OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

P.Yale 2.102 (P.CtYBR inv. 1540)

Size:

Fragm.a: 7 x 18 cmFragm.b: 5.8 x 15.5 cm.

Lines:

Frag.a + b: 84

Publication side:

Recto, the Verso is blank

Palaeographic description:

The handwriting, a small and even cursive the style of which is familiar from carefully written documents and letters of the 2nd cent. A.D., indicates that our fragments are part of a private copy; it is no regular book hand.

State of preservation:

The papyrus is of ordinary quality.

Content

Date:

IInd century A.D.

Origin:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Literary

Author:

Demosthenes

Title / Type of text:

Demosthenes' Epistola II

Content:

Demosthenes' Epistola II (Peri tes idias kathodou) 18-20, 23-25.

Subjects:

Literature Epistle Demosthenes

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

–

Provenance:

Unknown place, province of Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased from M.Nahman, Cairo, Sept. 1934

Acquisition year:

–

Editions

• Eitrem S-Amundsen L, Eranos 54, 1956, 101-108
  ▾ Corrections:

  • Packman ZM, BASP 10 (1973) p. 31-41

Further Literature

Pasquali G, Stor. Testo 2.ed.(1962) p.292-294