P.Mich.inv. 4800 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4800
- Processing Number
- 2320
- Section/Side
- fragments I-III + fragments a-l
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso: remains of memoranda or accounts (early IIIrd cent. A.D.?)
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- frg. I: 13.9 x 14.7 cm;
- frg. II: 14.4 x 10.9 cm;
- frg. III: 7.7 x 5.5 cm;
- frg. a: 1.1 x 3.9 cm;
- frg. b: 1.7 x 6.6 cm;
- frg. c: 2 x 3.2 cm;
- frg. d: 1.8 x 8 cm;
- frg. e: 1.9 x 3.2 cm;
- frg. f: 1.2 x 2.1 cm;
- frg. g: 1.2 x 1.7 cm;
- frg. h: 0.6 x 1.8 cm;
- frg. i: 1.2 x 2.6 cm;
- frg. j: 1.2 x 2.1 cm;
- frg. k: 1.1 x 1.6 cm;
- frg. l: 2.6 x 6.9 cm
- Items
- 15
- Lines
- frg. I, col. I: 5;
- frg. I, col. II: 19;
- frg. I, col. III: 12;
- frg. II, col. I: 4;
- frg. II, col. II: 20;
- frg. III: 9;
- frg. a: 7;
- frg. b: 7;
- frg. c: 6;
- frg. d: 16;
- frg. e: 6;
- frg. f: 5;
- frg. g: 3;
- frg. h: 3;
- frg. i: 5;
- frg. j: 4;
- frg. k: 3;
- frg. l: 11
- Mounted
- Yes
- Negative
- Yes
- Conservation Status
- Much damaged. Frg. I: broken off on the left and right sides and at the bottom(?); frg. II: broken off on the left and right sides and at the bottom(?); frg. III: broken off on the left and right sides and at the top. Other fragments broken off on all sides, except frg. c (complete at the right?) and frg. l (complete at the bottom?)
- Palaeographic Description
- small, round, upright hand
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd century A.D. (reign of Hadrian or a few decades later)
- Origin
- Unknown place, province of Egypt
- Provenance
- Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt
- Acquisition
- 26-B17F-A
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Literary
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- Acta Alexandrinorum
- Content
- Fragments of the Acts of the Alexandrian (pagan) martyrs, concerning some injustices committed presumably in Alexandria, towards Alexandrians; there are references to the Jewish-Greek relations, to violence towards young boys (epheboi), to attacks by the soldiery, to a woman pleading for her young son or for her own life, to death and mourning(?) and perhaps to the prefect of Egypt of 103-107 A.D., Gaius Vibius Maximus
- Subject Headings
- Martyrs--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Jews--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Greeks--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Young adults--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Ethnic conflict--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Violence--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Acta Alexandrinorum.
- Pleading--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Children--Crimes against--Egypt--Alexandria.
- Persons
- Maximus(?) (= Gaius Vibius Maximus, prefect of Egypt?);
- (unnamed) arabarchai
- Geographica
- Alexandreus(?)
- Translation
- (Text too fragmentary to be translated)
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections JRS 47 Musurillo H 1957 185-190 Musurillo H, JRS 47, 185-190, 1957 Acta Alexandrinorum Musurillo H 1961 22 Musurillo H, Acta Alexandrinorum, 22, 1961
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- J. Bingen, CE 33 (1958) p. 279-280; Pack [2] 2242.
Availability/System Requirements
- Institution
- sc
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- PH
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 199
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 4608
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2320
- Link to this Item
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