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Title Precepts for men in high positions
catalogue 14384. Raffaella Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt., (Atlanta, Georgia 1996). 233 descr.
Reference Edition
Fragments Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum P. 12318
Support Material pottery
Date 193 - 187 v.Chr.
More from the period between 193 BCE and 187 BCE
Date 210 - 204 v.Chr.
More from the period between 210 BCE and 204 BCE
Origin Fundort: Philadelpheia (Arsinoites, Egypt); Schreibort: Philadelpheia (Arsinoites, Egypt)
More from Fundort: Philadelpheia (Arsinoites, Egypt); Schreibort: Philadelpheia (Arsinoites, Egypt)
Form and Layout ostracon: pottery sheet (columns: 0, written lines: 23, pagination: 0)
Genre prose; ethics
Culture literature
Religion classical
Images berlpap.smb.museum/03459
Print Illustrations Cribiore 233, pl. 24; Pap. Congr. XXV (Ann Arbor 2007), 2010, p. 238
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Trismegistos: 65666 [source]

Publications Berliner Museen 42 (1920-1921), p. 102-104 (1920) = Pap. Congr. XXV (Ann Arbor 2007) p. 227-238 (2010)
Inv. no. Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 12318
Date BC 193 - 187 about? (cf. the range of the archive); or BC 210 - 204 about? (cf. the range of the archive)
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00a - Philadelpheia (Gharabet el-Gerza)[found & written]
Archive Ostraca from a cellar in Philadelpheia

Introduction

DCLP transcription: 65666 [xml]

Πρῶτον ὅτι τὸν μὲν ἐν ταῖς ὑπερ[ο-]
χαῖς ὅσωι ἂν ἦι μείζων τοσούτωι
χρὴ κοινότερον εἶναι καὶ ἐπιμελέστε-
ρο̣ν τῶν οἰκείων καὶ φίλων ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ κἂμ πά-
5νυ τινὲς ὦσιν ἄδοξοι καὶ εὐτελεῖς
ὑπολαμβάνοντα τοῦτο καλὸν
εἶναι καὶ ζηλωτόν, εἰ δι’ αὐτὸν ἐνδοξό-
τεροι γίνονται καὶ γονεῖς καὶ ἀδελφοὶ
καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ πάντες οἰκεῖοι καὶ συνήθεις.
——
10λαθεῖμ μὲγ γὰρ οὐδ’ ὧς ἔστιν οὔτε ἐκ τίνων
πέφυκεν οὔθ’ ὅπως βεβίωκεν οὔτε ποίοις
τισὶν χρῆται πολλοὶ γὰρ οἱ ψητοῦντες(*)
——
καὶ ἅμα φιλεῖ \πως/ συναύξεσθαι τἀγαθὰ καὶ τὰ κακὰ
ταῖς εὐημερίαις ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ ὥστ’ ἐκφανῆ γίνεσθαι πᾶσιν
——
15ἐν τιμῇ δ’ ἄγων αὐτοὺς τῆι δικαίαι περιποιήσαι-
τ’ ἂν εὐλόγως δόξαν ἀρετῆς⁦ vac. ? ⁩ἔτι δὲ καὶ μικρόψυ-
χον ἔμοιγε ἀεὶ φαίνεται θάτερον ὅπερ ἔνιοι
——
δρῶσιν ἀποκρυπτόμενοι καὶ ἀποποιούμενοι
τοὺς φύσει γονεῖς ἀναξίους ὅταν εὐτυχήσωσιν
——
20αὐτὸγ γὰρ ἡγεμόνα χρὴ τῆς εὐγενείας εἶναι
καὶ τοῦτο τρόπον τινὰ κάλλιον ἢ προυπάρχου-
σαν παρ’ ἑτέρων λαβεῖν ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ εἰ δὲ μὴ τὴν ὀφειλομέ -
——
νην εὔνοιαν ἐκ τῆς φύσεως μὴ ἀποστερεῖν

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