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Papyrus 1182
- Record Id:
- 040-002105273
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00009e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469824.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1182
- Title:
- Unknown Philosophical Work (P.Oxy. II 215, P.Lond.Lit. 157, TM 59745, LDAB 842)
- Scope & Content:
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Portions of an unknown philosophical work, possibly by Epicurus, on the popular idea of religion and fear of the gods, criticised by the author. The back bears parts of an account arranged by date, unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105273 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1182 : Unknown Philosophical Work (P.Oxy. II 215, P.Lond.Lit. 157, TM 59745, LDAB 842) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1180]/040-002105273
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll, with writing on both sides. The front bears portions of three columns written along the fibres; on the back, there is one column, broken off at the top, written across the fibres at the top right of the papyrus. The modern annotations refer to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469824.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0099
- End Date:
- -0000
- Date Range:
- 1st century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 232 x 183 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 245 mm.
Script: Irregular uncial hand, not bilinear and exhibiting contrast between large and small letterforms; some strokes end in small hooks; lines are slightly uneven. Verso: Cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, (?) Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1181-1199 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 157
P.Oxy. II 215 - 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. 443.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899), pp. 30-33, no. 215, with pl. V.
Arthur Platt, J. P. Postgate, ‘On the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. II’, The Classical Review 13 (1899), 439-41.
Wilhelm Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), 502-539 (p. 527).
Hermann Diehls, ‘Ein Epikureishes Fragment über Götterverehrung (Oxyrhynch. Pap. II N. 215)’, Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1916), 886-901.
Harold Idris Bell, ‘Bibliography: Graeco-Roman Egypt A. Papyri (1915-1919)’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 6 (1920), pp. 119-146 (p. 127).
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 50, no. 951.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), p. 127, no. 157.
Adelmo Barigazzi, ‘Uomini e dei in Epicuro (P.O. II, 30-32, n. 215)’, Acme 8 (1955), 37-55.
Wolfgang Schmid, ‘Textprobleme eines epikureischen Fragments über Götterverehrung (Pap. Oxy. 215)’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 105 (1962), 368-76.
Wolfgang Schmid, ‘Chi è l'autore del Pap. Oxy. 215?’, in Miscellanea di Studi Alessandrini in memoria di Augusto Rostagni (Torino: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1963), pp. 40-44.
Dirk D. Obbink, ‘POxy. 215 and Epicurean Religious "Theoría"’, in Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Vols. 1-3, (Napoli: Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanesi, 1984), vol. 2, pp. 607-19, with plate.
Dirk D. Obbink, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. 2 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1992), pp. 167-91, no. 51.11.
Dirk D. Obbink, Philodemus. On piety (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 34 and passim.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4, Tavole, (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2008), plate 126.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)