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Papyrus 2684
- Record Id:
- 040-003711580
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109733627.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468244.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2684
- Title:
- Letter from the Archive of Zenon (P.Cair.Zen. I 59076, P.Lond. VII 1947, TM 731)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter of Toubias, head of the Toubiad family, to Apollonius, finance minister of Egypt, informing him about the gifts he has dispatched, a eunuch and four boy slaves, aged from 7 to 10, two of whom are uncircumsided. The descriptions are appended. P.Cair.Zen. I 59076 preserves the rest of the letter and the address and docket on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003711580 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2684 : Letter from the Archive of Zenon (P.Cair.Zen. I 59076, P.Lond. VII 1947, TM 731) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1960]/040-003711580
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Right-hand portion of a medium-brown papyrus sheet, the right hand portion of which is a papyrus now in Cairo (Egyptian Museum CG 59076); well preserved, with some holes in the upper part; written on one side, with the back blank. On the front, there are the ends of 7 lines written across the fibres, under which are two short columns of 6 and 7 lines respectively. Upper, right and lower margins are minimal. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468244.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0257
- End Date:
- -0257
- Date Range:
- 13 May 257 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 205 mm.
Script: Competent, thin, upright hand, somewhat irregular size, with some rather large letterforms; some uprights extend above and below the writing line; smaller and more cursive hand in the greetings and date and in the columns at the bottom.
- Custodial History:
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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 Michigan and Columbia University.
- Former External References:
- P.Cair.Zen. I 59076
P.Lond. VII 1947 - 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, Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte 23 (1923), p. 201, Zenon 84.
Campbell C. Edgar, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 59001-59139, Zenon Papyri, t. I (Le Caire: Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1925), pp. 98-99, no. 59076.
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten III (Berlin-Leipzig: de Gruyter 1926), no. 6790.
Victor A. Tcherikover, A. Fuks, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum I (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1957), pp. 125-126, no. 4.
Tony Reekmans, ‘Parerga Papyrologica. III’, Chronique d'Égypte 43 (1968), 159-171.
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), p. 36, no 1947.
Joachim Hengstl, Griechische Papyri aus Ägypten als Zeugnisse des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens (München: Heimeran Verlag, 1978), pp. 295-298, no. 122.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), passim.
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula, 1983), p. 44.
John L. White, Light from Ancient Letters (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1986), pp. 39-40, no. 16.
Reinhold Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1990), no. 48.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 77.
Willy Clarysse, and Katelijn Vandorpe, Zenon, un homme d'affaires grec à l'ombre des pyramides (Leuven: Leuven University Press 1995), p. 71.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 50.
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), p. 184, no. 30.
Roger S. Bagnall, Peter S. Derow, The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation (Oxford- Malden, MA: Blackwell 2004), pp. 113-114, no. 65.
Jean A. Straus, L'Égypte greco-romaine révélée par les papyrus. L'esclave: recueil de documents papyrologiques 6 (Liège: Université de Liège 2004), pp. 12-13, no. 6.
Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (TUAT) N.F. 3 (2006), VIII no. 1.1.
Willy Clarysse, New Editions, Addenda and Corrigenda to the Texts of the Zenon Archive, p. 5 (http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/add_corr_zenon.pdf).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)