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Papyrus 1994(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-003724726
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100111675465.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470667.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1994(A-B)
- Title:
- Letters to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1934, TM 2374; P.Lond. VII 2064, Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 46, TM 1877)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Lond. VII 1934, TM 2374): Letter of Apollonius (finance minister, dioiketes) to Zenon, enclosing the copy of the letter received from Dionysius, financial official (oikonomos), concerning three talents paid on account of Apollonius’s allowance; the address is on the back. Dated between 22 September and 21 October 258 BC.
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Lond. VII 2064, Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 46, TM 1877): Letter to Zenon concerned with cattle and wages, dated 7 December 252 BC. The address is on the back, the name of the sender is lost. P.Strasb. IV 228 is another fragment of this letter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003724726 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1994(A-B) : Letters to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1934, TM 2374; P.Lond. VII 2064, Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 46, TM 1877) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2056]/040-003724726
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Light-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on the sides, complete at the top and bottom; with writing on both sides; on the front, there are the central portions of 11 lines written across the fibres; upper and lower margins survive; folding lines are still visible. On the back, there is one word written along the fibres at the bottom, the other way up in relation to the text on the front.
Lower papyrus (B): Right-hand portion of a light-brown papyrus sheet, the left hand portion of which is now in Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, inventoried as P. gr. 354 and published as P.Strasb. IV 228; with writing on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are the ends of 4 lines running across the fibres, with upper, lower and right margins.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0258
- End Date:
- -0252
- Date Range:
- 258-252 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 255 x 220 mm; B: 93 x 99 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 420 x 270 mm.
Script: A: Fine chancery hand. B: Neat, medium-sized upright uncial hand.
- 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 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 1934
P.Lond. VII 2064 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum, 1969), p. 475.
A
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 14-6, no. 1934.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 58, and passim.
Claude Orrieux, Les papyrus de Zénon: l'horizon d'un Grec en Egypte au IIIe siècle avant J.C. (Paris: Macula, 1983), pp. 64-5.
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. 231-291 (no. 79).
Klaus Maresch, Bronze und Silber: papyrologische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Währung im ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten bis zum 2. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Opladen: Westdt. Verl., 1996), p. 183.
B
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), p. 213, no. 2064.
Willy Clarysse, in Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive (Pap.Lug.Bat. XX), ed. by Pieter W. Pestman (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980), no. 46.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 41, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)