Search

Project / Collection Papyri Collections Language Greek, Ancient

1831. Papyrus 2558

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2558
Title:
Account or Property List and Love Recipes (P.Lond.Lit. 171, Suppl.Mag. II 83, TM 64091, LDAB 5309)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Account or list of property, unpublished. Verso: Two recipes separated by paragraphoi, one, consisting of excrement of swallow and honey, is possibly concerned with sexual intercourse; the second is an aphrodisiac potion consisting of vegetables and wine to be drunk on an empty stomach.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Light-brown papyrus fragment, with wormholes throughout. Writing is on either side: the front contains the beginning of 9 lines written along the fibres, with the left margin extant; the text on the back, running across the fibres, is complete, although imperfect in the top left corner. The top margin measures 23 mm, the bottom one 54 mm. Housed in a glass case.

1832. Papyrus 2559

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2559
Title:
Medical Treatise (P.Lond.Lit. 170, TM 63839, LDAB 5053, MP3 2404)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a medical treatise, mentioning the eyes and advising as to the preparation of remedies easy to prepare for everyone, made of yoke mixed with a drug known as ‘antidote of Andron’. P.Mich. inv. 1469 is another fragment of the same treatise and concerns diets and the nourishment to be g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century-3rd century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, preserving portions of 24 lines of a column incomplete at the top and right side; parts of the left and lower margins survive. Another fragment from the same roll is a Michigan papyrus (P.Mich. inv. 1469), which contains portions of 24 lines. The generous format and practised hand suggest that this is a copy by a professional scribe. Writing is on one side along the fibres. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

1833. Papyrus 2560

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2560
Title:
Fragment from a Tragedy (P.Lond.Lit. 78, TM 63522, LDAB 4731, MP3 1712)
Scope & Content:
A fragment from an unknown tragedy, perhaps ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’, where a marriage and a sacrifice are mentioned.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Late 2nd century - early 3rd century
Extent:

Papyrus fragment, broken to the right and containing a column of 28 lines, the beginnings of which are preserved. The upper margin survives to 47 mm. Writing is along the fibres and the back is blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

1834. Papyrus 2561

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2561
Title:
Shorthand Manual with List of Menander's Play (TM 64311, LDAB 5532, MP3 2760)
Scope & Content:
Leaves from a papyrus codex containing a manual of Greek shorthand covering signs (tetrads) 1-810. Each tachygraphic sign corresponds to a tetrad of words, arranged within themselves in a rough alphabetic order. Some pages are blank. Papyrus 2561(1-2): Signs 1-83; Papyrus 2561(3): Signs 84-120...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century-4th century
Extent:

Fragmentary leaves from a papyrus codex, originally forming a quire of twelve double leaves and one central single leaf. Each page contains two columns. Some of the fragments are blank. Housed in twenty glass frame named Papyrus 2561(1-2), Papyrus 2561(3), Papyrus 2561(4), Papyrus 2561(5), Papyrus 2561(6), Papyrus 2561(7), Papyrus 2561(8), Papyrus 2561(9, 17), Papyrus 2561(10, 16), Papyrus 2561(11, 15), Papyrus 2561(12, 14), Papyrus 2561(13), Papyrus 2561(18), Papyrus 2561(19), Papyrus 2561(20), Papyrus 2561(21), Papyrus 2561(22), Papyrus 2561(23), Papyrus 2561(24), Papyrus 2561(25-27).

1835. Papyrus 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2563
Title:
Record of Legal Proceedings (P.Thomas 25, ChLA III 217, TM 78802)
Scope & Content:
This fragmentary document reports the proceedings of a hearing held by a praeses Arcadiae. Despite its scantiness, the preserved text suggests that a procedure per libellum was followed. The plea, probably lodged by at least two people, mentions a city councilman and probably concerned matters o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
401 or 423
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres in Latin and Greek and broken off at the top and either side; part of the lower margin is preserved. Mounted on cardboard in one glass case.

1836. Papyrus 2565

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2565
Title:
Report of a Trial before the Prefect (SB V 7696, TM 14034)
Scope & Content:
Report of a hearing held before Aurelius Appius Sabinus, prefect of Egypt, concerning a dispute over the nomination to liturgies: in order to ease the burdens of the citizens of Arsinoe, wealthy villagers had been nominated by the city council for liturgical posts. The villagers objected to this...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
249
Extent:

Fragments of varying size, some of which are dark brown, from a papyrus roll; mounted on cardboard and housed in seven frames named Papyrus 2565(1), Papyrus 2565(2), Papyrus 2565(3), Papyrus 2565(4), Papyrus 2565(5), Papyrus 2565(6) fragments and Papyrus 2565(b). Most of the fragments were joined up to form five columns of writing; frames 1-5 house the fragments forming these columns; the fragments housed in ‘Papyrus 2565(6) fragments’ and ‘Papyrus 2565(b)’ remain unplaced. There were further columns preceding the first reconstructed. Writing is on one side along the fibres.

1837. Papyrus 2574

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2574
Title:
List of Tax Revenues and Receipt (SB V 7756, 18001)
Scope & Content:
Lines 1-12: List of tax revenues to be paid per capita, mentioning the nature of the tax and the sum. The total per capita is then given. Lines 13-24: Receipt issued to Philadelphe, daughter of Theon, for the payment of the taxes. With subscription of Eulogius through his son.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
27 September 359
Extent:

A fully preserved papyrus sheet, somewhat defaced in places and with a few holes, especially in the centre, along the vertical folds. Writing is on one side along the fibres; all margins are extant, the right being minimal. Housed in a glass case.

1838. Papyrus 2575

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2575
Title:
Register of Epikrisis of the Epheboi of Antinoopolis (TM 983595)
Scope & Content:
Abstract from the register of ephebes of Antinoopolis registering Titus Flavius Antas, son of son of Titus Flavius (N) and Cornelia Antonilla, in his fourteenth year, written by a single hand in the 11th year of Antoninus Pius, i.e. 170/171 CE. Three witnesses with their Antinoopolite tribe and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
170-171
Extent:
Fragment of a papyrus sheet, broken off at left hand side, with some of the top margin remaining. The writing runs on one side, and the back is blank. On the front, there are 8 lines written in one column in red ink. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard and housed in a glass frame.

1839. Papyrus 2585

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2585
Title:
Ulpian’s Ad edictum, book 45 (?) (TM 62938, LDAB 4130, MP3 2961) and Greek text (Unpublished)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Remains of two columns from a juridical work in Latin, likely Ulpian’s Ad edictum, book 45, which deals with the issue of the testamentary rights of Roman soldiers. The imperial measure(s) described in the text, in form of rescript, can be assigned to the emperor Hadrian. Verso: Unpublis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
213-250
Extent:

One main fragment and one scrap from a papyrus roll, further fragments of which have been identified in a Berlin papyrus (inv. 11533) and in a papyrus formerly published as P.Fay. 10 (Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. class. g. 5 (P)).

On the recto, the main fragment preserves two imperfect columns written in Latin along the fibres; the upper margin survives to 35 mm; the space between the columns is between 21 and 29 mm. On the back is the lower part of one column of a Greek text written across the fibres; the left margin measures up to 84 mm. Mounted in one glass case.

1840. Papyrus 2652

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2652
Title:
Account, Archilochus and Euripides (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14-15, P.Lond.Lit. 54, 73, TM 1845-6, 91989)
Scope & Content:
Upper papyrus (A) (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14, P.Lond.Lit. 54, TM 91989, TM 1845, LDAB 333, MP3 130): On one side (verso in Milne, Roberts, et al., possibly recto in Prodi 2019), Archilochus’ tetrameters, perhaps from the end of the work (Prodi 2019); on the other side (possibly verso in Prodi 2019), p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 3rd century BC
Extent:

Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, with writing on both sides along the fibres; on one side, there are portions of 8 lines lacking the beginnings; a blank space of 40 mm follows on the right; on the other side are portions of 1 column, written perpendicularly in relation to the other text.

Lower papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; with writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, portions of two columns survive, originally of 27 lines; intercolumn extant.

Limit your search

more »
more »