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Papyrus 1843

Record Id:

040-002105383

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000105

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ISAD(G)

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Papyrus 1843

Title:

Land-Survey Register (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335) and ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’ (P.Oxy. V 842, TM 59483, LDAB 583, MP³2189)

Scope & Content:

Recto (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335): Land-survey register, arranged in several columns, some of which very damaged, and containing a list of plots of crown land in an unspecified village located in the south-west of the Arsinoite nome, near Ibion Argaiou. Individual holdings are grouped in larger plots, of which geographical position, size, rents and adjacent areas are first given. A double system of numbering each larger lot was used, the first concerning this register, the second related to a more extensive register. A detailed description of individual plots belonging to a specific section is then given, listing the physical position of the plot, the name of the lessee or cultivator, size and rent, adjacent plots, changes with regards to the rent as the result of reassessment. Column 1 of Papyrus 1843(1) is written in a different hand and contains a concluding summary; further detached and unplaced fragments housed in Papyrus 1843(4).

Verso (P.Oxy. V 842, TM 59483, LDAB 583, MP³2189): The papyrus contains part of the ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’, the authorship of which is debated, and relates events that took place around 395 BC, focusing on the naval operations by Conon in Caunus and Rhodes against the Spartans, Agesilaus’ campaigns in Asia Minor and the causes of the outbreak of the Corinthian war. Two years are explicitly mentioned, the eighth and the ninth, source of debate among scholars. At least 21 columns survive, each containing an average of 40 lines with the exception of column 5, which consists of 60 lines; the columns are approximately 85 mm wide and between 160 and 200 mm high. The intercolumnium is between 18 and 20 mm on average. The columns were divided into sections A-D by the editors; further fragments, numbered as 16-72 (fr. 65 not belonging here) in addition to 9 unnumbered fragments with no writing on the verso, have not been localised and are housed in Papyrus 1843(4).

Papyrus 1843(1)verso, columns 1- 4 = Section A: Aids sent from Athens to Conon and his fleet in Caunus; excursus on previous events; beginning of the narrative on the events of the eighth year.

Papyrus 1843(1)verso, columns 5 – 8 = Section B: Agesilaus’ campaign in Asia Minor (spring 395); battle of Sardis.

Papyrus 1843(2)verso, columns 1-2 (= 9-10 of the roll) with fragments 8-15 = Section C: broken; with description of a character, whose name is lost.

Papyrus 1843(2)verso, columns 3 (=11 of the roll) -Papyrus 1843(3)verso column 5 (= 21of the roll) = Section D: Democratic revolution in Rhodes; on the Boeotian constitution; prelude to the Corinthian war; Agesilaus’ army in Asia Minor.

Papyrus 1843(4)verso: unplaced fragments.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105383

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1843 : Land-Survey Register (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335) and ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’ (P.Oxy. V 842, TM 59483, LDAB 583, MP3 2189)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0634]/040-002105383

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a long papyrus roll, written on both sides and damaged throughout; originally consisting of approximately 230 fragments, some of which remain unplaced (those numbered as 16-72 and those unnumbered, housed in frame 4; fr. 65 does not belong here); housed in four glass frames, named Papyrus 1843(1), Papyrus 1843(2), Papyrus 1843(3), and Papyrus 1843(4).

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

2nd century-3rd century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Height: 212 mm (for further details on dimensions of each fragment see P. McKechnie, S. J. Kern, Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, pp. 4-5). Housed in four glass frames named as Papyrus 1843(1)Verso, Papyrus 1843(2)Verso, Papyrus 1843(3)Verso, Papyrus 1843(4)Verso measuring 270 x 760 mm, 270 x 880 mm, 270 x 585 mm and 270 x 435 mm respectively.

Script: Recto: Two cursive hands, one of which wrote column 1. Verso: Two hands, Severe Style, the first with oval letters of varying size sloping to the right; the second hand, to be found in column 5 and 6, lines 1-27, smaller and rougher. Punctuation is by spacing or by using a paragraphos and sometimes a coronis; a few accents and breathings are marked and diaeresis occasionally occurs; abbreviations are also used; the second hand employed high points and added iota adscript.

Custodial History:

Origin: Arsinoite nome, Egypt (Verso: Arsinoite nome, Egypt or Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt).

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Found in 1906 and presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund in February 1909 together with Papyrus 1842; transferred on 4 September 1911.

Former External References:

P.Oxy. V 842
P.Oxy. VI 918

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 314.

Recto:

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VI (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1908), pp. 278-282, no. 918.

A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 64-66, no. 21.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXVIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 2012), p. 151, 6 n.

Verso:

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri V (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1908), pp. 110-242, no. 842.

G. Busolt, ‘Der Neue Historiker und Xenophon’, Hermes 43 (1908), pp. 255-285.

A. v. Mess, ‘Die Hellenika von Oxyrhynchos’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue Folge 63 (1908), pp. 370-391.

U. Wilcken, ‘Ein Theopompfragment in den Neuen Hellenika’, Hermes 43 (1908), pp. 475-477.

B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, Hellenica Oxyrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi fragmentis (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1909).

E. Meyer, Theopomps Hellenika. Mit einer Beilage über die Rede an die Larisacer und die Verfassung Thessaliens (Halle: M. Niemeyer 1909).

W. Judeich, ‘Theopomps Hellenika’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue Folge 66 (1911), pp. 94-139.

E. M. Walker, The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, its Authorship and Authority (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1913).

J. H. Lipsius, Cratippi Hellenicorum fragmenta oxyrhynchia. Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 138 (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber 1916).

F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (FGrHist) II A, pp. 17-35, II C, pp. 6-20.

E. Kalinka, Hellenika Oxyrhynchia (Lipsiae: B. G. Teubner 1927).

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: The Trustees 1927), p. 85, no. 110.

M. Gigante, Le Elleniche di Ossirinco (Roma: Gismondi 1949).

F. Jacoby and P. Maas, ‘The Authorship of the Hellenica of Oxyrhynchus (with an Appendix Containing the Newly Published Fragments)’, The Classical Quarterly 44 (1950), pp. 1-11.

A. W. Gomme, ‘Who Was 'Kratippos'?’, The Classical Quarterly. New Series 4 (1954), pp. 53-55.

C. H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 17, no. 17b.

V. Bartoletti, Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (Lipsiae: In aedibus B.G. Teubneri 1959).

I. A. F. Bruce, ‘The Democratic Revolution at Rhodes’, The Classical Quarterly 11 (1961), pp. 166-170.

I. A. F. Bruce, "The Political Terminology of the Oxyrhynchus Historian," Emerita 30 (1962), pp. 63-69.

V. Bartoletti, ‘In margine agli Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’, Atene e Roma, n.s. 10 (1965), pp. 162-166.

I. A. F. Bruce, An Historical Commentary on the Hellenica Oryrhynchia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1967).

R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri II (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann 1970), pp. 116-118, no. 42.

L. Canfora, ‘I frammenti storici fiorentini e le "Elleniche di Ossirinco"’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Neue Folge 115 (1972), pp. 14-19.

G. A. Lehmann, ‘Die Hellenika von Oxyrhynchos und Isokrates' "Philippos"’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 21 (1972), pp. 385-398.

G. Bonamente, Studio sulle Elleniche di Ossirinco: saggio sulla storiografia della prima metà del IV sec. a. C. (Perugia: Istituti di storia della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia 1973).

T. S. Pattie, E. G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus: An Exhibition [Organised by the British Library] Held in the British Museum, 30 July-27 October 1974 (London: British Museum for the British Library Board 1974), pp. 15-17, no. 12.

E. Lanzillotta, ‘La battaglia di Nozio’, Quarta miscellanea greca e romana. Studi pubblicati dall'Istituto italiano per la storia antica 25 (1975), pp. 135-161.

G. A. Lehmann, ‘Ein Historiker namens Kratippos’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 23 (1976), pp. 265-288.

L. Koenen, ‘Papyrology in the Federal Republic of Germany and fieldwork of the International Photographic Archive in Cairo’, Studia Papyrologica 15 (1976), pp. 39-79 (pp. 55-67, 69-76).

S. Accame, ‘Cratippo’, Sesta miscellanea greca e romana. Studi pubblicati dall'Istituto italiano per la storia antica 27 (1978), pp. 185-212.

G. A. Lehmann, ‘Spartas ἀρχή die Vorphase des Korinthischen Krieges in den Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. I’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 28 (1978), pp. 109-126.

G. A. Lehmann, ‘Spartas ἀρχή und die Vorphase des Korinthischen Krieges in den Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, II’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 30 (1978), pp. 73-93.

P. Salmon, Etude sur la Confédération béotienne (447/6-386). Son organisation et son administration (Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique 1978) (passim).

R. J. Buck, A History of Boeotia (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press 1979) (passim).

J. Buckler, ‘The Re-establishment of the "Boiotarchia" (358 BC)’, American Journal of Ancient History 4 (1979), pp. 50-64.

D. P. Orsi, ‘Hell. Oxy. VII, 2’, Quaderni di storia 9 (1979), pp. 279-282.

J. Buckler, The Theban Hegemony 371-362 B.C. (Cambridge, Mass.-Londres: Harvard University Press 1980).

E. Ruschenbusch, ‘Theopompea: ἀντιπτλιτεύεϲθαι’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 39 (1980), pp. 81-90.

G. A. Lehmann, ‘Theopompea’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 55 (1984), pp. 19-44.

C. J. Dull, ‘A Reassessment of the Boiotian Districts’, Actes IIIe Congrès Intern. sur la Béotie antique (Monographies en Archéologie et Histoire Classiques de l'Université Mc Gill 2) (Amsterdam: G. C. Gieben 1985), pp. 33-39.

P. McKechnie, S. J. Kern, Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (Warminster, Wiltshire, England: Aris & Phillips 1988).

M. Chambers, Hellenica oxyrhynchia: post Victorium Bartoletti (Stutgardiae: B. G. Teubner 1993).

G. Vottero, ‘Boeotica varia I’, C. Brixhe (ed.), Hellènika symmikta: histoire, linguistique, épigraphie II (Nancy: A.D.R.A.; Paris: De Boccard 1995), pp. 121-132.

P. Cartledge, ‘'Boeotian Swine F(or)ever? The Boeotian Superstate, 395 BCE', P. Flensted-Jensen et al. (edd.), Polis & Politics. Studies in Ancient Greek History presented to M.H. Hansen on his sixtieth birthday (Copenhagen: Museum tusculanum Press 2000), pp. 397-418.

S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella (edd.), Le "Elleniche di Ossirinco" a cinquanta anni dalla pubblicazione dei frammenti fiorentini, 1949-1999 (Atti del Convegno, Firenze, 22-23 novembre 1999) = Sileno 27 (2001).

G. B. D'Alessio, ‘Danni materiali e ricostruzione di rotoli papiracei: Le Elleniche di Ossirinco ("POxy" 842) e altri esempi’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 134 (2001), pp. 23-41.

J. M. Alonso-Nunez, ‘Die Hellenika von Oxyrhynchos’, H. Harrauer, R. Pintaudi (edd.), Gedenkschrift Ulrike Horak (P. Horak) I (Pap.Flor. XXXIV) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2004), pp. 275-278.

E. Rung, ‘Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian and Timocrates’, C. Tuplin (ed.), Xenophon and his World. Papers from a conference held in Liverpool in July 1999. Historia Einzelschriften 172 (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 2004), pp. 413-425.

C. Fornis, ‘La Guerra de Corinto (395-386 a. C.): una Aproximación a las Fuentes’, Polifemo 4 (2004), pp. 178-186.

R. Behrwald, Hellenika von Oxyrhynchos (Texte zur Forschung 86) (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2005).

L. Del Corso, ‘Lo 'stile severo' nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (pp. 84, 95, 97).

R. Lérida Lafarga, Comentario histórico de las Helénicas de Oxirrinco. Edición bilingüe con estado de la cuestión y bibliografía crítica (Zaragoza: Institución «Fernando el Católico» 2007).

C. Rubincam, ‘The Numeric Practice of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’, Mouseion. Series III 9 (2009), pp. 303-329.

G. Mariotta, ‘Frammenti papiracei riferibili alle Elleniche di Ossirinco: il problema delle copie nella prospettiva della paternità’, V. Costa (ed.), Tradizione e trasmissione degli storici greci frammentari II. Atti del Terzo Workshop Internazionale Roma, 24–26 Febbraio 2011 (Tivoli: Tored 2013), pp. 139-154.

A. Beresford, ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, Col. XIII, 1-7: Ismenias and the Athenian Democratic Exiles’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 188 (2014), pp. 13-27.

E. Occhipinti, ‘A Supplement for Col. II of P.Oxy. II 302 and a Few Stylistic Observations’ , Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 60 (2014), pp. 25-33.

M. Valente, I prodromi della guerra di Corinto nelle testimonianze delle Elleniche di Ossirinco e delle Elleniche di Senofonte. Fonti e studi di storia antica 17 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso 2014).

G. Mariotta, ‘Cronologia achemenide in Diodoro Siculo e l'«ottavo anno» delle Elleniche di Ossirinco’, Maia. Rivista quadrimestrale di letterature classiche 67 (2015), pp. 507-514.

G. Mariotta, ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia 10, 3 Chambers: fazioni politiche a Corinto’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 199 (2016), pp. 25-27.

E. Occhipinti, The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and Historiography: New Research Perspectives. Mnemosyne Supplements: Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature 395 (Leiden - Boston: E. G. Brill 2016).

E. Occhipinti, Elleniche di Ossirinco (I Frammenti degli Storici Greci, 14.), (Roma: Tored), 2022, pp. 23-9; 127-339.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Arsinoite nome (Fayum), Egypt
Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt