P.Mich.inv. 3823 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 3823
- Processing Number
- 2120
- Section/Side
- Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- 8.5 x 8.5 cm
- Items
- 1
- Lines
- Col. I - 13;
- col. II - 13
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- Broken off at the top, left and right; badly preserved
- Palaeographic Description
- The hand is moderate in size and upright, of a literary character and fairly refular and uniform (Robbins)
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IIIrd or IVth century A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Probably Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Subliterary: Astrology
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Astrological Table
- Content
- Fragmentary list of full moons, giving hours (of day or night) and longitudes for 13 consecutive oppositions during one year. The longitudes found in the text can be fitted very well to actual full moon positions (e.g. in 288-289 and 383-384) but the hours do not agree throughout, so that no secure date can be determined
- Subject Headings
- Astrology, Egyptian.
- Astronomy--Egypt.
- Signs and symbols--Egypt.
- Calendar--Egypt.
- Signatures (Writing).
- Translation
- (Traces of another table, separated from this one by a double line, are visible above col. I)
- (Col. I)
- [Month, day] hour of the day: 6 [. .]. Pisces, 7° 21' (= 7° 21')
- [Month, day] hour of the day: 2 2/3. Aries, 6° 35' (= 36° 35')
- [Month, day] hour of the night: 12, 0. Taurus, 6° 6' (= 66° 6')
- [Month, (.)]9(?) hour of the day: 11 1/3(?). Gemini, 5° 56' (= 95° 56')
- [Month, day] hour of the day: 0 1/3. Cancer, 5° 3' (= 125° 3')
- [Month, day] hour of the night: [. .] 2/3(?). Leo, 5° 40'(?) (= 155° 40')
- [Month, day] hour of the day: [. . .]. Virgo, 5° 2' (= 185° 2')
- [Month, day] hour of the night: [. . .]. Libra, 4° 4' (= 214° 4')
- [Month, day] hour of the day: 11, 0. Scorpio, 2° 49' (= 242° 49')
- [Month, day] hour of the day: 3 1/3. Sagittarius, 1° 19' (= 271° 19')
- [Month, day] hour of the night: 2 1/3. Sagittarius, 29° 21' (= 299deg; 21')
- [Month, day] hour of the day: 5 1/3. Capricornus, 27° 55' (= 327° 55')
- [Month, day] hour of the [. . .]: 6 [. .]. Aquarius, 26° 43' (= 356° 43')
- (Col. II)
- [Thoth - - -]
- Phaophi [- - -]
- [Phaophi? - - -]
- [Hathyr? - - -]
- Choiak [- - -]
- [Tybi - - -]
- Mecheir [- - -]
- Phamenoth [- - -]
- (Sign in margin) Pharmouthi [- - -]
- Pachon [- - -]
- Pauni [- - -]
- Epeiph [- - -]
- (Sign in margin) Mesore [- - -]
- Papyri.info Link
- https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2120
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections PMich III Robbins FE 1936 150 Robbins FE, PMich III, 150, 1936
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- O. Neugebauer, Trans.Amer.Phil.Soc. NS 32 (1942) p. 251-252; E. Delporte, CE 22 (1947) p. 73-83; O. Neugebauer, Proc.Amer.Phil.Soc. 106 (1962) p. 386, no. 21; Pack[2] 2018; O. Neugebauer, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (New York - Heidelberg - Berlin, 1975) p. 945-6
Availability/System Requirements
- Time to Scan
- 7
- Scanner Initials
- CT
- Date Scanned
- 7/1/1996
- Institution
- sr
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 300
- Year End
- 399
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2057 x 2713
- File Size
- 207 KB
- Record
- 2120
- Link to this Item
-
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2120/3823.tif
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