![]() ![]() The back side of one of the documentary rolls had already been reused to copy some notes on the speech of Demosthenes against Meidias. Aristotle’s Constitutions was copied (apparently by multiple different copyists) against the fibers, upside down relative to the documents on the front. A pair of documents relating to an estate in the Hermopolite nome from the time of Vespasian (78-79 CE) and a short set of scholia to Callimachus written along the fibers. ![]() It consists of four papyrus rolls that had been used for other purposes. The artifact itself is also somewhat complicated. ![]() 131, LDAB 391).Īs usual, this turned out more complicated than I expected. I recently wanted to quickly refresh myself on what can be known about the provenance of the famous papyrus containing nearly the entire text of Aristotle’s Constitution of the Athenians (British Library Pap. ![]()
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