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Add MS 60496
- Record Id:
- 032-002169823
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002169823
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x000170
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 60496
- Title:
- Fraction Tables and Arithmetical Problems(P. Michael. Gr. 62, TM 65020, LDAB 6261, MP3 2308)
- Scope & Content:
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Wooden tablet with arithmetical problems and division tables, written along the long dimension; on one side fraction tables for the fraction ½, 2/3, and 1/3. On the other side four groups of arithmetic problems full of abbreviations (often open to doubt); each of the groups of problems is separated by a horizontal line.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002169823
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002169823
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
One wooden board painted white, written on both sides.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0599
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Pitch pine with prepared white surface of clay plaster and gypsum.
Dimensions: 500 x 155 x 100 mm.
Script: Much of the writing on the side containing the fraction tables is barely legible or totally illegible, but owing to the nature of the tables, may be restored. The problems are in three different hands; the second and third are by the same writer. All of the texts are semi-cursive; the first three problems are rarely joined by ligatures, but is more common in problem four. None of the hands are those of a skilled or professional scribe, and the spelling and grammar are in keeping.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Originally part of the collection of G. A. Michaïlidis, and purchased in April 1979. Transferred from the Department of Oriental MSS and Printed Books.
- Former External References:
- P. Michael. Gr. 62
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Library (New Series), 1976-1980 (London: British Library, 1995), p. 142.
D. S. Crawford, 'A Mathematical Tablet', Aegyptus, 33 (1953), 222-40.
D. S. Crawford, Papyri Michaelidae: Being a Catalogue of Greek and Latin Papyri, Tablets and Ostraca in the Library of Mr G.A. Michailidis of Cairo (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1955), pp. 131-35, no. 62.
M. Hombert, ‘Review of David S. Crawford and G. A. Michailidis, Papyri Michaelidae. Being a Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri, Tablets and Ostraca in the Library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo, (Aberdeen 1955)‘, L'Antiquité classique, 25 (1956), 521-25.
R. A. Pack, The Greek and Latin literary texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965, 2nd ed.), no. 2308.
B. Boyaval, ‘P. Michael. 62’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 26 (1977), 253-61.
B. Boyaval, 'Encore P. Michael. 62', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 34 (1979), p. 36.
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), no. 33.
K. McNamee, Abbreviations in Greek Literary Papyri and Ostraca (Chico, CA: Scholars Press 1981).
D. Fowler, ‘A Catalogue of Tables’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 75 (1988), 273-80, no. 24.
W. Brashear, F. Hoogendijk, ‘Corpus tabularum lignearum ceratarumque Aegyptiarum’, Enchoria, 17 (1990), p. 38.
S.J. Clackson, ‘The Michaelides Manuscript Collection’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 100 (1994), 223-26.
J.-L. Fournet, C. Gallazzi, ‘Une tablette scolaire mathématique de Tebtynis’, BIFAO, 96 (1996), p. 173, no. 8.
F. Morelli, 'P. Michael. 62 A (Pack 2 2308): un problema di matematica? : una storia di edizioni e di fraintendimenti', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 122 (1998), 135-38.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 273-74.
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. 52, no. 352.
Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)