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Papyrus 1
- Record Id:
- 040-003725111
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112284295.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469694.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1
- Title:
- Acta Pauli et Antonini (P.Lond.Lit. 118, P.Lond. I 1, CPJ II 158a, TM 58927, LDAB 22)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment of an opistograph roll, further portions of which are preserved in P.Paris 68, containing the Acta Pauli et Antonini, one of the Acta Alexandrinorum (corpus of sub-literary papyri concerned with the hearings of prominent Greek Alexandrians before the Roman emperors, often ending in the torture or death of the delegates). An embassy of Alexandrian Greeks, represented by Paulus, Theon and Antoninus, and a Jewish delegation (the names of the envoys are not given) are being questioned by Hadrian on the events that led to violence between the Greeks and the Jews. The Alexandrian envoys complain about the severity of the punishments against the Alexandrian Greeks and their slaves. Hadrian’s verdict is that Antoninus be tortured.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725111 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1 : Acta Pauli et Antonini (P.Lond.Lit. 118, P.Lond. I 1, CPJ II 158a, TM 58927, LDAB 22) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2073]/040-003725111
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a medium-brown roll, another portion of which is preserved in a papyrus now at the Louvre in Paris, inventoried as 2375bis and published as P.Paris 68; opistograph, with writing continuing on the back. On the front, there are portions of fifteen lines from the top of a column, written along the fibres; the upper margin survives. On the back, there remain parts of seventeen lines, running across the fibres. The papyrus in Paris preserves six additional columns, three on either side. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469694.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0120
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 120-199
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 110 x 55 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 140 x 80 mm.
Script: Semi-cursive hand of medium size.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased at Salt’s sale in 1821.
- Former External References:
- CPJ II 158a
P.Forshall xliii
P.Lond. I 1
P.Lond.Lit. 118 - Publications:
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Josiah Forshall, Description of the Greek Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1839), pp. 69-70, no. 43.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, vol. I (London: Trustees of the British Musuem, 1893), pp. 229-30, no. 1, with pl. 146.
Ulrich Wilcken, Zum alexandrinischen Antisemitismus, Abhandlungen der Philologisch historischen Klasse der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 27 (Leipzig: Teubner 1909), pp. 807-21.
A. von Premerstein, ‘Alexandrinische und jüdische Gesandte vor Kaiser Hadrian’, Hermes 57 (1922), 266-316 (pp. 268-302).
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 91-2, no. 118.
Victor A. Tcherikover, Alexander Fuks, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, II (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard Univeristy Press, 1960), no. 158a.
Alexander Fuks, ‘Select Aspects of the Jewish Revolt in A.D. 115–117’, The Journal of Roman Studies 51 (1961), 98-104 (p. 103).
Herbert A. Musurillo, Acta Alexandrinorum: de mortibus Alexandriae nobilium fragmenta papyracea graeca (Lipsiae: Teubner, 1961), pp. 49-58, no. 9a, and pp. 179-94.
Marina Pucci, ‘C.P.J. II 158, 435 e la rivolta ebraica al tempo di Traiano’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 51 (1983), 95-103.
Jacques Schwartz, ‘Quelques réflexions à propos des Acta Alexandrinorum’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 57 (1984), 130-2.
Andrew Harker, Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt: The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 190-2.
Raffaele Luiselli, ‘The Circulation and Transmission of Greek Adespota in Roman Egypt’ in Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture, Volume 2: Case Studies, ed. by Giulio Colesanti, Laura Lulli, (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 289-310 (pp. 294-5).
Chris Rodriguez, ‘Antoninos, a Roman Citizen Ambassador from Alexandria Who Betrayed the Roman Empire’, Dialogues d’histoire ancienne 17 (2017), 799-820.
Natalia Vega Navarrete, Die Acta Alexandrinorum im Lichte neuerer und neuester Papyrusfunde (Pap. Colon. 40) (Leiden: E. J. Brill 2017), pp. 205-34, no. 3.7.1 (with further bibliography).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)