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Title Euclides, Elementa 2.5, with drawing
Work Euclides, Elementa
Principal Edition P.Oxy. 1 29
Catalog(s) MP3 00368.000
Fragments Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum E 2748
Support Material papyrus
Date III - IV
More from the period between 201 CE and 400 CE
Origin Fundort: Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Egypt); Schreibort: Egypt
More from Fundort: Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Egypt); Schreibort: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll? (columns: 0, pagination: 0)
Genre prose; mathematics
Culture literature; science
Religion classical
Print Illustrations JEA 1 (1914), p.90; D.H. Fowler, The Mathematics of Plato's Academy, Oxford 1987, pl.2
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

Trismegistos: 59766 [source]

Publications P. Oxy. 1 29 (1898)
Inv. no. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum E 2748
Date AD 200 - 399
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found]; Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[written]

Catalog Record: upenn.apis.3 [xml]

Title Elements 2.5
Author Euclid
Summary Euclid, chapter 2.
Citations P. Oxy. 1.29 [John R. Abercrombie, "The University Museum's Collection of Papyri and Related Materials," Expedition 20.2 (Winter 1978): 32-37. LDAB 870; Mertens-Pack 0368]
P.Oxy.:1:29
Inv. Id P.Penn. Museum inv. E02748
Support/Dimensions 15.2 x 8.5cm. Top is missing, but the other margins are intact. Piece torn on the top right side and some through the center. Creased down the center. Top of left side shows tearing. Includes another tiny fragment. Also shows some evidence of damage in the center, perhaps fire or fluid damage. Probably from a roll or individual sheet. Also seems to have a marginal marking at the top left.
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Language Greek
Date 3rd-4th CE
More from the period between 200 CE and 399 CE
Note (general) Text is written one one side only, with the fibers.
Note (general) There are 9 lines of text and there is a diagram (rectangular boxes) to the lower right of lines 8-9, and some evidence that a similar diagram was in the lacuna to the right of lines 2-4.
Note (general) The last 8 lines are separated from the first preserved line by a marginal marker.
Note (local/note) Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collection
Subjects papyrus; literary; mathematics
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.