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Papyrus 2668
- Record Id:
- 040-003708264
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108939437.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468120.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2668
- Title:
-
Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1951, TM 1514)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragmentary letter to Zenon from Menes, an employee of Apollonius, minister of finances (dioiketes), in Alexandria, reporting on the capture of runaway slaves and on meat received from various individuals. PSI V 505 is another fragment of the letter and preserves the docket and the address on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003708264 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2668 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1951, TM 1514) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1904]/040-003708264
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, the left-hand half of which is a papyrus now in Florence, published as PSI V 505; slightly damaged along the folds; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 7 lines running across the fibres, with lines 1-6 lacking the beginnings, which are preserved on the fragment in Florence; upper, right and lower margins are extant. A sheet-join runs horizontally at c. 40 mm from the upper edge. On the back, there are faded traces of two lines running along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468120.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- 20 July 257 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 124 x 123 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 170 x 180 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, rather untidy hand.
- 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 1951
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 370.
Papiri greci e latini 5 (Firenze: Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto, 1917), p. 89, no. 505.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 38-40, no. 1951.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 58, and passim.
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula, 1983), p. 42.
Reinhold Scholl, Sklaverei in den Zenonpapyri. Eine Untersuchung zu den Sklaventermini, zum Sklavenerwerb und zur Sklavenflucht (Trierer Hist.Forsch. 4) (Trier : Verlag Trierer Historische Forschungen, 1983), pp. 147-152, no. 18.
Reinhold Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1990), pp. 109-110, pp. 248-249, no. 64.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 195.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 149.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten X (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1998), p. 110.
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)