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Artefact ID	1679
TM ID	TM 63302
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Sheet/roll
Text content	Literary, Uncertain
Language	Greek
Description	P.Paris Suppl. Gr. 1294, Supplément grec 1294, van Haelst 856: Romance Papyrus, Alexander Papyrus A fragment of a papyrus roll (34 x 11.5 cm) with the remnants of four columns of text, the document is especially characterized by its three illustrations placed within the columns, reminiscent of the Herakles Papyrus at Oxford (P.Oxy. 12 2331, 3rd c.). Apparently describing a judicial dispute about money between an old woman and a soldier, Demetrios (?), arbitrated at court by a στρατεγός, it was initially assumed by Seymour de Ricci to be a romance from the 1st to 2nd c., a presumption not verified due to the fragmentary nature of the text. Only Preisendanz 1933 listed it as a liturgical fragment, without further explanation, before Stephens first raised the option of a Christian (or Jewish) martyrology in Kussl 1991. Gallazzi/Settis 2006 deem this unlikely on the basis of the medium being a roll rather than a codex, which they consider typical of Christian writing. The text remains unedited.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Hagiographic)
Date from	200
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; first dated to the 1st/2nd c., later placed in the 3rd/4th c. (Stephens/Winkler 1995)
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown; acquired by Henri Omont for the Bibliothèque Nationale on 17.05.1902 (announced on 09.1902) from a French private collection, where the papyrus had been for “une vigntaine d’années” (de Ricci 1902).
Accession number	Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Suppl. grec 1294

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Additional bibliography (in chronological order)
• de Ricci, Seymour. 1902. “Bulletin Papyrologique II.” Revue des Études Grecques Vol. 15, No. 67. 408-460: 447-448.
• Bauer, Adolf and Josef Strzygowski. 1905. Eine Alexandrinische Weltchronik. Text und Miniaturen eines Griechischen Papyrus der Sammlung W. Goleniščev. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse LI. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. 174.
• Gerstinger, Hans. 1926. Die Griechische Buchmalerei. Vienna: Druck und Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei. 10. [Mentioned]
Gąsiorowski, Stanisław Jan. 1928. Malarstwo minjaturowe grecko-rzymskie i jego tradycje w średniowieczu. Krakow: W. L. Anczyc. 17, Fig. 2.
• Gąsiorowski, Stanisław Jan. 1928. “Graeco-Roman Miniature Painting and its Traditions in the Middle Ages.” In Malarstwo minjaturowe grecko-rzymskie i jego tradycje w średniowieczu. Krakow: W. L. Anczyc. V.
• Gąsiorowski, Stanisław Jan. 1931. “A Fragment of a Greek Illustrated Papyrus from Antinoë.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA) 17. 1-9: 8. [Mentioned]
• Preisendanz, Karl. 1933. Papyrusfunde und Papyrusforschung. Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann. 218n1.
• Buchthal, Hans. 1938. The Miniatures of the Paris Psalter. A Study in Middle Byzantine Painting. London: The Warburg Institute. 58. [Mentioned]
• Weitzmann, Kurt. 1947. Illustrations in Roll and Codex. A Study of the Origin and Method of Text Illustration. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 51-52, No. 6. Plate 40.
• Weitzmann, Kurt. 1957. “Narration in Early Christendom.” American Journal of Archaeology (AJA) 61. 83-91: 84. Plate 33, Fig. 2.
• Weitzmann, Kurt. 1959. Ancient Book Illumination. Martin Classical Lectures XVI. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 100-101, 152n12. Plate LI, Fig. 107.
• Astruc, Charles and Marie-Louise Concasty. 1960. Bibliothèque Nationale. Département des Manuscrits. Catalogue des Manuscrits Grecs. Troisième partie. Le Supplément Grec. Tome III. N°s 901-1371. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale. 556-557.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 286, No. 856.
Weitzmann, Kurt. 1977. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller. Fig. 1.
• Bell, Malcolm. 1979. The Age of Spirituality. Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century. Catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977, through February 12, 1978, edited by Kurt Weitzmann. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Princeton University Press. 245-246. Plate 222.
• Hägg, Tomas. 1983. The Novel in Antiquity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 94, Fig. 27.
• Hägg, Tomas. 1987. Eros und Tyche. Der Roman in der antiken Welt. Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt 36. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern. 120, Abb. 29.
• Martin, Henri-Jean and Jean Vezin, 1990. Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit. Paris: Editions du Cercle de la Librarie – Promodis. 39, No. 12.
• Kussl, Rolf. 1991. Papyrusfragmente griechischer Romane. Ausgewählte Untersuchungen. Classica Monacensia 2. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. 178.
• Horak, Ulrike. 1992. “Verzeichnis illuminierter edierter Papyri, Pergamente, Papiere und Ostraka.” Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere I. Pegasus Oriens I. Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag. 227-261: 234, ViP 74.
• Stephens, Susan A. and John J. Winkler. 1995. “Appendix A. Also known as Romance.” In Ancient Greek Novels. The Fragments. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 470, No. 7.
• Morgan, John Robert. 1998. On the Fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of Ancient Greek Fiction 1936–1994. Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt (ANRW). Teil II: Principat. Band 34.4, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter. 3389-3390.
• Legras, Bernard. 2002. Lire en Egypte d'Alexandre à l'Islam. Paris: Editions Picard. 14, Plate IV.
• Gallazzi, Claudio and Salvatore Settis. 2006. Le tre vite del papiro di Artemidoro. Voci e sguardi dall’Egitto greco-romano. Milan: Electra. 280, No. 109.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023

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Victoria G. D. Landau, 2023, "Artefact ID 1679", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1679

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