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Papyrus 130

Record Id:

040-002104510

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000326

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147464962.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 130

Title:

Horoscope (P.Lond. I 130, TM 23940)

Scope & Content:

Horoscope, cast for 31 March 81, the third hour of the night, written by Titus Pitenius, with an introductory letter addressing a certain Hermon. Pitenius has calculated the astrological data for the Sun, Moon and five planets basing his computations on the “perpetual tables”; detailed exposition of the data and descriptions of the planetary positions are provided.

Papyrus 130(1)

Columns 1-2: Introduction

Column 3: Sun;

Column 4: Moon;

End of column 4-column 5: Phainon, star of Kronos (Saturn);

Column 6: Pyroeis, star of Ares (Mars); Phosphoros, star of Aphrodite (Venus);

Column 7: Stilbon, star of Hermes (Mercury), and Horoscopos

Column 8: “Titus Pitenius computed it as is set forth”.

Papyrus 130(2)

Column 1: Enumeration of four planets; closing, with time of pregnancy.

Column 2: “With good fortune”.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104510

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 130 : Horoscope (P.Lond. I 130, TM 23940)

Contains:

Papyrus 130(1) : Part 1 of the horoscope
Papyrus 130(2) : Part 2 of the horoscope

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Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0048]/040-002104510

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Papyrus roll, with a detached fragment, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in two glass frames named Papyrus 130(1) and Papyrus 130(2).

Papyrus 130(1): 7 columns, of 22-30 lines, each line having an average of 15-18 letters, and another short column of 7 lines in the left-hand margin; with some breaks along the vertical folds, and a couple of small insect holes; abraded in places; upper and lower margins extant.

Papyrus 130(2): with surface damage and mutilated in the right-hand side; one column and two additional lines on the right-hand side.

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0081

End Date:

0081

Date Range:

after 13 September 81

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Roll: 255 x 635 mm, housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 130(1) and Papyrus 130(2).

Script: Large and broadly spaced hand, bold and somewhat ornamental; paragraphus used.

Custodial History:

Origin: Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Moirai, Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 130-137 from John R. Alexander according to the Trustees’ minutes of 12 April 1890.

Former External References:

P.Lond. I 130

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 392.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), pp. 132-139, no. 130, with pll. 77-79.

A. Bouché-Leclercq, L’astrologie grecque (Paris: E. Leroux 1899), pp. 196, 213, and passim.

U. Wilcken, Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien: ein Beitrag zur antiken Wirtschaftsgeschichte II (Leipzig-Berlin: Gieseke & Devrient, 1899), pp. 792-793.

W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C. H. Beck 1925), p. 122, no. 81.

D. MacNaughton, A Scheme of Egyptian Chronology (London: Luzac & Co. 1932), pl. xvii.

O. Neugebauer, H. B. van Hoesen, Greek Horoscopes (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1959), pp. 21-28, no. 81.

S. Feraboli, Claudio Tolomeo: le previsioni astrologiche (Tetrabiblos) (Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla 1985), pp. 394-395.

G. Ioannidou, ‘Two Berlin Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 72 (1988), pp. 261-266 (pp. 261-262).

D. Hagedorn, K. A. Worp, ‘Das Wandeljahr im römischen Ägypten’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 104 (1994), pp. 243-255 (pp. 247, 252).

A. Jones, ‘Notes on Astronomical Papyri’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 121 (1998), pp. 203-210 (p. 206, n. 10).

A. Jones, Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1999), pp. 283, 285 and passim.

D. Gieseler Greenbaum, ‘Calculating the Lots of Fortune and Daemon in Hellenistic Astrology’, Culture And Cosmos 11 (2007), pp. 163-187.

R. Beck, ‘Imagery and Narrative in an Ancient Horoscope: P.Lond. 130’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 7 (2013), pp. 397-406.

S. Heilen, ‘Short Time in Greco-Roman Astrology’, in K. J. Miller, S. Symons (eds.), Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2019), pp. 239-270 (pp. 256, 258-267).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the Library of the Athenaion Politeia (TM Arch ID 562).