OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

31.5 x 15 cm.

Lines:

Col I: 16Col.II: 17Col.III: 20Col.IV: 6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is published as P.Oslo II 13

Palaeographic description:

–

State of preservation:

–

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:

Vocabulary to Homer, Iliad I 5-24

Content:

Vocabulary, or - better still - paraphrase of Homer, adorned here and there with a touch of some 'scholia minora'. It belongs to a well-known species of school literature.

Subjects:

Literature Epic poetry Vocabulary Homer Iliad

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Cairo or Fayûm, Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Samson Eitrem

Acquisition year:

1920

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo II, 1931, 12
• Fontanella, V., ZPE 121, 2021, pp. 37-52

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 60545 / LDAB 1669

Discussions

• Körte A, APF 10 (1932) p. 229-230.
• Marrou, H.-I. (1965). Histoire de l'éducation dans l'Antiquité (p. 252).
• Cribiore, R. (1996). Writing, teachers, and students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (p. 255, pl. XLIX).
• Fontanella, V. (2021). Neuedition von P.Oslo II 12: ὀνομαστικὸν Ὁμήρου?. ZPE, 121, pp. 37-52.
• Fontanella, V. (2023). Die Iliasglossare auf Papyrus. Untersuchungen zu einer Textkategorie. Brill-Schöningh.