OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

31.5 x 15 cm.

Lines:

Col I: 11; Col.II: 20; Col.III: 19; Col.IV: 22; Col.V: 31

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is published as P.Oslo II 12

Palaeographic description:

The text is written in a heavy and irregular book hand of careless appearance. The writing is difficult to read and not easy to date. The original editors maintained that a second hand began at col.IV l.17, whereas Wouters thinks it is the same scribe throughout - he has just had his pen sharpened in col. IV l.17.

State of preservation:

On the verso of the papyrus we find the remains of five columns. Of col. I only a few etters are still visible. Col.II and V are also badly damaged. Only cl.III and IV are in a decent state. The upper (1 cm.) and lower (2 cm.) margins have been partially preserved. The intercolumnar margins measure 1 to 1.5 cm.

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Probably Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Fragment of grammar

Content:

An extensive fragment of a grammatical manual.

Subjects:

Literature Grammar

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Theadelphia, Themistou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 13, picture: Pl. II
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Schmidt KFW, Gött.gel.Anz.94 (1932) p.279-280Di Benedetto V, Dionisio Trace I, p.189-190 and II p.88-99Morelli G, 'Dionisio Trace in un papiro grammaticale del II secolo' in: Ricerche sulla tradizione grammaticale latina. Roma 1970, p. 112-130
• Wouters A, The grammatical papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, 1979, 9
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Janko R, Philodemus On poems (2000), p.184-185

Further Literature

Discussions

• Marrou, H.-I. (1965). Histoire de l'éducation dans l'Antiquité (p. 257 n. 57).
• Cribiore, R. (1996). Writing, teachers, and students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (p. 264).
• Janko R, Philodemus On poems (2000), p. 299