Document

• AuthorsAnonyme
• TitlePB 51
• CopyistsThe educational exercise is written in somewhat irregularly formed upright capitals. The scientific or ethnographic treatise is written in a neat hand that Schubart associates with the “Alexandrian Majuscule” style.
• Event Date PlaceP.Bodmer 51 recto: late 3rd cent. or early 4th cent. (Schubart, “P.Bodmer LI verso,” by reference to other texts extracted from the cover of P.Bodmer 23); P.Bodmer 51 verso: first half of the 4th cent. (Schubart, “P.Bodmer LI verso,” by palaeography, other texts from cover of P.Bodmer 23)
• Language(s)grc

Publication, distribution

Edition

Description material

• TypeManuscript
• VolumeThe roll was at least at least 19.9 cm high. It is not possible to determine the original length of the roll. The syllabic exercises written along the fibers (→) occupied at least 14 lines. The ethnographic treatise written against the fibers (↓) had at least 36 lines per column.
• Physical MediumPapyrus, soot-based black ink

Remarques

• General Notes
  Paratextual features: The columns of the syllabic exercise (P.Bodmer 51 recto) are separated by double vertical lines, and groups of names beginning with different letters are separated by horizontal lines.
  
  Decorations: None.
  
  Other holding institutions: None
  
• AbstractFragment of a papyrus roll containing syllabic exercises (P.Bodmer 51 recto), reused for a scientific or ethnographic text (P.Bodmer 51 verso), extracted from the cover of P.Bodmer 23
  Description: This portion of a roll extracted from the lining of the leather cover of P.Bodmer 23 was first used for an educational exercise consisting of a partially alphabetized list of names divided into syllables (P.Bodmer 51 recto) copied along the fibers (→). The blank back of the papyrus (↓) was later reused to copy a scientific or ethnographic treatise (copied upside down relative to the educational exercise, P.Bodmer 51 verso) before being used as waste papyrus in the construction of the cover of P.Bodmer 23.
  
• Bibliography
  LDAB number: syllabic exercises:5269; ethnographic text: 699689
  TM number: syllabic exercises: 64053; ethnographic treatise: 699689
  Digital text: Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri and DCLP
  
  Editio princeps:
  P.Bodmer 51 recto: Di Bitonto Kasser, Anna. “P.Bodmer LI recto: esercizio di divisione sillabica.” Museum Helveticum 55 (1998), 112-118.
  P.Bodmer 51 verso: Schubert, Paul. “P.Bodmer LI verso: restes d’un traité médical ou ethnographique?” Museum Helveticum 73 (2016), 1-10.
  
  Additional Bibliography:
  Kasser, Rodolphe. Papyrus Bodmer XXIII: Esaïe XLVII, l - LXVI, 24 en sahidique. Cologny-Genève: Bibliothèque Bodmer, 1965, 8-15.
  

Identification

• ConstellationPapyri
• PID3756
• Shelf MarkPB 51