Detail View: Papyri Collection: Cyropaedia fragment
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Reference number:
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Greek P 450
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Side:
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verso
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Image Number:
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JRL023108tr
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Image Title:
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Cyropaedia fragment
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Trismegistos Number:
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Subject:
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Iran--History
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Subject:
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Classical literature
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Xenophon (Comic poet), active approximately 400 B.C.E
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Source Title:
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Cyropaedia
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Translated source title:
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The Education of Cyrus
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Section:
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Book I
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Citation reference:
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P. Ryl. 2 450, P. Oxy. 7 1018
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Description:
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Fragment from Xenophon of Athens' fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the first Achaemenian Emperor of Persia (580-529 BCE).
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Time period covered:
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750 - 1 BCE
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Place covered:
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Iran
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People covered:
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Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C.
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Language:
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Greek
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Language code:
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grc-EG
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Item height:
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256 mm
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Item width:
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109 mm
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Support material:
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Papyrus
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Oxyrhynchus (mod. Bahnasa)
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Notes:
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Under glass with Greek Papyri 448 - 449; 451.
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Bibliography:
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Hunt, Arthur S., et al. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, University Press, 1911-1952
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Category:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Image sequence number:
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grc0450v
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Image technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, November 2005
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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