P.Col. IV 119 + P.Lond. VII 2125: Fragment of a Report or Petition

Abstract The papyrus fragments New York, Columbia University P. 337 and London, British Library Collection P. 2693r are dated to the Ptolemaic period and were edited as P.Col. IV119 and P.Lond. VII 2125 among the Zenon papyri. The editors of the Columbia fragment pointed to a dating “probably later than the Zenon correspondence” (p. 161), and Skeat in P.Lond. VII described the hand as “a small neat uncial”, thus questioning the early dating. Finally, both fragments are part of the same document from the second century BC, which contains the end of either a report or a petition. Its fourth line can be supplied with certainty and the text can be restored or improved in many ways.