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Papyrus 2470

Record Id:

040-002105503

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000196

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2470

Title:

Ephorus, Historiae XII or XI (P.Oxy. XIII 1610, P.Lond.Lit. 109, TM 59723, LDAB 827, MP³ 357)

Scope & Content:

Fragments of Book XII or XI of Ephorus’ Historiae on the Pentencontaetia.

Fragments 1-5: On Themistocles.

Fragments 6-14, 53: On Cimon’s operations by sea.

Fragments 15-16: On Persian matters.

Fragment 17: Geographical description.

Fragments 18, 26, 31, 38 and 41: On Themistocles?

Fragments 28 and 48: On Cimon?

Fragment 35: Mention of Pelasgians.

Fragment 39: Euboean war?

Fragment 43: Revolt of Helots.

Other fragments: uncertain as too fragmentary.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105503

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2470 : Ephorus, Historiae XII or XI (P.Oxy. XIII 1610, P.Lond.Lit. 109, TM 59723, LDAB 827, MP3 357)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1295]/040-002105503

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

62 fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with writing on one side along the fibres. The fragments generally come from the mid portion of columns, with the exception of fragment 35, which preserves the upper portion of a column. The height of the column is unknown; each line contained an average of with 14-15 letters, for a column width of approximately 50 mm. The intercolumn measures 15-20 mm and the upper margin survives to 17 mm (see fragment 35).

The fragments are mounted on cardboard in three frames, named Papyrus 2470(1), Papyrus 2470(2), and Papyrus 2470(3).

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0175

End Date:

0225

Date Range:

late 2nd century-early 3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size. Largest (frr. 12+13): 152 x 91 mm. Housed in three glass cases named Papyrus 2470(1), Papyrus 2470(2), and Papyrus 2470(3), all measuring 255 x 305 mm.

Script: Severe style. Punctuation is by high stops and spacing. Paragraphus is used; iota adscript is generally noted.

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. 109
P.Oxy. XIII 1610

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. 98-127, no. 1610.

E. M. Walker, ‘The Newly Discovered Fragments of Ephorus and their Bearing on the Authorship of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and on the Style of Ephorus’, The Rice Institute Pamphlet 6 (1919), pp. 240-261.

F. Bilabel, Die kleineren Historikerfragmente auf Papyrus (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber 1922), pp. 7-11, no. 3.

F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen historiker (F GR HIST) (Berlin: Weidmann 1926), 70 F 191.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 84-85, no. 109.

G. L. Barber, The Historian Ephorus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1935).

A. W. Gomme, A Historical Commentary on Thucydides (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1945), I, p. 286, n. 2.

T. S. Brown, ‘Timaeus and Diodorus' Eleventh Book’, The American Journal of Philology 73 (1952), p. 337-355 (p. 343).

J. Barns, ‘Cimon and the First Athenian Expedition to Cyprus’, Historia 2 (1953/54), pp. 163-176 (pp. 165, 168).

Th. W. Africa, ‘Ephorus and Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1610’, The American Journal of Philology 83 (1962), pp. 86-89.

R. Drews, ‘Ephorus and History Written KATA GENOS’, The American Journal of Philology 84 (1963), pp. 244-255.

M. Gigante, Frammenti sulla pentecontaetia e altri testi storici da papiri (Napoli: Libreria scientifica editrice 1970).

C. Reid Rubincam, ‘A Note on Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1610’, Phoenix 30 (1976), pp. 357-366.

R. Milns, ‘Some Critical Observations on Ephorus: Fragments 119, 111, and Testimony 23 (Jacoby)’, in B. Marshall, Vindex Humanitatis: Essays in Honor of John Huntly Bishop (Armidale, New South Wales: University of New England 1980), pp. 46-57 (pp. 56-57).

G. H. Lehman, ‘Der "Lamische Krieg" und die "Freiheit der Hellenen": Überlegungen zur Hieronymianischen Tradition’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 73 (1988), pp. 121-149 (p. 122).

J. Lens Tuero, ‘The Ephorus Papyrus’, in J. A. Lopez Ferez (ed.), Estudios actuales sobre textos griegos (II Jornadas internacionales, UNED, 23-28 octubre 1989) (Madrid: UNED 1991), pp. 289-309.

K. S. Sacks, Diodorus Siculus and the First Century (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1990), pp. 26, 43, and passim.

E. Badian, From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1993), pp. 66-67.

J. M. Wickersham, Hegemony and Greek Historians (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1994), pp. 120-122.

A. Loftus, ‘A New Fragment of the Theramenes Papyrus (P. Mich. 5796b)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000), pp. 11-20 (p. 18).

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

R. Lerida Lafarga, Comentario Histórico de las Helénicas de Oxirrinco (Zaragoza: Institución Fernardo el Católico 2007), pp. 95-99.

P. J. Stylianou, A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2007), p. 132, and passim.

W. A. Johnson, H. N. Parker, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2009), p. 263, and passim.

J. S. Kloppenborg, Synoptic Problems: Collected Essays (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014), pp. 101-105.

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: E. J. Brill 2016), pp. 5, 58, and passim.

J. Stronk, Semiramis' Legacy: The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2017), passim.

I. Matijasić, Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography: Imitation, Classicism, and Literary Criticism (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2018), p. 213.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ephorus

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt