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Papyrus 155

Record Id:

040-002104536

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00033f

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147465689.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 155

Title:

Surgical Treatise (P.Lond.Lit. 166, P.Lond. II 155 ro. descr., TM 59973, LDAB 1085, MP³ 2374), and Cercidas’ Choliambi (P.Lond.Lit. 58, P.Lond. II 155 vo descr.. TM 59438, LDAB 537, MP³ 238)

Scope & Content:

Portion of the same roll as P.Cair.Mich. II 11.

Recto (P.Lond.Lit. 166, P.Lond. II 155 ro. descr., TM 59973, LDAB 1085, MP3 2374): Part of a medical treatise on surgery, explaining four procedures for reducing the dislocation of the jaw. The Michigan piece deals with the dislocation of the shoulder, anterior and posterior. The treatise has generally been attributed to Heliodorus; Leith (2015) suggests that it might have been a source for Heliodorus; assigned to the early second century on palaeographical grounds.

Verso (P.Lond.Lit. 58, P.Lond. II 155 vo descr.. TM 59438, LDAB 537, MP3 238): Part of a moralising anthology with prose and verse; the London papyrus preserves choliambic verses by Cercidas on the moral degradation of the contemporary world. The Michigan piece contains part of Epictetus’ Discourses 4. Assigned to the late second or third century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104536

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 155 : Surgical Treatise (P.Lond.Lit. 166, P.Lond. II 155 ro. descr., TM 59973, LDAB 1085, MP3 2374), and Cercidas’ Choliambi (P.Lond.Lit.…

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0074]/040-002104536

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Portion of the same papyrus roll as a Michigan papyrus inventoried as P. 4829 b/26/B; of good quality, but damaged by insect holes and abrasion in places; bearing writing on both sides; housed in a glass frame.

Recto: Portions of five columns (234 x 70 mm) written along the fibres, three of which are almost complete, with 39 lines, each having 23-28 letters. The first and the fifth column are very fragmentary. The upper margin survives up to 15 mm, the lower 35 mm; the intercolumn measures 15 mm.

Verso: Portions of three columns written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front; of the third column, only the beginnings of few lines remain; the second column is the best preserved and is 117 mm high; the lower margin is ample and measures 110-120 mm.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0000

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

1st century-3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 285 x 371 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 330 x 430 mm.

Script: Recto: Informal round of small size, with cursive traits; iota adscript usually occurs. Diple used as line filler; paragraphus occurs. Verso: Practised semi-cursive of small size.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Karanis, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 139-176 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 2 February 1891.

Former External References:

P.Lond. II 155 ro. descr.
P.Lond. II 155 vo. descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 166
P.Lond.Lit. 58

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 399.

Recto

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xiv, no. 155 ro. descr.

C. Haeberlin, ‘Griechische Papyri’, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 14 (1897), p. 398, no. 134.

K. Kalbfleisch, Papyri Graecae Musei Britannici et Musei Berolinensis (Rostock: Typis adlerianis, 1902), pp. 3-8.

C. H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: 1923), p. 43, no. 813.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 133, no. 166.

W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 337-381 (pp. 375-376).

M.-H. Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine (Genève: Librairie Droz 1981), no. 103 descr.

M.-H. Marganne, ‘De la réduction des luxations de la mâchoire: précédents antiques à la manoeuvre de Nélaton’, Revue médicale de Liège 40 (1985), pp. 105-108.

M.-H. Marganne, ‘Le chirurgien Héliodore: tradition directe et indirecte’, in G. Sabbah (ed.), Mémoires VIII - Centre Jean Palerne. Études de médecine romaine (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université 1988), pp. 107-111.

I. Andorlini Marcone, ‘L'apporto dei papiri alla conoscenza della scienza medica antica’, in H. Temporini, W. Haase (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II, 37.1 (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter 1993), pp. 458-562 (p. 496, no. 57).

M.-H. Marganne, La chirurgie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs (Leiden-Boston: Brill 1998), pp. 35-66, no. 3.

D. B. Leith, ‘Surgical Treatise (House B12)’, in M. G. El-Maghrabi, C. Römer (eds.), Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis (P.Mich.Cair. II) (Berlin: De Gruyter 2015), pp. 34-44.

Verso

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xiv, no. 155 vo. descr.

G. A. Gerhard, Phoinix von Kolophon; Texte und Untersuchungen (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1909), pp. 7-10.

H. J. M. Milne, ‘Readings from Papyri’, The Classical Review 36 (1922), pp. 165-166 (p. 165).

A. D. Knox, Cercidas. The first Greek anthologist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1923), pp. v-vi and passim.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 45, no. 58.

A. D. Knox, Herodes, Cercidas and the Greek choliambic poets (except Callimachus and Babrius) (London: W. Heinemann 1929), p. 228.

F. Pordomingo, Antologías de época helenística en papiro (Papyrologica Florentina 43) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2013), pp. 225-230.

D. B. Leith, ‘Epictetus, Discourses 4.1.136-138’, in M. G. El-Maghrabi, C. Römer (eds.), Texts from the "Archive" of Socrates, the Tax Collector, and Other Contexts at Karanis (P.Mich.Cair. II) (Berlin: De Gruyter 2015), pp. 45-52.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Arsinoë, Egyptian Nome

Places:

Socnopæi Nesus, Egypt

Related Material:

Part of the same roll as a papyrus housed in Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library, inventoried as P. 4829 b/26/B.