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Papyrus 785
- Record Id:
- 040-002105174
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000024
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463321.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 785
- Title:
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Xenophon, Oeconomicus VIII-IX (P.Oxy. II 227, P.Lond.Lit. 151, TM 62979, LDAB 4171, MP3 1563)
- Scope & Content:
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Five fragmentary columns of a papyrus roll containing portions of Xenophon, Oeconomicus VIII-IX:
Column 1: Oeconomicus VIII.17-19;
Column 2: Oeconomicus VIII.19-20;
Column 3: Oeconomicus VIII.20-22;
Column 4: Oeconomicus VIII.22-23;
Column 5: Oeconomicus IX.1-2.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105174 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 785 : Xenophon, Oeconomicus VIII-IX (P.Oxy. II 227, P.Lond.Lit. 151, TM 62979, LDAB 4171, MP3 1563) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0864]/040-002105174
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, darkened in places and damaged by wormholes throughout; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Portions of five columns containing an average of 30 lines survive; the third and the fourth columns are broken off at the bottom, and the third has few letters at the beginnings of the lines. Each column measures 168 x 47 mm; each line has an average of 13 letters. Upper and lower margins survive to 77 mm and 23 mm respectively; the intercolumn meaures 23-26 mm. The number in red, repeated twice, refers to the edition in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463321.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 1st century-2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size: fr. 1: 260 x 177 mm; fr. 2: 184 x 132 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 320 x 420 mm.
Script: Good-sized formal round hand, strictly bilinear and with no contrast between narrow and broad letters; some serifs decorate the end of verticals. Few corrections occur (e.g. insertion of iota adscript), perhaps by a second hand. Paragraphus is used. The scribe has been identified as Oxyrhynchus Scribe #A13.
- 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.Lit. 151
P.Oxy. II 227 - 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. 440.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 126-127, no. 229.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 502-539 (pp. 520-521).
A. W. Persson, Zur Textgeschichte Xenophons (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup 1915), pp. 48-49.
B. P. Grenfell, ‘The Value of Papyri for the Textual Criticism of Extant Greek Authors’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 39 (1919), pp. 16-36 (p. 27).
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 125, no. 151.
E. G. Turner, 'Scribes and Scholars of Oxyrhynchus', Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung Erherzog Rainer n.s. 5 (1956), pp. 141-146 (p. 146).
W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 43, 51, 62, 127, 137, 162, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)