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Papyrus 2445

Record Id:

040-002105477

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000165

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2445

Title:

Thucydides, Historiae VII (P.Oxy. XI 1376, P.Lond.Lit. 107, TM 62887, LDAB 4078, MP³1531)

Scope & Content:

Fragmentary columns from a roll containing book 7 of Thucydides’ Historiae. Papyrus 2445(1)

Column I: Historiae VII 54-56.2

Column II: Historiae VII 56.2-57.2

Column III: Historiae VII 57.2-6

Column IV: Historiae VII 57.6-9

Column V: Historiae VII 57.11-58.1

Column VI: Historiae VII 58.4

Column VII: Historiae VII 59.3-60.4

Column VIII: Historiae VII 60.4-62.1

Papyrus 2445(2)

Column IX: Historiae VII 62.2-63.1

Column X: Historiae VII 63.3-64.1

Column XI: Historiae VII 64.2-66.2

Column XII: Historiae VII 66.2-67.2

Column XIII: Historiae VII 67.2-68.2

Columns XIV-XIX: lost

Column XX: Historiae VII 72.1-73.1

Column XXI: Historiae VII 73.1-3

Papyrus 2445(3)

Column XXII-XXVII: lost.

Column XXVIII: Historiae VII 78.5-6

Column XXIX: Historiae VII 79.5-6

Column XXX: Historiae VII 80.2-3, 80.5-6

Column XXXI: Historiae VII 81.1-4

Column XXXII: Historiae VII 81.5-82.3

Unplaced fragments numbered 1-45 and 5 unnumbered.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105477

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2445 : Thucydides, Historiae VII (P.Oxy. XI 1376, P.Lond.Lit. 107, TM 62887, LDAB 4078, MP3 1531)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1293]/040-002105477

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll. They were originally 200, and more than three quarters of them have been identified: a few still remain unplaced.

Portions of 20 columns, not all of which are consecutive, are preserved; the columns were tall, ranging from 47 to 53 lines. The average width of the column is 60 mm; the intercolumn is 21 mm on average. The average number of letters per line is 19.

Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Mounted on cardboard and housed in three glass cases named Papyrus 2445(1), 2445(2), and 2445(3); in Papyrus 2445(3) are housed the unplaced fragments.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0150

End Date:

0250

Date Range:

mid 2nd century-mid 3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; height of the roll: 320-340 mm. Housed in three glass cases named Papyrus 2445(1), measuring x mm, Papyrus 2445(2), measuring x mm, and Papyrus 2445(3), all measuring 370 x 610 mm.

Script: Medium-sized hand belonging to the Severe Style, with letters sloping to the right. Punctuation is by high stops, paragraphoi and blank space; diaeresis occurs occasionally.

Custodial History:

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. 107
P.Oxy. XI 1376

Publications:

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. 155-185, no. 1376.

K.F.W. Schmidt, Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 1918, pp. 81-126 (pp. 103-105).

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 83-84, no. 107.

P. Focardi, ‘Il testo di Tucidide nei mss. Vatic. Gr. 126 e Paris. Gr. 1734 in rapporto anche ai papiri Tucididei’, Aegyptus 35 (1955), pp. 43-62 (pp. 57-61).

B. Hemmerdinger, Essai sur l'histoire du texte de Thucydide (Paris: Les Belles lettres 1955), pp. 27, 47.

W. E. H. Cockle, Euripides, Hypsipyle. Text and Annotation based on a Re-examination of the Papyri (Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1987), p. 22 n. 14.

O. Montevecchi, La papirologia (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1988), p. 377.

G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo (Firenze: Case Editrice le lettre 1988), pp. 321-323.

L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 84, no. 22).

W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004) 42, 48, 50 and passim.

K. McNamee, ‘Finding Libraries’, in J. Frösén, T. Purola, E. Salmenkivi (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology, Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004 (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica 2007), pp. 693-707 (p. 695).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Thucydides, historian of the Peloponnesian War, c 460-c 400 BC

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the ‘Hypsipyle library’ (TM Arch ID 426).