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Papyrus 2442
- Record Id:
- 040-002105474
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000162
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124297.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2442
- Title:
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Calendar of Church Services (P.Oxy. XI 1357, P.Lond.Lit. 233, TM 65049, LDAB 6290)
- Scope & Content:
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A liturgical calendar concerning a period of approximately five months, from 23 Phaophi (20 October) to Phamenoth (February/March) of 535-536, listing the services to be celebrated by the bishop in various churches of Oxyrhynchus. The same scheme applies throughout and consists of the date, with day and month, the place, and the nature of the feast (Sundays, Repentance, saints’ feasts, Epiphany, etc.).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105474 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2442 : Calendar of Church Services (P.Oxy. XI 1357, P.Lond.Lit. 233, TM 65049, LDAB 6290) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1292]/040-002105474
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus sheet, containing portions of two columns written along the fibres. The sheet lacks most of its mid portion, and the gap, 60 mm high, affects 6 full lines of the first column and part of 6 lines of the second column. The lower margin measures 26 mm. Vertical folds are visible. The back is blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124297.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0535
- End Date:
- 0536
- Date Range:
- 535-536
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 296 x 364 mm.
Script: Large and somewhat irregual uncial hand of chancery type, sloping to the right.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 233
P.Oxy. XI 1357 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 365.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XI (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1915), pp. 19-43, no. 1357.
H. Delehaye, ‘Les martyrs d'Egypte’, Analecta Bollandiana 40 (1922), pp. 5-154, 299-336.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 197, no. 233.
L. Antonini, ‘Le chiese cristiane nell‘Egitto dal IV al IX secolo secondo i documenti dei papiri greci’, Aegyptus 20 (1940), pp. 129-208 (pp. 173-179).
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), p. 309, no. 961 descr.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period, A.D. 300-800 (London: Institute of Classical Studies 1987), p. 69, pl. 30a.
B. Joassart, X. Lequeux (eds.), L'ancienne hagiographie byzantine. Les sources, les premiers modèles, la formation des genres. Conférences prononcées au Collège de France en 1935 par Hyppolite Delehaye (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes 1991), pp. 6-10.
A. Papaconstantinou, ‘La liturgie stationnale à Oxyrhynchos dans la première moitié du 6e siècle. Réédition et commentaire du POxy XI 1357’, Revue des études byzantines 54 (1996), pp. 135-159.
R. Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (London-New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 295-296, 302.
L. H. Blumell, Lettered Christians: Christians, letters, and late antique Oxyrhynchus (Leiden: Brill 2012), p. 255 and passim.
L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment, Christian Oxyrhynchus: texts, documents, and sources (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press 2015), pp. 410-411 and passim.
A. D. Lee, Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (London-New York: Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group 2016), pp. 241-242.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)