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Papyrus 2104
- Record Id:
- 040-003718498
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110368441.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467269.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2104
- Title:
- Private Letter (SB XVIII 13592, TM 27669)
- Scope & Content:
- Letter from Iustus to his father Platon, informing him that he has sent him a basket of fruit. The back bears the address with saltire pattern, and portions of money accounts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003718498 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2104 : Private Letter (SB XVIII 13592, TM 27669) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1992]/040-003718498
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus sheet, almost complete, only lacking the lower left corner; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 16 complete lines running along the fibres; margins survive, although the left is imperfect. On the back, there are portions of 2 columns written across the fibres and one line written in the intercolumn along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467269.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 159 x 90 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 140 mm.
Script: Neat, large and quick hand, with occasional ligatures. Different hand for the accounts on the back.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
George M. Parássoglou, ‘ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΕΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΡΩΜΑΙΚΗ ΑΙΓΥΠΤΟ', Hellenika 37 (1986), 260-79 (pp. 273-4, no. 5).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XVIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1993), no. 13592.
Katelijn Vandorpe, 'Seals in and on the Papyri of Greco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt', in Archives et Sceaux du monde hellénistique (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Suppl. 29), ed. by Marie-Françoise Boussac, Antonio Invernizzi (Paris: de Boccard 1997), pp. 231-91 (no. 147).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)