Historical fragment |
Unknown |
Fragment of Boeotian history (or periegesis ?) |
Bonner C, TAPA 72, 26-35, 1941, Pl I |
P.Mich.inv. 4913 |
1 papyrus ; 13 x 9.3 cm |
It is a much damaged fragment, roughly oblong in contour, now broken into several
pieces by both horizontal and vertical cracks. |
Col. I: 9 lines; col. II: 16 lines; Ccol. III: 12 lines |
Source of description: Recto |
It belonged to a roll of papyrus of a medium brown color and fair quality. The ink
is a good black. At one place the upper margin has been preserved in what was probbaly
its original height, 1.9 cm. The second column is 4.5 cm wide, and the lines contain
from 19 to 23 letters. The intercolumnar space is about 1.8 cm. The hand is a small
uncial, neat yet not quite regular. Some of the letters are slightly inclined, but
the writing is clearly earlier than the well-marked sloping hands of the third century.
The omicron is small in proportion to the other letters, and the omega has in its
base only a slight wave, which disappears in a few of the examples. ;The orthography
is correct (except one iotacism in col. III, 11). The iota adscript is used in Col.
II, 8-10, but is omitted in l.1. A diaeresis is placed over iota in Col. II, 6 and
space fillers stand at the ends of Col. I, 9 and Col. II, 7. A short stroke under
line 8 of col. III may be a paragraphus. There are on other marks of punctuation,
although a slight space before "o de" (Col. III, 7) may indicate a minor pause. |
Unknown
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Greek |
IInd century A.D.
|
Location: Ann Arbor |
Pub. status: Recto |
Notou, village, Greece;Tanagrike, chora, Greece;Salganeus, Boeotia, Greece;Aulis,
Boeotia, Greece;Anthedon, Boeotia, Greece;Akraiphnia, Boeotia, Greece; Literary; history; Papyrus |
Nikokrates, classical author |
Recto thumbnail |
Recto medium |
Recto large |
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