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Papyrus 744
- Record Id:
- 040-002105132
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003ca
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462965.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 744
- Title:
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Demosthenes, Exordia, and Accounts (P.Oxy. I 26, P.Lond.Lit. 129, TM 59548, LDAB 650, MP3 335)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: Seven columns of a papyrus roll containing Demosthenes, Exordia 26-29.
Columns 1-2: Exordium 26;
Column 3-Column 4, line 4: Exordium 27;
Column 4 end of line 4-Column 5: Exordium 28;
Columns 6-7: Exordium 29.
On the back are accounts of the second to early third century, which continue on the front, between columns 5 and 6, in the upper margin and in the lower fragments. Unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105132 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 744 : Demosthenes, Exordia, and Accounts (P.Oxy. I 26, P.Lond.Lit. 129, TM 59548, LDAB 650, MP3 335) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0876]/040-002105132
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus roll of good quality, which had been cut to host the text on the verso; darkened in places and with spots of ink throughout. The text runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. On the front, the upper parts of seven columns survive; each column originally had 24-25 lines; the column width is between 52 and 59 mm; the upper margin measures 20 mm, and the intercolumn between 22 and 25 mm. A small part of the upper margin and the space between columns 5 and 6 was used for continuing the accounts of the back, written upside down in relation to the rest of the text on the front; the lower fragments also contain the accounts, with the text on the right fragment being upside down. On the back are columns of various height and width, with intercolumns of various width. Modern annotations are visible on both sides, and the number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462965.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: fr. 1: 115 x 526 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 585 mm.
Script: Recto: Formal Mixed (Severe Style) of medium size, with slight inclination of the axis. Identified as Oxyrhynchus Scribe #B2 (Johnson). Paragraphus and line-filler by first hand; occasional stops, marks of elision and few corrections and marginal annotations by a second hand. Verso and accounts on recto: Rapid cursive hand of small size.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus (?), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900. Of these, papyri 739-814 form part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 744 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 129
P.Oxy. I 26 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 439.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1898), pp. 53-56, no. 26.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), p. 116.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxx, no. 744 descr.
W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C.H. Beck 1925), pp. 136-137, with pl. 83.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 98, no. 129.
C. H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), pl. 19a.
G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo (Firenze: Le Monnier 1962), pp. 293-294.
G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (Firenze: Le Monnier 1967), p. 20.
B. Hausmann, Demosthenis Fragmenta in papyris et membranis servata (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 1978), pp. 21-22, no. 43.
W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 29-30, 56, 64, 66, 75 and passim, with pl. 6.
L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 84, no. 4).
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 105.
G. Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 101-148 (p. 133, fig. 5.27).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)