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Papyrus 2340
- Record Id:
- 040-003708343
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100108999226.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100120697150.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2340
- Title:
- Receipt for Money Payment from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1957, TM 1520)
- Scope & Content:
- Nechthembes son of Horus acknowledges that he has received a sum of money as wages for twenty labourers he appears to have been employing for the levelling of a vineyard. The receipt is in duplicate form, with the British Library fragment being the inner text, originally rolled up and sealed; the outer text is preserved in a fragment now in Michigan University (P. 3151), published as P.Mich.Zen. 27.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003708343 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2340 : Receipt for Money Payment from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1957, TM 1520) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1913]/040-003708343
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of light-to-medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete at the top, broken off at the bottom and damaged on the sides; another fragment preserving part of the lower portion of the same papyrus is in Michigan University, under the inventory P. 3151. The papyrus bears writing on one side, the back being blank. On the British Library fragment, there are 6 lines running along the fibres; line 6 lacks the beginning; the upper margin is minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100120697150.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0256
- End Date:
- -0256
- Date Range:
- 1 February 256 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 46 x 76 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 105 x 130 mm.
Script: Crude uncial hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.P
rovenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2305-2434 from Dr A. N. Kondilios in July 1921.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1957
- Publications:
-
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 364.
Campbell C. Edgar, Michigan Papyri I. Zenon Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1931), no. 27.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 47-48, no. 1957.
Pieter W Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981).
Klaus Maresch, Bronze und Silber: papyrologische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Währung im ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1996), p. 192.
John S. Kloppenborg, The tenants in the vineyard: ideology, economics, and agrarian conflict in Jewish Palestine (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006), pp. 375-376, no. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)