospering under Melas’s management. Glaucias also had a taste of the wine. The back bears the address and the docket including summary and date of receipt.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003708261 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2661 : Letter to Apollonius from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1948, TM 1511) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1903]/040-003708261
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Light-brown papyrus sheet, complete and well preserved, slightly damaged along the folds, bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 10 lines running across the fibres, the last line being indented; all margins are extant. The text on the back was written along the fibres in the lower left-hand corner, upside down in relation to the text on the front. It consists of one column of 4 lines and, next to it, another word. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468074.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- 10 May 257 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 173 x 324 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 385 mm.
Script: Fine, large chancery hand, thin and upright. Smaller cursive hand for the docket on the back.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Palestina (?).
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 1948
- 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. 36-37, no. 1948.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981).
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula, 1983), p. 47.
Willy Clarysse, and Katelijn Vandorpe, Zenon, un homme d'affaires grec à l'ombre des pyramides (Leuven: Leuven University Press 1995), pp. 86-87, no. 11.
Xavier Durand, Des Grecs en Palestine au IIIe siècle avant Jésus-Christ: le dossier syrien des archives de Zénon de Caunos, 261-252 (Paris: Gabalda, 1997), pp. 204-205, no. 36.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), p. 110.
Régis Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne à travers les papyrus: vie quotidienne (Paris: Pygmalion, 2003), pp. 95-96, no. 39.
John S. Kloppenborg, The tenants in the vineyard: ideology, economics, and agrarian conflict in Jewish Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006), pp. 537-542.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 259.
Willy Clarysse, New Editions, Addenda and Corrigenda to the Texts of the Zenon Archive, p. 3: http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/add_corr_zenon.pdf.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)