OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

4.3 x 5.1 cm.

Lines:

6

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

Rather uneven, unskilled hand, but very readable.

State of preservation:

Medium dark brown papyrus fragment. Top margin 1 1/2 to 2 cm., torn on all other sides.

Content

Date:

IIIrd/IVth century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

–

Title / Type of text:

Analecta of Diogenes

Content:

Apophthegms (chreiai) of Diogenes

Subjects:

Maximes Diogenes

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 III, 1936, 177
• Lenaerts J, Chr.d'Eg. 49, 1974, 121-123

Further Literature

Gallo I, Frammenti biografici da papiri II (Rome, 1980) 355-367 & 453 (n° III 6);Bastianini G, Studi in onore di Adelmo Barigazzi I (Rome, 1986) 43-47;Hock RF - O'Neil, EN, The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric : Classroom Exercises (Atlanta, 2002) n° 4;CPF 21.1T