OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

7.5 x 13.3 cm.

Lines:

24

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The hand is formal, but lacking a rigid formality. The letters are of medium module, markedly sloping to the right. They have been penned in quick, confident strokes by a skilled scribe using a medium-thick pen and black ink. The script is an elegant sample of the sloping variant of the ""formal mixed"" (""severe"") style. The neatness of the handwriting and other formal details suggest that the fragment originally belonged to a book-roll penned by a professional scribe.

State of preservation:

A fragment of dark brown papyrus. The text is written along the fibres. Scanty traces of lines 1 and 24 have been preserved as well as parts of lines 2 and 14-23, with the exception of their beginnings. What remains of lines 3-13 are line beginnings and part of the left hand margin (1.7 at its widest), along which a kollesis is visible. A vertical break has incurred minor damage along the middle of lines 8-20.

Content

Date:

IInd/IIIrd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

Herodotus

Title / Type of text:

Literary; Herodotus 9. 74-75

Content:

Herodotus 9. 74-75

Subjects:

Literature History Herodotus

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, Sept. 1934

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Maravela-Solbakk A, SO 79, 2004, 102-108, picture: p. 105
• Mironczuk A, JJP 50, 2010, 153-160, picture: p. 155

Further Literature

West SR,""The papyri of Herodot"", in: Culture in pieces, Oxford 2011, p. 71