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Papyrus 2378(A)
- Record Id:
- 040-003708705
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109240033.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467777.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2378(A)
- Title:
- Account from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2004, TM 1566)
- Scope & Content:
- Account of daily rations of wheat for the month of Tybi, issued to various employees in the Philadelpheia estate of Apollonius.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003708705 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2378(A) : Account from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2004, TM 1566) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1936]/040-003708705
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a long and narrow medium-brown papyrus, with detached scrap, broken off to the right and damaged at the top; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, portions of 6 columns written along the fibres survive. The first and second columns are complete. The back bears the beginnings of two lines written along the fibres at the bottom. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467777.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0248
- End Date:
- -0248
- Date Range:
- February-March 248 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 112 x 524 mm; fragment: 24 x 111 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 740 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, somewhat rough hand, with a tendency to become more cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: 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 2004
- 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. 364.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 150-152, no. 2004.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), passim.
George F. Franko, ‘Sitometria in the Zenon Archive: Identifying Zenon's Personal Documents’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 25 (1988), 13-98 (17, and passim).
Reinhold Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte I (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1990), no. 102.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 149.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)