P.Mich.inv. 4912 / Recto
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Record Details
- Inventory Number
- P.Mich.inv. 4912
- Processing Number
- 2342
- Section/Side
- A; Recto
- Image Side
- Recto
Background and Physical Properties
- Publ./Side
- Recto; Verso is blank
- Material
- Pap
- Size
- fr. 1: 7.3 x 9.5; fr. 2: 2.1 x 4 cm
- Items
- 2
- Lines
- Fr. I, col. I, 14 lines; col. II, 15 lines; Fr. II, 6 lines
- Mounted
- No
- Negative
- No
- Conservation Status
- The papyrus fragments are broken off at all sides. Fr. 1 contains the ends of the lines of one column and the beginnings of the lines of a second. The papyrus is dark brown, rather coarse.The verso seems to contain some slight traces of writing, but these may be only ink blots.
- Palaeographic Description
- The text is written in black ink. The intercolumniar space is 1.1 cm at its narrowest point. Only one rough breathing in l. 7 and a paragraphus-mark in l. 21. The hans is rounded, upright uncial of a rather small size (letter-height average only 2 mm), written slowly with regular spacing.
- Status
- published
- Library
- Ann Arbor
Contents
- Date
- IInd- IIIrd century A.D.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Provenance
- Unknown
- Acquisition
- 1926/1927; Acquired by Bell
- Language
- Greek
- Genre
- Literary; anthology
- Author
- Unknown
- Type of Text/Title of Work
- A moral treatise with exempla
- Content
- An anthology of examples of men who bravely faced and accepted somewhat brutal forms of the death
- Subject Headings
- Literature
- Prose
- Oratory? Philosophy? Anthology
- Papyrus roll
- Accentuation
- Punctuation
- Persons
- The philosopher Anaxarchos, Nikokreon, the tyrant of Cyprus,Epameinondas
Information on Publications
- Publications
-
Series and Volume Editor Year Pg/Nr Photo SB Preferred Citation Corrections ZPE 28 Gronewald M 1978 278-80 Gronewald M, ZPE 28, 278-80, 1978 ZPE 31 Priest NE 1978 61-9 Priest NE, ZPE 31, 61-9, 1978
Information on Publications--Bibliography
- Bibliography
- col. I 12-14 = CPF I.1* 11; IV.2, Tavole, no 114
- LDAB 5066
Cataloging
- Cataloger
- NL
- Year Begin
- 100
- Year End
- 299
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3480 x 5082
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 2342
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2342/4912ar.tif
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"P.Mich.inv. 4912; Recto." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2342/4912ar.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.