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Papyrus 2979
- Record Id:
- 040-003713663
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110107918.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468577.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2979
- Title:
- Letter to an Agent (P.Hib. II 207, TM 5191)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter from a landowner to his agent, with instructions on some financial and agricultural transactions, including payment and collection of loans and the sale of olyra (a type of grain) and wheat; the sender also asks the recipient to buy some soft wool to keep the slave girls busy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003713663 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2979 : Letter to an Agent (P.Hib. II 207, TM 5191) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1968]/040-003713663
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment with detached scraps from a medium-brown papyrus sheet, reused as mummy cartonnage; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 19 lines written along the fibres, some of which are damaged at the beginning; of the last line, only a few traces survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468577.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0260
- End Date:
- -0245
- Date Range:
- 260-245 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 195 x 151 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 260 x 210 mm.
Script: Tall and regular capital.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt. .
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy A 16). Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.
- Former External References:
- C.Ptol.Sklav. II 211
P.Hib. II 207 - Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 122-124, no. 207.
Reinhold Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte II (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1990), no. 211.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), p. 110.
Sitta von Reden, Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 161.
Lorenzo Fati, ‘Tholthis, sede dell'ufficio di Leodamas’, in Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007, ed. by Traianos Gagos, Adam Hyatt (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 217-226 (passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)