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Auction archive: Lot number 11

A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$33,600
Auction archive: Lot number 11

A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$33,600
Beschreibung:

A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT
A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT EGYPT, ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D. HOMER -- Glossary to Book IX of the Iliad , verses 454-468 written on both sides, verso: Homeric glossary, 14 lines (12 words and 2 numbers), incipit : \Kekekleto\k, second line: the number \Ksn\k (250), followed by 12 lines, the last word being \Khjaistoio\k and the number \Ksx\k (260). Greek uncials. Recto: legal document, addressed to Sarapion, governor of the southern nome of Sebennytos, filing a citizen's grievance, 13 lines. Cursive script. (Holes affecting text.) c. 110 x 75 mm.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jun 2006 - 28 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
27-28 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT
A GREEK PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT EGYPT, ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D. HOMER -- Glossary to Book IX of the Iliad , verses 454-468 written on both sides, verso: Homeric glossary, 14 lines (12 words and 2 numbers), incipit : \Kekekleto\k, second line: the number \Ksn\k (250), followed by 12 lines, the last word being \Khjaistoio\k and the number \Ksx\k (260). Greek uncials. Recto: legal document, addressed to Sarapion, governor of the southern nome of Sebennytos, filing a citizen's grievance, 13 lines. Cursive script. (Holes affecting text.) c. 110 x 75 mm.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jun 2006 - 28 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
27-28 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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