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Papyrus 2690(B) and 2694
- Record Id:
- 040-003708346
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109000147.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100120697180.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2690(B) and 2694
- Title:
- Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1938, TM 2382)
- Scope & Content:
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Two fragments of a letter to Zenon by Ammonius, royal banker of Athribis, who explains that he has given 1,000 drachmas of silver and copper to Theodorus, agent of Zenon, out of the 2,000 drachmas requested by Zenon for a large purchase of donkeys because he had to pay a body of troops who had just arrived. A fragment in Michigan University (P.Mich.Zen. 11) preserves the beginnings of the lines and the docket.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003708346 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2690(B) and 2694 : Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1938, TM 2382) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1915]/040-003708346
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, housed in a glass frame; the left-hand fragment is inventoried as Papyrus 2690B and the right-hand fragment as Papyrus 2694; another fragment is now in Michigan University, inventoried as P. 3149 and published as P.Mich.Zen. 11. The British Library fragments are complete at the top, right and bottom and preserve portions of 6 lines written across the fibres on the front, the back being blank. Upper, right and lower margins are extant. Folding lines are still visible. The fragment in Michigan bears the beginnings of the lines and the docket on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100120697180.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- 2 April 257 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 143 x 250 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 310 mm.
Script: Rapid medium-sized hand of chancery type, possibly Ammonius’ hand?
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Athribis (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Both fragments were 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 1938
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 370.
Campbell C. Edgar, Michigan Papyri I. Zenon Papyri in the University of Michigan Collection (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1931), no. 11.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 19-20, no. 1938.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), passim.
Naphtali Lewis, Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 53.
Willy Clarysse, ‘A Royal Journey in the Delta in 257 B.C. and the Date of the Mendes Stele’, in Chronique d'Égypte 82 (2007) 201 = Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 128.
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)