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Papyrus 2469

Record Id:

040-002105502

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000195

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143124575.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2469

Title:

Aeschines Socraticus, Alcibiades (P.Oxy. XIII 1608, P.Lond.Lit. 148, CPF I.1.1 8, TM 58965, LDAB 60, MP³ 19)

Scope & Content:

Fragments of Aeschines Socraticus’ dialogue ‘Alcibiades’, preserving the discussion between Socrates and Alicibiades on Themistocles and his relations with his parents, which led to disinheritance.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105502

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2469 : Aeschines Socraticus, Alcibiades (P.Oxy. XIII 1608, P.Lond.Lit. 148, CPF I.1.1 8, TM 58965, LDAB 60, MP3 19)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0738]/040-002105502

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

19 fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, numbered 1-19 inside the frame; fragment 3 was never received by the British Museum and is lost. Fragments 1, 7 and 10 are darker by patches. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Each fragment contains portions of a column, with the exception of fragments 4 and 7, which preserve parts of two columns. Each column presumably had 30 lines and was 60 mm wide. The intercolumn, preserved by fragments 4 and 7, measures 15 mm. The lower margin survives to 35 mm, the upper to 10 mm. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0150

End Date:

0250

Date Range:

2nd century-3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size: Fr. 1: 90 x 60 mm; Fr 2: 74 x 38 mm; Fr 3: lost; Fr. 4: 160 x 98 mm; Fr. 5: 61 x 40 mm; Fr. 6: 35 x 25 mm; Fr. 7: 78 x 100 mm; Fr. 8: 62 x 15 mm; Fr. 9: 35 x 28 mm; Fr. 10: 20 x 15 mm; Fr. 11: 21 x 18 mm; Fr. 12: 20 x 10 mm; Fr. 13: 22 x 29 mm; Fr. 14: 16 x 14 mm; Fr. 15: 22 x 16 mm; Fr. 16: 20 x 13 mm; Fr. 17: 12 x 8 mm; Fr. 18: 5 x 6 mm; Fr. 19: 6 x 5 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 330 mm.

Script: Severe style. Elegant sloping hand of good size. Iota adscript is usually written and diaeresis occurs over initial iota and upsilon; there are occasional corrections by a second hand, which added a breathing and accent in fragment 4 line 5. Elision is marked in fragment 4, line 21. Paragraphus, colon, high and low dots occur, alongside a marginal mark.

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:

CPF I.1.1 8(1)
P.Lond.Lit. 148
P.Oxy. XIII 1608

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 366.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1919), pp. 88-94, no. 1608.

A. Roscio, 'Nuovi dialoghi socratici', Rivista ď Italia 22 (1919), pp. 502-504.

W. Nestle, Die Sokratiker in Auswahl übersetzt und herausgegeben (Jena: E. Diederichs 1922), pp. 180-181.

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 7 (1924), pp. 114-160 (p. 155, no. 601).

S. Luria, ‘Väter und Söhne in den neuen literarischen Papyri’, Aegyptus 7 (1926), pp. 243-268 (pp. 248-249).

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 123, no. 148.

J. U. Powell, E. A. Barber, New chapters in the history of Greek literature, second series; some recent discoveries in Greek poetry and prose, chiefly of the fourth century B.C., and later times (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1929), pp. 103-104.

A. E. Taylor, Philosophical Studies (London: Macmillan 1934), pp. 10-19.

E. G. Berry, ‘The Oxyrhynchus Fragments of Aeschines of Sphettus’, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 81 (1950) pp. 1-8.

K. Gaiser, Protreptik und Paränese bei Platon: Untersuchungen zur Form des platonischen Dialogs (Stuttgart: W. Kolhammer 1959), p. 94.

A. Bauer, F. J. Frost, Themistokles: Literary, epigraphical and archaeological testimonia (Chicago: Argonaut 1967), pp. 107-108

G. C. Field, Plato and his contemporaries: a study in fourth-century life and thought (London: Methuen 1967), pp. 147-148.

A. J. Podlecki, The life of Themistocles: a critical survey of the literary and archaeological evidence (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1975), pp. 78-79.

F. J. Frost, Plutarch's Themistocles: a historical commentary (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1980), pp. 20-21, 69.

L. Piccirilli, ‘L’apokeryxis di Temistocle', in Studi in onore di Arnaldo Biscardi I (Milano: Cisalpino-Goliardica 1982), pp. 343-355.

L. Piccirilli, in C. Carena, M. Manfredini, L. Piccirilli, Le vite di Temistocle e di Camillo (Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla-A. Mondadori 1983), pp. 227-228.

A. Esposito, L. Rossetti, ‘Socrate, Alcibiade, Temistocle e i "Dodici dèi"’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), pp. 27-35.

K. Döring, ‘Der Sokrates des Aischines von Sphettos und die Frage nach dem historischen Sokrates’, Hermes 112 (1984), pp. 16-30 (p. 18).

L. Rossetti, ‘Aeschines Socraticus’, Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1989), pp. 120-134 no. 8.1.

M. Joyal, The Platonic Theages: An Introduction, Commentary, and Critical Edition (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 2000), p. 70.

W. Blösel, Themistokles bei Herodot: Spiegel Athens im fünften Jahrhundert: Studien zur Geschichte und historiographischen Konstruktion des griechischen Freiheitskampfes 480 v. Chr. (Stuttgart: Steiner 2004), p. 70 and passim.

D. C. Barker, ‘Codex, Roll, and Libraries in Oxyrhynchus’, Tyndale Bulletin 57 (2006), pp. 131-148 (pp. 136-137 and passim).

L. Del Corso, ‘Lo 'stile severo' nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 85).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aeschines, Socraticus, fl 330 BC

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt