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Papyrus 187
- Record Id:
- 040-002104568
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000371
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147466655.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 187
- Title:
- Ethnographic Text (P.Lond.Lit. 114, TM 59722, LDAB 826, MP3 358), and Plato, Laches (P.Lond.Lit. 144, TM 62591, LDAB 3775, MP3 1408)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond.Lit. 114, TM 59722): Historical-ethnographic work in prose, presumably describing the customs of the Persians and mentioning Agesilaus; assigned to the first or second century; attributed to Ephorus (Res publica Cretensium?) or Theopompus (Valerio 2008, 2019).
Verso (P.Lond.Lit. 144, TM 62591): Plato, Laches 181a8-182a4; assigned to the mid-second/mid-third century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104568 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 187 : Ethnographic Text (P.Lond.Lit. 114, TM 59722, LDAB 826, MP3 358), and Plato, Laches (P.Lond.Lit. 144, TM 62591, LDAB 3775, MP3 1408) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0106]/040-002104568
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments from a papyrus roll, darkened by patches, abraded in places and with small insect holes throughout; bearing writing on both sides.
The front preserves portions of two columns written along the fibres: 20 lines survive of the first column, some of which are very fragmentary, and 18 lines of the second, which is badly damaged; the column width is c. 65 mm, with 15 lines to the column; the intercolumn measures 20 mm. The back preserves portions of three incomplete columns running across the fibres, abraded in places. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147466655.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0250
- Date Range:
- 1st century-mid 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 117 x 112 mm; B: 111 x 60 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 165 x 230 mm.
Script: Recto: Formal round, large and bilinear, occasionally compressed at the end of the lines; paragraphus and one insertion. Verso: Semi-cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 177-208 from L. Paul Philip on 26 March 1891.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 187 ro. descr.
P.Lond. II 187 vo. descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 114
P.Lond.Lit. 144 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 405.
Recto
F. G. Kenyon, ‘Deux papyrus grecs du British Mu-seum. 1. Fragment d' une Λακεδαιμονίων Πολιτεία (?)’, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d’histoire anciennes 21 (1897), pp. 1-4.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xvii, no. 187 ro. descr.
P. Girard, ‘Un texte inédit sur la cryptie des Lacédémoniens’, Revue des Études Grecques 11 (1898), pp. 31-38.
P. Girard, ‘Krypteia’, in Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines III.1 (Paris: Hachette 1900), pp. 871-873.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 25, no. 417.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 88-89, no. 114.
G. L. Barber, The Historian Ephorus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1935), p. xi.
P. Cartledge, Agesilaus and the crisis of Sparta (London: Duckworth 1987), pp. 30-31.
E. Levy, ‘La kryptie et ses contradictions’, Ktema 13 (1988), pp. 245–252.
J. Ducat, Les hilotes (Paris: De Boccard 1990), p. 123.
F. Valerio, ‘PLond inv. 187 recto = PLondLit 114 testo, traduzione e commento’, Papyrologica Lupiensia 17 (2008), pp. 61-83.
C. Biagetti, ‘Teopompo e i papiri, Teopompo nei papiri. Acquisizioni, rimaneggiamenti, attribuzioni’, in G. Ottone (ed.), Historiai para doxan. Documenti greci in frammenti: nuove prospettive esegetiche. Atti dell’Incontro internazionale di studi (Genova, 10–11 Marzo 2016). Themata 19 (Tivoli: Edizioni Tored 2017), pp. 137-177 (pp. 160-164).
Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. A1.3.1 Eforo (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2018), p. 12.
Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. A.2.9.1.Teopompo (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2019), pp. 60-66, no. 4 F.
Verso
C. Haeberlin, ‘Griechische Papyri’, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 14 (1897), pp. 1-13, and passim.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xvii, no. 187 vo. descr.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 52, no. 997.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 122, no. 144.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti.3 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1999), pp. 96-99, no. 80.22.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4, Tavole (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 2000), pl. 109.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)