OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

2.3 x 8.6 cm.

Lines:

12

Publication side:

Verso

Palaeographic description:

Written in a large, rather clumsy hand, on the verso.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus fragment. The text is written on the verso. The recto is apparently mended by a strip of papyrus, the verso of which is turned outwards; traces of writing.

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

Xenophon

Title / Type of text:

Xenophon, Apologia Socratis 25

Content:

Xenophon, Apologia Socratis 25

Subjects:

Literature Prose Xenophon Apologia Socratis

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased April 5 1928 by Leiv Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, P.Oslo III, 1936, 170
• Musurillo H, Acta Alexandrinorum, 1954, XVII

Further Literature

TrGF vol. 2 F674