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Papyrus 756
- Record Id:
- 040-002105145
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003d6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463045.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 756
- Title:
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Notification of Death (P.Oxy. I 79 ro., P.Lond. III 756 ro. descr., TM 20739), and Ethopoea of Alexander (P.Oxy. I 79 vo., P.Lond.Lit. 162, P.Lond. III 756 vo. descr., TM 64094, LDAB 5312, MP3 2588)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy. I 79 ro., P.Lond. III 756 ro. descr., TM 20739): Notification of death, numbered at the top, addressed to Iulius, village scribe (komogrammateus) of Sephtha, from Cephalas, who declares the death of his son Panechotes and asks that he may be added to the register of the dead. The oath follows. Dated between 180-192.
Verso (P.Oxy. I 79 vo., P.Lond.Lit. 162, P.Lond. III 756 vo. descr., TM 64094, LDAB 5312, MP3 2588): A school exercise with an ethopoea (a rhetorical exercise impersonating a character) of Alexander the Great, presumably concerning Darius’s death. Moral precepts are contained in the first five lines; the death and burial of a regal figure are then referred to. The text has been corrected in several places, and there is an erased line at the end. Assigned to the late second or early third century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105145 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 756 : Notification of Death (P.Oxy. I 79 ro., P.Lond. III 756 ro. descr., TM 20739), and Ethopoea of Alexander (P.Oxy. I 79 vo.,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0878]/040-002105145
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with abrasion and few holes; it bears writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front, and across them on the back. The text on the front is incomplete, lacking the end; upper and left margins are extant; no margin was left to the right. The text on the back seems complete and all margins are extant. A line was washed out at the end. Modern annotations are visible on the front, with the number in red referring 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_100147463045.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0225
- Date Range:
- late 2nd century-early 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 130 x 70 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 185 x 130 mm.
Script: Recto: Thin, sloping cursive hand with a tendency to become smaller. Verso: Rapid, large, irregular hand with cursive elements; corrections, erasures and additions above the line occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Recto: Sesphtha/Sephtha, 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:
- C.Pap.Gr. II 65
P.Lond. III 756 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 162
P.Oxy. I 79 - 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.
Recto
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1898), pp. 142-143, no. 79.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxii, no. 756 descr.
Corpus Papyrorum Graecarum II. Il Controllo della popolazione nell'Egitto Romano, Pt. 1, Le Denunce di morte (Azzate: Tipolitografia Tibiletti 1985), no. 65.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1986), p. 235.
Verso
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1898), pp. 142-143, no. 79.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxii, no. 756 descr.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 131, no. 162
R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta: Georgia Scholars Press 1996), pp. 260-261, no. 350, with pl. LVIII.
R. Cribiore, ‘Literary School Exercises’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116 (1997) pp. 53–60 (p. 59).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2002), p. 142.
G. Bastianini, F. Maltomini, ‘Etopea di Alessandro alla morte di Dario (rilettura di P.Oxy. 1 79 "verso")’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 195 (2015), pp. 38-43.
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth, ed. by Richard Stoneman (London: British Library, 2022), p. 32, no. 8.
- Exhibitions:
- Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth, British Library, London, 21 October 2022 - 19 February 2022
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)