OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

3.1 x 10.7 cm.

Lines:

14

Publication side:

Verso

Palaeographic description:

The handwriting closely resembles that of the Berlin Homer and may be referred to the 1st century A.D. The hand of our papyrus is a little more angular, and suggests a less skilled writer. The piece may be derived from a privately written copy or perhaps a school exercise.

State of preservation:

The fragment comes from the top of a column and is written on the verso of a papyrus, the recto of which contains only small traces of writing, just enough to identify the text as part of a money account.

Content

Date:

Ist century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

Homer

Title / Type of text:

Homeric papyrus (Iliad 2, 299-312)

Content:

Homer, Iliad 2, 299-312

Subjects:

Literature Epic poetry Homer Iliad

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Derballah (Behnasa) at Beni Masas, Jan. 27, 1929

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 66

Further Literature

Nodar A, Papiri omerici senza segni di lettura, in: I papiri omerici. Firenze 2012, p.218