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Papyrus 1278
- Record Id:
- 040-003688100
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105870538.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464902.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1278
- Title:
- Astronomical Tables (P.Lond. III 1278, TM 63834, LDAB 5048, MP3 2014)
- Scope & Content:
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Astronomical tables (‘Handy Tables’).
Fragments 1+2 recto, 3 recto and verso and 6 verso: Four groups of tables, each relating to three zodiacal signs or one quadrant.
Fragments 1+2 verso: table with rising times and climates I and II.
Fragment 4: Tables for Saturn. Possibly from another codex.
Fragment 5 recto: Table of geographical locations arranged in six zones of longitude on the basis of the seven climates and time difference from Alexandria.
Fragment 5 verso and Fragment 6 recto: Table relating to geographical latitude.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003688100 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1278 : Astronomical Tables (P.Lond. III 1278, TM 63834, LDAB 5048, MP3 2014) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1793]/040-003688100
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Six fragments of varying size from four leaves of a papyrus codex; fragments 1 and 2 join. Fragment 4 may come from another papyrus codex; written on both sides, along and across the fibres, and preserving various columns with ruled lines in red forming tables. The fragments are housed in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464902.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; largest: 128 x 76 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 230 mm.
Script: Two hands, rounded hand in paler ink in fragment 4, while the other fragments are in a smaller and more compressed hand, somewhat rough and informal. Red ink used.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1200-1520 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 20 November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1278
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 444.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxxi, no. 1278 descr.
O. Neugebauer, T. C. Skeat, ‘The Astronomical Tables P. Lond. 1278. With a Note on the Palaeography of the Fragments’, Osiris 13 (1958), pp. 103-113.
O. Neugebauer, ‘Astronomical Papyri and Ostraca: Bibliographical Notes’, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106 (1962), pp. 383-391 (p. 386, no. 17).
D. Baccani, Oroscopi greci: documentazione papirologica (Messina: Sicania 1992), p. 35, no. 16.
A. Jones, Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society 1999), pp. 119, 304.
O. Defaux, ‘Le Papyrus Rylands 522/523 et les tables de Ptolémée’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 215 (2020), pp. 85-86.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)