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Information on CPP 454 (TM 61406)

  • Author

    Julius Africanus

  • Mythology

    Têlemachos; Anoubis (R); Osiris (R); Hermês (R); Zeus; Hades (R); Chthôn; Hêlios Teitan (Titan); Iaa(Iaweh); Phthas; Phrê; Nephthô (R); Ablanathô; Abraksas; Arktos; Phrên; Briareus (R); Phrasios (R); Iksiôn; Genea (R): Aphêbiota; Pyr; Chthonia; Ourania; Seirios; Kirkê; Acherôn; Kôkytos (R); Lêthê; Polyphlegethôn; Elpênôr

  • Quoted authors

    Homerus, Odyssey 11, 34-43; 48-50; 51; Iliad 3, 278-280; 11, 741

  • Proper names

    Têlemachos; Anoubis (R); Osiris (R); Hermês (R); Zeus; Hades (R); Chthôn; Hêlios Teitan (Titan); Iaa (Iaweh); Phthas; Phrê; Nephthô (R); Ablanathô; Abraksas; Arktos; Phrên; Briareus (R); Phrasios (R); Iksiôn; Genea (R): Aphêbiota; Pyr; Chthonia; Ourania; Seirios; Kirkê; Acherôn; Kôkytos (R); Lêthê; Polyphlegethôn; Elpênôr; Peisistratidai; Ailia Kapitoleinê; Palaisteinê; Nysê; Karia; Rômê; Alexandros; Pantheion; Sebastos (Emperor); Ioulios Aphrikanos

  • Contents

    Fragment with the conclusion of Book 18 of the Κεστο of Julius Africanus. It contains an excerpt of 27 lines, mainly consisting of a magical incantation in hexameters, which was to be inserted in the passage of the Odyssey (Bk. XI) where Odysseus calls up the gods. For these new lines definite authority is cited in col. 2 with reference to manuscripts in Palestine, Caria and Rome.
    The papyrus fragment gives us information about the author Julius Africanus (his name, origin and erudition) and about the number of books that the Κεστο contained (the total of 14 books, as Photius stated, can be rejected; 24, as is attested in the Suidas, is more likely).

  • Bibliography

    H van Herwerden, RM 59 (1904), pp. 141-144 (p. 143 no. 14); J.-R. Vieillefond, Jules Africain, Fragments des Cestes (Paris, 1932), pp. xxii-xxiii; L. Robert, Hellenica: recueil d'épigraphie de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques 1 (Limoges, 1940), pp. 144-148 (about the library in Nysa, Caria); C.H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands (Oxford, 1956), no. 23a; K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae: die Griechischen Zauberpapyri (vol. 2) (Stuttgart, 1974²), pp. 150-151 no. 23; T. Hopfner, Griechisch-Agyptischer Offenbarungszauber. Seine Methoden, Band II, 2 (Amsterdam, 1990), pp. 553ff.; R.S. Bagnall, CPh 87 (1992), pp. 137-140 (about doc. on the verso side); K. Preisendanz, APF 8 (????), p. 126; F. Blass, APF 3 (????), pp. 297-298; K. Aland and H.-U. Rosenbaum, Repertorium der Griechischen Christlichen Papyri II, Teil 1 (Berlin-NY, 1995), pp. 347-350

  • Editio princeps

    P.Oxy. 3, 412 (B.P. Grenfell - A.S. Hunt, 1903)

  • Hand

    small to medium size, round; generally bilinear: letters tend to be of the same size and contrast is avoided (very few project above and below the line)