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Papyrus 2040
- Record Id:
- 040-002105408
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000119
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123578.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2040
- Title:
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Julius Africanus’ Cesti (P.Oxy. III 412, P.Lond.Lit. 174, TM 61406, LDAB 2550, MP3 53), and Will of Hermogenes (P.Oxy. VI 907, TM 20370)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy. III 412, P.Lond.Lit. 174, TM 61406, LDAB 2550, MP3 53): Two columns numbered as 35 and 36 at the top, containing the ending of Book 18 of Sextus Julius Africanus’ Cesti, quoting passages of the Odyssey and Iliad and discussing the authenticity of some verses containing a spell. With end title.
Column 1, lines 1-10 = Odyssey XI 34-43.
Column 1, lines 11-13: Odyssey XI 48-50.
Column 1, lines 15-17: Iliad III 278-280.
Column 1, lines 22-36: Spell.
Column 1, line 39: Iliad XI 741.
Column 1, lines 43: Odyssey XI 51.
Column 2: Discussion on the authenticity of the verses containing the spell and end title.
Verso (P.Oxy. VI 907, TM 20370): Copy of the will of Hermogenes alias Eudaemon, office-holder and councillor at Oxyrhynchus, dated to 276. The property of Hermogenes is to be divided among his wife and his five children, three sons and two daughters. The inheritance includes real estates located in various villages with all appurtenances, a house in Oxyrhynchus and slaves. Dowries for the daughters are also arranged. Alongside their mother, a guardian is appointed for the three minor children until the age of majority for the boys and marriage for the girl; a nephew will be of further assistance if needed. A bequest to a friend follows. At the end is a statement containing the date when the will was opened.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105408 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2040 : Julius Africanus’ Cesti (P.Oxy. III 412, P.Lond.Lit. 174, TM 61406, LDAB 2550, MP3 53), and Will of Hermogenes (P.Oxy. VI 907,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0694]/040-002105408
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll, which was re-used for the text on the verso. Writing runs along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. Vertical folds are visible.
The recto preserves two columns of different length, the first, mutilated to the left, with 43 lines, the second, complete, with 28 lines. The columns were numbered on top as 35 and 36. The intercolumn measures 20-27 mm, the lower margin 43 mm, the upper 24 mm, and the right 25 mm.
The back has one column written upside down in relation to the text on the front, with long lines mutilated to the right. The upper, left and lower margins measure 20, 20, 60 mm respectively. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. VI.
The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0225
- End Date:
- 0276
- Date Range:
- 225-276
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 265 x 224 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 310 x 270 mm.
Script: Recto: Well-formed rounded uncial of medium size. Verso: Neat and regular upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2041-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.
- Former External References:
- Chrest.Mitt. 317
FIRA III 51
P.Lond.Lit. 174
P.Oxy. III 412
P.Oxy. VI 907
PGM 23 - Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), pp. 476-477.
Recto
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1903), pp. 36-41, no. 412, with pl. V.
E. M. Thompson, G. F. Warner, F. G. Kenyon, J. P. Gilson, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts First series, vol. 1 (London: Photographed and printed by H. Hart at the Oxford University Press 1903), pl. 104.
F. Blass, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschlu der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 257-299 (pp. 297-298, no. 250).
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 139, no. 174 descr.
K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae II (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1931, 1974), pp. 150-151, no. 23, p. 262, hymnen 24.
L. Robert, ‘La bibliothèque de Nysa de Carie’, Hellenica. Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques 1 (1940), pp. 144-148.
J.-R. Vieillefond, Jules l'Africain: Fragments des Cestes (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1932), pp. XXII-XXIII.
C. H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), pl. 23a.
J.-R. Vieillefond, Jules l’Africain: Fragments des Cestes (Firenze: Sansoni 1970), pp. 277-291.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), pp. 241-242, no. 674.
E. A. Judge, S. R. Pickering, ‘Papyrus Documentation of Church and Community in Egypt to the Mid-Fourth Century’, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 20 (1977), pp. 47-71 (p. 65).
F. C. R. Thee, Julius Africanus and the Early Christian View of Magic (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr 1984), pp. 468-492.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘An Owner of Literary Papyri’, Classical Philology 87 (1992), pp. 137-140.
H. D. Betz, The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992), pp. 262-264.
W. M. Brashear, ‘The Greek Magical Papyri: An Introduction and Survey, Annotated Bibliography (1928-94)’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 18.5 (1995), pp. 3380-3684 (p. 3547).
A. Kahane, ‘The Literary Charms of P.Oxy. 412’, Hyperboreus 3 (1997), pp. 319-335.
A. Kahane, ‘Blood for Ghosts? Homer, Ezra Pound, and Julius Africanus’, New Literary History 30 (1999), pp. 815-836.
E. J. Epp, ‘The Oxyrhynchus New Testament Papyri: "Not without Honor except in Their Hometown"?’, Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004), pp. 5-55 (p. 32).
L. W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2006), p. 226.
G. Staab, ‘Chronographie als Philosophie: Die Urwahrheit der mosaischen Überlieferung nach dem Begründungsmodell des Mittelplatonismus bei Julius Africanus (Edition und Kommentierung von Africanus Chron. fr.1)’, in M. Wallraff (ed.), Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter 2006), pp. 61-82.
J. Hammerstaedt, ‘Julius Africanus und seine Tätigkeiten im 18. Kestos (P.Oxy. 412 col. II)’, in M. Wallraff, L. Mecella (eds.), Die Kestoi des Julius Africanus und ihre Überlieferung (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter 2009), pp. 53-70.
L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment (eds.), Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources (Waco: Baylor University Press 2015), pp. 307-311, no. 84.
R. Otranto, ‘Giulio Africano nella biblioteca di Fozio (cap. 34): divisione in libri e lessico librario’, in M. Capasso (ed.), Sulle orme degli antichi. Scritti di filologia e di storia della tradizione classica offerti a Salvatore Cerasuolo (Lecce: Pensa Multimedia 2016), pp. 587-606 (pp. 596-599).
Verso:
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VI (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 247-253, no. 907.
L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. II Hälfte Chrestomathie (Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner 1912), pp. 366-368, no. 317.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 329.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten II.2 (Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers 1933), p. 97.
L. Cohen, ‘Heredis Institutio ex Re Certa and a New Will of the Roman Type’, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 68 (1937), pp. 343-356 (pp. 344, 347, and passim).
M. Norsa, La scrittura letteraria greca dal secolo IV A.C. all'VIII (Firenze: Ariani 1939), pl. 14a.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten III (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1958), p. 133.
M. Amelotti, Il testamento romano attraverso la prassi documentale I (le forme classiche di testamento) (Firenze: Le Monnier 1966), no. 61.
S. Riccobono et al. (eds.), Fontes iuris romani antejustiniani. Pars tertia: negotia, edidit Vincentius Arangio – Ruiz (Firenze: Barbèra 1968), pp. 153-159, no. 51.
D. Hobson, ‘Women as Property Owners in Roman Egypt’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 113 (1983), pp. 311-321 (p. 320).
L. Migliardi Zingale, I testamenti romani nei papiri e nelle tavolette d’Egitto. Silloge di documenti dal I al IV secolo d.C. (Torino: G. Giappichelli 1991), pp. 84-87, no. 24.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘An Owner of Literary Papyri’, Classical Philology 87 (1992), pp. 137-140.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 238.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 182.
D. P. Kehoe, Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1997), pp. 92, 127-129.
B. Rochette, ‘La langue des testaments dans l’Égypte du IIIe s. ap. J.-C.’, Revue Internationale des droits de l’Antiquité 47 (2000), pp. 449-461 (p. 455, and passim).
J. E. Grubbs, Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood (London-New York: Routledge 2002), pp. 249-250.
E. J. Epp, ‘The Oxyrhynchus New Testament Papyri: "Not without Honor except in Their Hometown"?’, Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004), pp. 5-55 (p. 32).
M. Nowak, Wills in the Roman Empire. A Documentary Approach. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement 23 (2015), pp. 377-379, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)