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Add MS 37533

Record Id:

032-002053904

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002053904

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000380

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 37533

Title:

School Text (TM 64097, LDAB 5315, MP³2712)

Scope & Content:

The first four sides contain a long list of 207 verbs usually followed by forms of the pronoun outos to indicated the case they govern. Paragraphoi separate the different groups, usually divided according to meaning. Diaeresis is used. On side Alpha the name of the owner or user of the notebook, Epaphrodeitos, appears. On side Eta a phonetic classification of the letters of the alphabet and some gnomic questions in the form of riddles with their respective answers. These continue on side Theta and a paragraphos separates them from some notes on conjunctions in the form of questions and answers. On the same side a classification of the onomata (nouns, adjectives, interrogative and indefinite pronouns), which at times are separated by the sign %. At the end of the section there is a colophon inscribed in a rectangle and rules for the declension of a chreia.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002053904

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002053904

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Codex made of 8 numbered tablets. The tablets are numbered on each side in the left-hand margin from alpha to pi. Only 7 of the sides are written on (Alpha-Delta and Eta, Theta, and Iota). On the cover only traces of writing appear.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0200

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Wood codex (8 numbered tablets)

Dimensions: 1: 98 x 169 x 4 mm; 2: 102 x 272 x 4 mm; 3: 97 x 270 x 3 mm; 4: 97 x 270 x 3 mm; 5: 102 x 270 x 4 mm; 6: 98 x 270 x 3 mm; 7: 104 x 267 x 4 mm; 8: 100 x 272 x 4 mm.

Script: Hand 1: 'Rapid,' writes the first 3 tablets rather hastily and fluently, more neatly at the beginning, then becoming more careless and drawing crookedparagraphoi but showing the same characteristics, the large chi’s and frequent ligatures. Hand 2: 'Rapid', in tablets 4 and 5, ligaturing the letters less.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased in 1907.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1912), p. 73.

F. Kenyon, ‘Two Greek School-Tablets’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 29 (1909), 32-39.

A. Brinkmann, ‘Aus dem antiken Schulunterricht’, Rheinisches Museum, 65 (1910), 149-55.

P. Beudel, “Qua ratione Graeci liberos educerint, papyris, ostracis, tabulis in Aegypto inventis illustrator”, Dissertation, Münster (1911).

E. Ziebarth, Aus der antiken Schule: Sammlung griechischer Texte auf Papyrus,Holztafeln, Ostraka (Bonn: E. Marcus und E. Weber, 1913, 2nd ed.; Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 65), pp. 18-29, no. 30.

P. Collart, ‘A l'école avec les petits Grecs d'Égypte’, Chronique d'Egypte, 11 (1936), 501-502.

M. Richard. Inventaire des Manuscrits Grecs du British Museum (Paris: C.N.R.S. 1952; Publications de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes 3), pp. 70-71.

J. M. Galé, Las escuelas del antiguo Egipto a través de los Papiros Griegos (Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Espanola 1961), pp. 30, 88-90.

G. Zalateo, ‘Papiri scolastici’, Aegyptus, 41 (1961), p. 202, no. 358.

R. Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Graeco-Roman Egypt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1965, 2nd ed.), no. 2712.

K. Painter, ‘A Roman Writing Tablet from London’, British Museum Quarterly, 31 (1967), p. 109, no. 23.

G. Nachtergael, Dans les classes d'Égypte d'après les papyrus scolaires grecs (Bruxelles: Ministère de l' Education Nationale et de la Culture Française 1980), nos. 16-18.

J. Debut, ‘Les documents scolaires’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 63 (1986), nos. 222, 319, 322, 360.

W. Brashear and F.A.C. Hoogendijk, ‘Corpus Tabularum Lignearum Ceratarumque Aegyptiarum’, Enchoria, 17 (1990), p. 49, no. 97.

P. Cauderlier, ‘Les tablettes grecques d'Égypte : inventaire’, in Tablettes à écrire de l'antiquité à l'époque moderne (Turnhout: Brepols 1992; Bibliogia elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia 12), pp. 11-18.

A. Wouters, ‘The Grammatical Term άπολελυμένον in the School Book Brit.Mus.Add.Ms. 37533 (= Pack2 2712)’, Chronique d'Egypte, 135-6 (1993), 168-77.

A. Wouters, ‘The Grammatical Papyri and the Techne grammatike of Dionysius Thrax’, in Dionysius Thrax and the Techne Grammatike, ed. by V. Law & I. Sluiter (Münster: Nodus Publikationen 1995), pp. 95-109.

R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta: Scholars Press 1996; American Studies in Papyrology 36), p. 272, no. 385.

R. Cribiore, ‘Literary School Exercises’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 116 (1997), 53-60.

T. Morgan, Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (New York: Cambridge University Press 1998), p. 157.

R. Hock and E. O’Neill, The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric: Classroom Exercises (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature 2002), pp. 56-59.

K. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Leuven: Trismegistos Online Publications 2012; Version 1.0), p. 30, no. 184.

Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)