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Papyrus 2957
- Record Id:
- 040-003725974
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113294882.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471324.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2957
- Title:
- Logical Exercise (P.Hib. II 184, TM 65734, LDAB 6988)
- Scope & Content:
- Portions of a logical exercise, possibly based on Platonic logic, with a series of syllogisms having premises and conclusions; the first editor (E. G. Turner) considered it a school exercise written by a student working through a logical handbook.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725974 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2957 : Logical Exercise (P.Hib. II 184, TM 65734, LDAB 6988) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2111]/040-003725974
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two larger fragments with detached scraps from a papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage; dark and stained; written on one side along the fibres. Portions of three narrow columns of varying length survive; the second is 55 mm wide, and has an average of 16 letters to the line. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471324.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 190 x 182 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 385 x 305 mm.
Script: Medium-sized square bookhand, regular and clear; square epigraphic epsilon and epigraphic omega, sometimes drawn more cursively; with paragraphus, horizontal dash and coronis.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy 126). Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.
- Former External References:
- P.Hib. II 184
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 44-9, no. 184, with pl. ii.
Edoardo Crisci, ‘I più antichi libri greci: note bibliologiche e paleografiche su rotili papiracei del IV-III secolo a.C.’, Scrittura e civiltà 23 (1999), 29-62 (pp. 47-8, with pl. 8b).
Edoardo Crisci, ‘Per uno studio paleografico e bibliologico dei più antichi libri greci (IV-III secolo a.C.)’, in Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I, ed. by Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi, Giovanna Menci, (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, 2001), pp. 287-300 (pp. 296-7).
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 37, 40, 52).
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 37.
Walter Cavini, Ermelinda V. Di Lascio, Maria S. Funghi, ‘Testi dei papiri di logica adespoti’, in Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di Studi. VI = Studi e testi per il Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. 16 (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2011), pp. 211-26 (pp 211-15).
David Sedley, ‘P. Hibeh 184: Platonist Logic in the Third Century BC?’, in Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di Studi. 6, Studi e testi per il Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. 16 (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 2011), 227-39.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)