OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

3.7 x 23.8 cm.

Lines:

41

Publication side:

Verso

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

Content

Date:

IInd/IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Literary fragment

Content:

Literary fragment, perhaps a piece of rhetoric or popular philosphy.

Subjects:

Literature Retoric Philosophy

Named people:

Alexander

Named places:

Europa Hellas Makedonia

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased 1923 through British Museum, with M. Nahman as the dealer. Cf. the reports and the inventory list by H. I. Bell

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 166

Further Literature

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