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Papyrus 2350(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-003719570
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110488186.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467739.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2350(A-B)
- Title:
- Letter and Accounts from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2087, TM 1648; P.Lond. VII 2150, TM 1710)
- Scope & Content:
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Left fragment (A) (P.Lond. VII 2087, TM 1648): Fragment of a letter concerned with pigs and containing some instructions; the names of the correspondents are lost.
Right fragment (B) (P.Lond. VII 2150, TM 1710): Recto: Fragment of an account, apparently concerned with corn, mentioning people otherwise not found in the archive of Zenon. Verso: Traces of another account, mentioning the month of Epeiph and year 32.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003719570 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2350(A-B) : Letter and Accounts from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2087, TM 1648; P.Lond. VII 2150, TM 1710) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1998]/040-003719570
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Left fragment (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment; broken off on the sides, complete at the top and bottom; with the central portions of 10 lines running across the fibres, upper and lower margins survive. A sheet-join runs horizontally at c. 35 mm from the bottom. The back is blank.
Right fragment (B): Light-brown papyrus fragment; possibly complete at the bottom, broken off on all other sides; written on both sides; on the front, there are the central portions of 6 lines running along the fibres, with only a small trace of the first line. The lower margin survives; on the back, there remain faint traces of 6 lines written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467739.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0263
- End Date:
- -0229
- Date Range:
- 263-229 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 120 x 70 mm; B: 75 x 90 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 175 x 225 mm.
Script: A: Medium-sized uncial hand. B: Recto: Small, neat chancery hand with some cursive traits. Verso: Medium-sized cursive hand; with correction.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2305-2434 from Dr Kondilios in July 1921.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2087
P.Lond. VII 2150 - 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.
A
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), p. 224, no. 2087.
Dorothy J. Thompson, ‘Ptolemaic Pigs: An Ecological Study’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 39 (2002), 121-38 (p. 129).
Willy Clarysse, New Editions, Addenda and Corrigenda to the Texts of the Zenon Archive, p. 6 (http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/add_corr_zenon.pdf).
B
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 242-3, no. 2150.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 177, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)