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TM 65772 / LDAB 7026 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/65772

also known as Mertens-Pack 02563.010; Ai Khanoum Philosophical Papyrus

TM Gallery info The Ai Khanoum Philosophical Papyrus (TM 65772) is the imprint of a papyrus on mud. The papyrus itself is now no longer in existence because of the prevailing humidity.

Metadata

Date: 3rd - 2nd century BC: BC 299 - 100

Provenance: Alexandria Oxiana (Ai Khanum) - Afghanistan (BactriaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - outside the Imperium RomanumThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Afghanistan ? - Afghanistan (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - outside the Imperium RomanumThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Book form: roll

Content (beta!): literary text, Aristoteles?: Philosophical dialogue

Authors / works: Aristoteles, Opus incertum (?) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, philosophy, dialogue (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro

Note: papyrus lost, but mirror imprint remaining

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM, PHISearchable Greek Inscriptions (Packard Humanities Institute) => 223424 links in TM, other

Publications

ZPE 142 (2003), p. 45-51 (Lerner, Jeffrey D. - 2003) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

∙Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 2.1 2 p. 3-13 (Bonazzi, Mauro - 2019)

∙Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien (IK) 65 457 (Canali De Rossi, Filippo - 2004)

∙Rapin, La trésorerie du palais hellénistique d'Aï Khanoum p. 115-121 (Rapin, Claude - 1992)

∙Studi su codici e papiri filosofici (Studi e testi per il Corpus dei papiri filosofici 6) p. 169-188 [papyrus] (Isnardi Parente, Margherita - 1992)

∙Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (BCH) 111 (1987), p. 232-249 (1987) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (BCH) 111 (1987), p. 225-249 no. 1 (Rapin, Claude - 1987) Please subscribe to follow this link

Photo: ed. princ.; E.Crisci, Scrivere greco fuori d'Egitto, Pap. Flor. 27, pl. CXIX; J.Irigoin, Le livre grec des originines à la Renaissance, Paris 2001, p.41; Cl. Rapin, La Trésorerie du palais hellénistique d'Aï Khanoum. L'apogée et la chute du royaume grec de Bactriane (Fouilles d'Aï Khanoum VIII, Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique; C. Méla - F. Möri, Alexandrie la divine II (2014), fig. 122 française en Afghanistan 33), fig. 122, p. 683 and 1085; CPF II.1,pl.1; J.-L. Fournet, Le papyrus dans tous ces états de Cléopatre à Clovis, p. 55 no. 16; CRAIBL 2017, p. 1129

Content studies: M. Isnardi Parente, Studi su codici e papiri filosofici, Firenze 1992, p. 169-188 (Aristoteles?)

Collections

∙Kabul, National Museum number unknown (previous)

now lost; Bactria, Ai Khanum excavation no. Akh III B 77, P.O. 154

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