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Papyrus 2444
- Record Id:
- 040-002105476
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000164
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124309.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2444
- Title:
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On the History of Sicyon (P.Oxy. XI 1365, P.Lond.Lit. 111, TM 59307, LDAB 404, MP3 2181)
- Scope & Content:
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Two columns from a work ‘On the History of Sicyon’, attributed to various authors (Aristotle, Ephorus or Menaechmus), concerning the origin and rise of Orthagoras, tyrant of Sicyon in the seventh century BC. The text refers to his childhood and education, his role as a patrol and then polemarch, and his successes in war.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105476 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2444 : On the History of Sicyon (P.Oxy. XI 1365, P.Lond.Lit. 111, TM 59307, LDAB 404, MP3 2181) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0760]/040-002105476
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus fragment, broken off at the sides and damaged at the top and bottom. The papyrus has darker spots, and the surface is damaged and abraded throughout. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of two columns are preserved, each of 35 lines; each line contained between 13 and 18 letters. The upper and lower margins survive to 60 mm and 72 mm respectively. The intercolumnar space measures 20-23 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124309.0x000001 (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: 294 x 108 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 355 x 160 mm.
Script: Severe Style (Formal Mixed). Upright hand with contrast between narrow and broad letters. High and middle stops, paragraphoi and diaeresis occur. An insertion in column 2, line 21, was presumably added by a corrector, who may be responsible of accents and the breathing of column 1, line 15.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 111
P.Oxy. XI 1365 - 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. 104-111, no. 1365.
V. Costanzi, ‘La Tirannide degli Ortagoridi alla luce di un nuovo documento’, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 44 (1916), pp. 369-378.
M. Lenchantin de Gubernatis, ‘I nuovi frammenti di Eforo e lo storico di Sicione’, Bolletino di Filologia Classica 25 (1918-1919), pp. 127-130.
H. I. Bell, ‘Bibliography: Graeco-Roman Egypt A. Papyri (1915-1919)’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 6 (1920), pp. 119-146 (p. 126).
H. I. Bell, ‘Bibliography: Graeco-Roman Egypt A. Papyri (1919-1920)’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 7 (1921), pp. 87-104 (p. 90).
F. Bilabel, Die kleineren Historikerfragmente auf Papyrus (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber 1922), pp. 4-7, no. 2.
A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 7 (1924), pp. 225-258 (pp. 230-231, no. 622).
F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (F GR HIST) (Berlin: Weidmann 1926), 105 F2, pp. 504-505.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 85-86, no. 111.
F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (F GR HIST) (Leiden: Brill 1950), no. 551, F1b.
R. S. Bagnall, ‘An Owner of Literary Papyri’, Classical Philology 87 (1992), pp. 137-140.
G. E. Pesely, 'How Many Copies of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Have Been Found?', The Ancient History Bulletin 8 (1994), pp. 38-44.
L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 84, no. 21).
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.
E. Occhipinti, The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and historiography: new research perspectives (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2016), pp. 1, 5 and passim.
Corpus dei papyri storici greci e latini. Parte A: Storici greci. 1.3.1 (Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2018), Ephorus 2F.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)