OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

3.8 x 13.7 cm.

Lines:

10

Publication side:

Verso, the Recto is published as P.Oslo III 195

Palaeographic description:

Written in a good-sized hand (a little sloping to the left) of the third or fourth century; the letters m and n are rather broad, and m is very curved. The accents were probably placed on every word and seem to owe their origin to the original scribe.

State of preservation:

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Content

Date:

IIIrd/IVth century A.D.

Origin:

Probably the Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

Homer

Title / Type of text:

Homeric papyrus (Odyssey 4, 483-492)

Content:

Homer, Odyssey 4, 483-492.

Subjects:

Literature Epic poetry Homer Odyssey

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Eitrem in Egypt 1920

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 8

Further Literature

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