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Papyrus 110
- Record Id:
- 040-002104490
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000312
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 110
- Title:
- Horoscope of Anubion (P. Lond. I 110, TM 23939, LDAB 23939)
- Scope & Content:
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A horoscope of Anubion, 5 [fifth son?] of a certain Psansnois. The birth date of Anubion is expressed in accordance with both the Roman and the Egyptian calendar: Anubion was born on December 4, 137 CE, at the beginning of the first hour of the day. Information of the celestial bodies are then provided.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104490 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 110 : Horoscope of Anubion (P. Lond. I 110, TM 23939, LDAB 23939) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0762]/040-002104490
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Four papyrus sheets, written on one side along the fibres; number 1 is broken on the left, numbers 2 and 3 are nearly complete and have all margins extant; number 4 is damaged in the lower right corner. Mounted on cardboard in glass.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0138
- End Date:
- 0138
- Date Range:
- After 10 July 138
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Sheets of varying size, housed in glass cases forming a booklet and measuring 210 x 170 mm.
Script: Literary hand resembling contemporary official hands of the chancery type. Upright letter shapes with a strongly vertical trend. Diaeresis on initial iota and upsilon.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 107-111 from from Selima Harris (b. 1830, d. 1885) in July 1872.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. I 110
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1861-1875 (London: British Museum 1877), pp. 833-834.
K. Wessely, Griechische Zauberpapyrus von Paris und London II (Vienna: Tempsky 1888), p. 27.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 130-132, no. 110.
C. H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1956), p. 18, no. 18a.
O. Neugebauer, H. B. van Hoesen, Greek Horoscopes (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 48) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1959), pp. 39-44, no. 137 B.
S. Heilen, D. G. Greenbaum, ‘Astrology in the Greco-Roman World’, in A. R. Jones (ed.), Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2016), pp. 123-142 (pp. 135-137).
Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
- P.Paris 19 and P.Paris 19b concern the same horoscope. P.Paris 19 is a copy of Papyrus 110, whereas P.Paris 19b offers a different text.