OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

9.7 x 6.1 cm.

Lines:

Col.I: 4Col.II: 8

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The handwriting is very large and the style not unlike that of Codex Sinaiticus, etc.

State of preservation:

Dark brown papyrus. The right margin measures 1.5 cm.

Content

Date:

IVth century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Fragment of a treatise concerning rhetorics

Content:

–

Subjects:

Literature Rhetoric

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by L. Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa, April 5, 1928

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 167

Further Literature

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