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Papyrus 1185
- Record Id:
- 040-002105276
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000a1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469829.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1185
- Title:
- Account (P.Lond. III 1185 ro. descr., TM 29259), and List of Olympic Victors (P.Oxy. II 222, P.Lond.Lit. 124, TM 59764, LDAB 868, MP3 2188)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Lond. III 1185 ro. descr., TM 29259): Fragmentary money account mentioning the tenth and fourteenth years of reign of an emperor (Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Secerus); unpublished.
Verso (P.Oxy. II 222, P.Lond.Lit. 124, TM 59764, LDAB 868, MP3 2188): List of Olympic victors covering the 75th-78th and 81st-83rd Olympiads (480-468 BC and 456-448 BC), arranged in sections. Each entry includes name, ethnic and athletic event. Papyrus 2932 (P.Oxy. XXXIII 2381) may be another fragment from the same roll (see Lobel, P.Oxy. XXIII p. 100), and contains part of a list of victors for the 96th Olympiad (396 BC).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105276 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1185 : Account (P.Lond. III 1185 ro. descr., TM 29259), and List of Olympic Victors (P.Oxy. II 222, P.Lond.Lit. 124, TM 59764, LDAB 868,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1182]/040-002105276
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a papyrus roll, with holes, bearing writing on both sides; another fragment of the same roll may be Papyrus 2932. The front preserves the top of a column written along the fibres, broken off at the bottom and right, with upper and left margins extant. On the back there are parts of two columns against the fibres; the first is better preserved and contained 67 lines. The second column lacks the top and the right-hand side, and contained 64 lines. The intercolumn is extant. There are modern annotations on both sides; the number in red refers 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_100147469829.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 180 x 95 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 150 mm.
Script: Recto: Thin cursive hand, with some enlarged letters. Verso: Both columns were written by same copyist, but in two different styles, the second being larger and more upright. Paragraphus marks end of sections.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1180-1199 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1185 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 124
P.Oxy. II 222 - 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.
Recto
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), p. 85.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxiii, no. 1085 descr.
Verso
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 85-95, no. 222.
T. W. Beasley, ‘Fragment d'une liste de vainqueurs aux jeux olympiques (Papyrus d'Oxyrhynchus)’, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes 24 (1900), pp. 61-62.
C. Robert, ‘Die Ordnung der Olympischen Spiele und die Sieger der 75.-83. Olympiade’, Hermes 35 (1900), pp. 141-195.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 502-539 (pp. 531-532).
H. Diels, ‘Die Olympionikenliste aus Oxyrhynchos’, Hermes 36 (1901), pp. 72-80.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxiii, no. 1085 descr.
J. Jüthner, Philostratos über Gymnastik (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1909), pp. 63-64.
A. S. Hunt, ‘Papyri and Papyrology’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1 (1914), pp. 81-92 (p. 84, pl. 8).
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 433.
W. Janell, ‘Chronicon Olympicum’, Klio 21 (1927), pp. 344-349.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 94-95, no. 124.
G. de Sanctis, ‘Lacare’, Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 56 (1928), pp. 53-77 (pp. 70-77).
J. G. Winter, Life and Letters in the Papyri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1933), pp. 209-210.
F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrHist) (Berlin: Weidmann 1950), 415 F1-2.
A. A. Mosshammer, ‘The Date of the First Pythiad—Again’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 23 (1982), pp. 15-30.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXIII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1956), pp. 100-101, no. 2381, with pl. iii.
T. S. Pattie, E. G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board 1974), p. 34, no. 51.
E. G. Turner, P. J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), p. 110, no. 65, with pl.
P. Christesen, Olympic victor lists and ancient Greek history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), pp. 202-215, 382-384.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)