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Papyrus 2471
- Record Id:
- 040-002105504
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000197
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143124599.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2471
- Title:
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Thucydides, Collected Speeches from Historiae II (P.Oxy. XIII 1621, P.Lond.Lit. 106, TM 62919, LDAB 4111, MP3 1513)
- Scope & Content:
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Collected speeches from Thucydides, Historiae II, on a leaf of a parchment codex.
Recto: Part of Archidamus’ speech at the beginning of the war = II.11.5- II.11.8
Verso: Lines 1-12: Continuation of Archidamus’s speech = II.11.9
Line 13-End: Beginning of Pericles’ funeral oration = II.35.1.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105504 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2471 : Thucydides, Collected Speeches from Historiae II (P.Oxy. XIII 1621, P.Lond.Lit. 106, TM 62919, LDAB 4111, MP3 1513) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0677]/040-002105504
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragmentary leaf of a parchment codex, damaged at the sides and top and with detached scraps. Writing is on both sides, and each side contains one column of 21 lines. Lines have 20 to 25 letters. Traces of the original pagination remain. Housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143124599.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 143 x 114 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 165 mm.
Script: Biblical Majuscule. A cursive hand is responsible for some corrections (see recto, line 18, and verso, line 5). Iota adscript is generally written, sometimes supplied by the second hand, which also added part of the high, mid and low stops present in the text and a breathing (verso, line 11). Diaeresis, elision marks and a stroke for punctuation (recto, line 2) were written by the original scribe.
- 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. 106
P.Oxy. XIII 1621 - 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. 366.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1919), pp. 194-195, no. 1621.
B. P. Grenfell, ‘The Value of Papyri for the Textual Criticism of Extant Greek Authors’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 39 (1919), pp. 16-36 (p. 26).
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 83, no. 106.
G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (Firenze: Le Monnier 1967), pp. 58-59, 64, with pl. 40.
E. G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), pp. 29, 32, and passim.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period, A.D. 300-800 (London: Institute of Classical Studies 1987), p. 34, pl. 13b.
O. Bouquiaux, P. Mertens, ‘Les papyrus de Thucydide’, Chronique d'Egypte 66 (1991), pp. 198-210 (p. 202).
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 100.
L. M. Cavero, Poems in context: Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD (Berlin-New York: W.de Gruyter 2008), p. 233.
G. Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 101-148 (p. 129).
J. Iglesias-Zoido, ‘Thucydides in the School Rhetoric of the Imperial Period’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 52 (2012), 393-420 (pp. 398-399).
I. Matijasić, Shaping the Canons of Ancient Greek Historiography: Imitation, Classicism, and Literary Criticism (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2018), p. 210.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)