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Papyrus 692
- Record Id:
- 040-002105078
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000355
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472044.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 692
- Title:
- Epicurus, Unknown Work (P.Grenf. II 7(a), P.Lond.Lit. 158, TM 59757, LDAB 861, MP3 2575)
- Scope & Content:
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Two columns of an unknown philosophical work, attributed to Epicurus; from mummy cartonnage. The back bears traces of writing, unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105078 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 692 : Epicurus, Unknown Work (P.Grenf. II 7(a), P.Lond.Lit. 158, TM 59757, LDAB 861, MP3 2575) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0385]/040-002105078
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus fragment from mummy cartonnage, originally covered with painted plaster; with traces of writing on both sides. On the front, there are portions of two columns running along the fibres; the first is faint. On the back, there remain traces of writing, illegible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening for the text on the back.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472044.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 75 x 114 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 135 x 165 mm.
Script: Small upright hand, rather irregular and uneven.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 14 November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 7(a)
P.Lond. III 692 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 158 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), p. 535.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), pp. 15-16, no. 7(a).
H. Diels, ‘Ein epikureisches Fragment über Götterverehrung’, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Phil.-Hist. Klasse (1916), 886-906 (pp. 900-901).
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 50, no. 948.
Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 692 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 128, no. 158.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. 2 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1992), 51.T10.
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), tav. 80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)