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Papyrus 2852
- Record Id:
- 040-002105692
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002db
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468473.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2852
- Title:
- Lysias, On the murder of Eratosthenes and For Eryximachus (JEA 15 (1929), pp. 75-77, TM 61453, LDAB 2598, MP3 1290)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a leaf from a papyrus codex, joining P.Ryl. III 489; it contains portions of two speeches by Lysias.
Recto, column 1: ‘On the murder of Eratosthenes’ 45-49; P.Ryl. III 489 preserves most of this column.
Column 2: Titles, ‘on the murder of Eratosthenes’, and ‘for Eryximachus, who had remained in the city’. Second speech.
Verso: Continuation of the speech ‘For Eryximachus’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105692 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2852 : Lysias, On the murder of Eratosthenes and For Eryximachus (JEA 15 (1929), pp. 75-77, TM 61453, LDAB 2598, MP3 1290) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0558]/040-002105692
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a leaf from a papyrus codex, with two columns per page, imperfect on all sides and with small insect holes; a joining fragment is held in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, published as P.Ryl. III 489; written on both sides. The right margin survives to 50 mm; the column’s width is 70 mm, with 17-19 letters per line. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
Recto: Portions of two columns, written along the lines; of column 1 only few line-ends survive; column 2 is better preserved; with right margin (50 mm) and intercolumn (c. 15 mm).
Verso: 1 column, across the fibres, broken at the top and bottom.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468473.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 3rd century-4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 175 x 185 mm, housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 240 mm.
Script: Majuscule, upright and flowing, with round forms and loops; punctuation by paragraphus and sometimes by spaces; diaeresis occurs; N rendered as raised horizontal stroke.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased with Papyrus 2853 in November 1928 as part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Oslo.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1926-1930 (London: British Museum 1959), p. 264.
H. J. M. Milne, ‘A New Speech of Lysias’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 15 (1929), pp. 71-75.
A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 10 (1932), pp. 217-218.
Catalogue of the Greek papyri in the John Rylands library, Manchester. Vol. III (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1938), pp. 103-109, no. 489, with pl. 10.
E. G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), pp. 16, 36, 112.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period, A.D. 300-800 (London: Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 22, 25, with pl. 8b.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), p. 186.
Ph. W. Comfort, Encountering the manuscripts: an introduction to New Testament paleography & textual criticism (Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2005), p. 197.
Th. Gärtner, ‘Lys. or. 1, 48 im P. Ryl. 489’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 171 (2009), pp. 17-18.
G. Indelli, ‘I papiri di Lisia: alcune osservazioni’, Papyrologica Lupiensia 9 (2000), pp. 195-204 (pp. 198-201).
S. C. Todd, Lysias (Austin: University of Texas Press 2000), pp. 379-380.
M. Cocurullo, ‘Il contributo dei papiri alla conoscenza di Lisia’, in Papyrologica Lupiensia 10 (2001), pp. 113-170 (pp. 126-137).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)