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Papyrus 1523
- Record Id:
- 040-002105304
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000bb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470071.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1523
- Title:
- Life of Alcibiades (P.Oxy. III 411, P.Lond.Lit. 123, TM 64743, LDAB 5977, MP3 2077)
- Scope & Content:
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Leaf from a parchment codex containing an account of the life of Alcibiades by an unknown author, covering the events from the mutilation of the Herms to the arrival at Sparta (415-414 BC). Thucydides' history seems to have served as a model, but the text displays additional details and some differences.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105304 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1523 : Life of Alcibiades (P.Oxy. III 411, P.Lond.Lit. 123, TM 64743, LDAB 5977, MP3 2077) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1193]/040-002105304
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Leaf from a parchment codex, worm-eaten and bearing writing on both sides. Each page bear two columns, measuring approximately 150 x 58 mm; there are 30 lines to the column, with 15-19 letters per line. The codex belongs to Turner’s ‘large, square’ type. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. III. The fragment is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470071.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0400
- End Date:
- 0499
- Date Range:
- 5th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 216 x 180 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 230 mm.
Script: Biblical Majuscule, with upright and regular letterforms tending to extend horizontally; overall bilinear; no punctuation or lectional signs; iota adscript omitted; one insertion above the line.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, (?) Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1523-1544 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 123
P.Oxy. III 411 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1907 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 309.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part III (London: Egyptian Exploration Fund, 1903), pp. 31-5, no. 411.
Friedrich Blass, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), 257-99 (pp. 282-3).
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 10, no. 117.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 94, no. 123 descr.
Guglielmo Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (Firenze: Le Monnier, 1967), p. 73, with pl. 55.
Italo Gallo, Frammenti biografici da papiri. Vol. 1: La biografia politica (Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1975), pp. 107-140, no. 3, with plates iv-v.
Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), p. 27.
Eric G. Turner, Peter J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (2nd ed.) (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 120-21, no. 71.
Lusia Prandi, ‘Il P. Lit. Lond. 123 e la fortuna storiografica di Alcibiade’, Aegyptus 72 (1992), 3-21.
Luisa Prandi, ‘Un'ipotesi sul "Papiro di Alcibiade" (P. Lit. Lond. 123)’, in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists: Copenhagen, 23-29 August, 1992, ed. by Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994), pp. 332-5.
Kenneth Mayer, ‘Alcibiades the Deserter: P. Oxy. III 411 Col. IV. 98’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998), 232-4.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 100.
Elena Chepel, ‘Anonymous, On Alkibiades (P. Oxy.411) (1120)’, in Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV. Biography and Antiquarian Literature. IV A. Biography. Fasc. 8. Anonymous Biographical Papyri, ed. by James H. Brusuelas, Dirk Obbink and Stefan Schorn (Leiden-Boston: E. J. Brill, 2019), pp. 29-56, no. 1120.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)