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Papyrus 2823
- Record Id:
- 040-002105687
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002d7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471258.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2823
- Title:
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Three orations of Dio Chrysostomus (TM 59679), and Menander, Georgus (TM 61561)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments from different texts:
Fragments 1-9 (TM 59679, LDAB 781): Fragments from a papyrus codex containing three works by Dio Chrysostomus, including his two discourses ‘On slavery and freedom’ (Orations XIV and XV), and an otherwise unknown work.
Fragment 1: Or. XV.28-32; Or. XIV.1-4;
Fragment 2: Or. XIV.6-9, 11-14;
Fragment 3-9: Unknown oration.
Papyrus 2823(A) (TM 61561, LDAB 2710): Fragments from a papyrus codex containing Menander’s Georgus 129-67, with glosses inserted in a minute hand.
Papyrus 2823(B): Undetermined fragments, with traces of writing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105687 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2823 : Three orations of Dio Chrysostomus (TM 59679), and Menander, Georgus (TM 61561) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1228]/040-002105687
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of varying size from different papyrus codices, housed in one glass frame.
Fragments 1-9: Nine fragments of varying size from a dark-brown papyrus codex, possibly from at least five different leaves; written on both sides. The largest fragment contains one column written on either side and the lower margin.
Papyrus 2823(A): Four fragments from a dark-brown papyrus codex, written on both sides.
Papyrus 2823(B): Five small fragments from a papyrus, two of which bear writing on both sides, the others on one side only; one is blank.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471258.0x000001 (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: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 2823: Fragments of varying size: 205 x 110 mm; reconstructed size of the leaf: 300 x 180 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 265 x 460 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, sloping hand; elision is often marked, breathings and occasional accents occur. A: Rough, upright uncial of medium-size, with some letterforms compressed laterally; elision marks and accents occasionally provided; glosses inserted in minute hand. B: Too little remains.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2784-2849. Joint purchase arranged with the University of Michigan, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957) from various dealers in November and December 1926. Papyri 2823-2849 were purchased from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948).
- Publications:
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Herbert J. M. Milne, ‘Papyri of Dio Chrysostom and Menander’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 16 (1930), 187-93 (pp. 187-92).
Carmelo U. Crimi, ‘Sull'orazione Agli Alessandrini di Dione. Chrisostomo’, Siculorum Gymnasium, NS 26 (1973), 356-62.
Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), no. 59, passim.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. 2 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1992), pp. 34-85, Dio 1-3.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4, Tavole, (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2008), plates 66-67.
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Herbert J. M. Milne, ‘Papyri of Dio Chrysostom and Menander’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 16 (1930), 187-93 (pp. 192-93).
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 117.
Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), no. 232, passim.
Kathleen McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists, 2007), p. 300, no. 1302.5.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 37.
Alain Blanchard, Ménandre. Tome III. Le laboureur - La double tromperie - Le poignard - L’eunuque - L’inspirée - Thrasyléon - Le Carthaginois - Les femmes qui boivent la ciguë - La Leucadienne -Le haï - La Périnthienne (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016), pp. 20-22, no. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)