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Papyrus 2385
- Record Id:
- 040-003725650
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112423455.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470905.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2385
- Title:
- Account from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2002, TM 370)
- Scope & Content:
- Portions of a roll comprising Papyrus 2385, Papyrus 2377(E) and Papyrus 2687; further fragments are now in Cairo and have been published as P.Cair.Zen. III 59326. The roll contains an account arranged in several columns on either side, and recording payments made for various purposes to many individuals, including farmers and slaves. The payments are usually in money.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725650 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2385 : Account from the Archive of Zenon (P.Lond. VII 2002, TM 370) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2079]/040-003725650
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragments of a papyrus roll, originally with three separate inventory numbers, housed in the same glass frame. The frame now incorporates Papyrus 2687 (fragment at the bottom left), Papyrus 2377(E), which has is joint to the lower right side of Papyrus 2385, and Papyrus 2385 itself, which is the largest portion. Additional fragments are now at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, inventoried as CG 59326 and CG 59326bis. The writing runs on both sides; on the front, there survive portions of seven columns written along the fibres. The fragments in Cairo preserves two additional columns at the beginnings, and further portions of the first four columns of the British Library papyrus. On the back, there are parts of seven columns, with a short column added between columns five and seven. The text is written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front. The Cairo fragments preserve two additional columns and further portions of the first five columns of the British Library papyrus.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470905.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0249
- End Date:
- -0249
- Date Range:
- 249 BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 2385+2377(E): 103 x 371 mm; Papyrus 2687: 76 x 164 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 610 mm.
Script: Small cursive hand, even smaller in places, resembling Zenon’s.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Papyrus 2385 and Papyrus 2377(E) were purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2305-2434 from Dr A. N. Kondilios in July 1921. Papyrus 2687 was purchased at a later stage with a lot comprising Papyri 2652-2721 from Dr A. N. Kondilios in July 1925, as part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Columbia University.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. VII 2002
- 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.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 370
Theodore C. Skeat, Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Volume VII. The Zenon Archive (London: British Museum, 1974), pp. 141-50 , no. 2002.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (P.L.Bat. 21) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 16, and passim.
Reinhold Scholl, Corpus der ptolemäischen Sklaventexte (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1990), no. 225.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), p. 78.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995), pp. 52, 149.
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. 53.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002), p. 123.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), pp. 60, 128.
Willy Clarysse, New Editions, Addenda and Corrigenda to the Texts of the Zenon Archive, p. 4 (http://www.trismegistos.org/arch/add_corr_zenon.pdf).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)