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Papyrus 98
- Record Id:
- 040-002104479
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00030b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108321.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 98
- Title:
- Greek and Old Coptic Horoscope (P.Lond. I. 98; P.Copt. 366, TM 23938), and Hyperides' Funeral Oration over Leosthenes (P.Lond.Lit. 133, TM 61282)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: lines 1-115 - Greek horoscope for the year 95CE
lines 116-18 - The Old Coptic Horoscope
Verso: The Funeral Oration of Hyperides over Leosthenes (TLG 0030.006)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104479 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 98 : Greek and Old Coptic Horoscope (P.Lond. I. 98; P.Copt. 366, TM 23938), and Hyperides' Funeral Oration over Leosthenes (P.Lond.Lit.… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0690]/040-002104479
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
15 fragments of a roll, written on both sides, framed and glazed.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108321.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Coptic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Coptic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0095
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 95-199
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus
Dimensions: 230 x 1020 mm.
Ruling: 6 columns of 33 lines on the recto and 13 columns of 33-44 lines on the verso. Fragments have been re-ordered and framed in a glass case.
Script: Recto: "Regular and neat" uncial for the Greek (Greek Papyri (1893). p. 126) with Old Coptic at the end using Demotic signs in both the Greek and the Coptic. Verso: Coarse unformed uncial, unprofessional use of paragraphs and spaces, no accents and breathings, possibly a school copy.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Thebes (?), Egypt
Provenance: Found in Thebes and purchased by the Reverend Henry Stobart (b. 1824, d. 1895) and presented to the British Museum on 8 January 1857.
- Former Internal References:
- P. Copt. 366
P. Lond. I. 98
P. Lond. Lit. 133 - Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_98
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLIV-MDCCCLXXV, (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 831.
Churchill Babington, Ὑπερείδουλόγος ἐπιτάφιος, (Cambridge: University Press, 1858).
Churchill Babington, Ὑπερείδουλόγος ἐπιτάφιος, (Cambridge: University Press, 1859).
Charles Wyclife Goodwin, 'Sur un horoscope grec contenant les noms de plusieur', Melanges Egyptologiques, 12 (1864), pp. 294-306.
Charles Wyclife Goodwin, 'On an Egyptian text in Greek characters.' Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 6 (1868), pp. 18-24.
Friedrich Blass, Hyperidis orationes quattuor cum caeterarum fragmentis, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1869), pp. 49-67.
Carl Wessely, 'Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London', Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, philosophisch-historische Klasse 36 (1888), pp. 150-152.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I, (London: British Museum, 1893), pp. 126-130.
Francis Llewellyn, Griffith, 'The Old Coptic Horoscope from the Stobart Collection,' Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache 38 (1900), pp. 71–85
Frederic G. Kenyon, Hyperidis Orationes et Fragmenta, (Oxford: Clarendon, 1907), no vi.
Walter Ewing Crum, Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum, (London: British Museum, 1908), p. 173. no. 366.
Christian Jensen, Hyperidis Orationes sex cum ceterarum fragmentis, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1917), pp. xvi-xxi; 90-113.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum, London 1927, p. 99, no. 133.
J. Cerny/P.E. Kahle/R.A. Parker, 'The Old Coptic Horoscope', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43 (1957), pp. 86-100.
Robert Kasser, 'Papyrus Londiniensis 98 (The Old Coptic Horoscope) and Papyrus Bodmer VI', Journal of Egyptian Archeology 49 (1963), pp. 157- 160.
Tom Pattie and Eric Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus, (London: British Library, 1974), p. 42. no. 66.
Judson Herrman, Hyperides.Funeral Oration, (Oxford: University Press, 2009), pp. 27-34 (with detailed bibliography).
Luisa Petruzziello, Epitafio per i caduti del primo anno della guerra lamiaca: Plit. Lond. 133v, (Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra, 2009).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)