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Papyrus 815-816

Record Id:

040-002105205

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000063

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147469344.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 815-816

Title:

Commentary on Aristotle’s Topics (P.Fay. 3, P.Lond.Lit. 180, TM 59295, LDAB 392, MP³165), and Homer, Iliad VIII (P.Fay. 4, P.Lond.Lit. 17, TM 61207, LDAB 2347, MP³ 830)

Scope & Content:

Upper papyrus (Papyrus 815, P.Fay. 3, TM 59295): Portion of a commentary on Aristotle’s Topics II.2, with quotations and their paraphrasis. The quotations project to the left. Assigned to the second half of the first century AD.

Lower papyrus (Papyrus 816, P.Fay. 4, TM 61207): Small fragment of Homer, Iliad VIII, with the ends of lines 332-336 and the beginnings of lines 362-369. Assigned to the second century BC.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105205

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 815-816 : Commentary on Aristotle’s Topics (P.Fay. 3, P.Lond.Lit. 180, TM 59295, LDAB 392, MP3 165), and Homer, Iliad VIII (P.Fay.…

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1421]/040-002105205

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View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, bearing writing on one side only; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (Papyrus 815): Fragment of a papyrus roll, darkened at the top, broken off on all sides and with surface damage throughout; there remain portions of three columns, and the second is the best preserved. No margin survives; the intercolumn is minimal. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Fay.

Lower papyrus (Papyrus 816): Fragment of papyrus roll, broken off at all sides, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of two consecutive columns are preserved; of the first, the ends of 5 lines remain; of the second the beginnings of 8 lines. Each column would have had 34 lines. The intercolumn survives. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Fay.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0199

End Date:

0099

Date Range:

2nd century BC-2nd half of 1st century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Papyrus 815: 120 x 111 mm; Papyrus 816: 55 x 80 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 245 x 170 mm.

Script: Papyrus 815: Neat, slightly sloping hand of medium size. Papyrus 816: Medium-sized upright hand, with no decoration; square-shaped epsilon.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Papyrus 815: Theadelpheia, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Papyrus 816: Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Both papyri were presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900.

Former External References:

P.Fay. 3
P.Fay. 4
P.Lond. III 815 descr.
P.Lond. III 816 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 17
P.Lond.Lit. 180

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 440.

Papyrus 815

Fayûm towns and their papyri (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1900), pp. 87-89, no. 3.

W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 337-381 (p. 367).

Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxvii, no. 815 descr.

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 102.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 147-148, no. 180.

R. Stark, ‘Textgeschichtliche und literarkritische Folgerungen aus neueren Papyri’, Annales Universitatis Saraviensis 8 (1959), pp. 31-49 (pp. 37-38).

P. Moraux, Aristoteles Graecus. Die griechischen Manuskripte des Aristoteles (Peripatoi 8) (Berlin: W. de Gruyter 1976), pp. 458-459.M .S. Funghi, W. Cavini, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 3, Commentari (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1995), no. 2.

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. 23.

M. Stroppa, in G. Bastianini et al. (eds.), Commentaria et lexica graeca in papyris reperta (CLGP). 1,1,4, Pars 1, Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Vol. 1, Aeschines - Bacchylides; Fasc. 4, Aristophanes – Bacchylides (München: Saur 2012), pp. 262-266, Aristoteles 7.

L. Vannini, ‘Papiri con edizioni commentate’, in P. Schubert (ed.), Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrology, Genève 16-21 août 2010 (Genève: Droz 2012), pp. 801-805 (pp. 802-803).

Papyrus 816

Fayûm towns and their papyri (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1900), pp. 89-90, no. 4, with pl. 6.

W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 337-381 (p. 342).

Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxxvii, no. 816 descr.

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 562.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 24, no. 17.

S. Pernigotti, M. Capasso, Bakchias: una città del deserto egiziano che torna a vivere: la prima campagna di scavo della Missione archeologica delle Università degli studi di Bologna e di Lecce nel Fayyum (Napoli: Procaccini 1994), pl.58.

M. L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München-Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2001), p. 89, no. 18.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aristotle, philosopher, 384 BC-322 BC
Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000036354151X

Places:

Bakchias, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt
Theadelpheia (Batn el-Harit), meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt