Dioskoros
| Name: | Dioskoros |
| Variants: | Flavius Dioskoros and Sophia |
| Place: | U10a - Aphrodito (Kom Ishgau) |
| Century: | AD06 |
| Begin: | AD 400 |
| End: | AD 799 |
| Language/script: | bilingual: Greek, Coptic and 8 bilingual Greek-Lat |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 570 |
| ↳ certain: | 555 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 15 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private archive (including contracts and poems written by the notary Dioskoros and his personal library) |
| Protagonist: | Flavius Dioskoros son of Apollos was a landlord and notary in Aphrodito, but also a poet, and owner of a library, which included i.a. a codex of Menander (TM 61596 = LDAB 2745). Perhaps the papyri dealing with Phoibammon son of Triadelphos should be considered a separate archive (cf. Fournet, Pap. Congr. XXII (Firenze 1998), 2001, p. 475 n. 2). |
| Description: | contracts, petitions, letters, accounts, receipts, poems. For literary papyri in the archive, click here. |
| Studies: | Maltz, Studi Calderini e Paribeni, 1957, p. 345-356, with a full list of texts (no. 30, which is indicated as P. Erl. 55, should be P. Erl. 41 (with inv. no. 55)); MacCoull, CdE 56 (1981), p. 185-193, on the Coptic papyri; Verbeeck in Pestman, Familiearchieven uit het land van Pharao, 1989, p. 46-69; Daris, Due note a papiri Palau-Ribes, Emerita 64 (1996), p. 289; Fournet, Hellénisme dans l'Égypte du VIe siècle (MIFAO 115), 1999; Fournet, Les archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte, Paris 2008 (with a list p. 307-343); Wispzycka, Moines et communautés monastiques, JJP Suppl. 11 (2009), p. 87-88. For publication of the inedited Coptic papyri, cf. Fournet, Pap. Congr. XXII (Firenze 1998), 2001, p. 483 - 484. Online presentation on Dioskoros and Kom Ishqaw by Kuehn: http://www.byzantineegypt.com/. |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 260 no. 86-87; Seidl, Rechtsgeschichte Ägyptens als römischer Provinz, 1973, p. 66 no. 1.25 |
| Work: | Most Coptic texts are still unpublished. For new Greek and Coptic papyri, see Fournet, Les archives de Dioscore d’Aphrodité cent ans après leur découverte, 2008. |
| Collections: |
Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library Assiut, Private collection Beaugé Baltimore, Walters Art Museum Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum Cairo, Coptic Museum Cairo, Egyptian Museum Cairo, Private collection Michaelidis Cologne, Papyrussammlung Erlangen, Universität Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Florence, Istituto Papirologico 'G. Vitelli' Geneva, Bibliothèque Ghent, University Hamburg, Bibliothek London, British Library New Jersey, Private collection Lampros Princeton, University Library Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca del Vaticano St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum St Petersburg, Paleographical Museum of the Science Academy Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale Tbilisi, Kekelidze Institut |
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