150 dpi image of 178
Title: List of philosophers, [3--]
Author: Aurelios Ammon, Scholastikos, fl. 348
Subject: Philosophers, Ancient --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Literary papyri --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Lists --Egypt --Akhmim --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, six fragments of which five join,
mounted in glass, incomplete ; 22 x 10 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 22.0 x 10.0 cm.
35 lines.
Written along the fibers on the recto in Ammon's informal hand.
Upper margin of 1 cm.; lower margin of 3 cm.; small
right margin.
P.Duk.inv. 178 was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 178.
List of philosophers from Panopolis (modern name: Akhmim),
Egypt written on papyrus. List of the most important
Greek philosophers arranged by schools including
the Pre-Socratics, the Academy, the Cynics, the Peripatetics,
and the Stoics including the Cynic Stoics. Part of
the Archive of Ammon, the well-known scholastikos, or lawyer.
Descriptive database available in repository.
Publications:The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis
(P.Ammon), ed. W.H. Willis and K. Maresch. I 1. Opladen 1997.
See also Willis, William H. "Two Literary Papyri
in an Archive from Panopolis." Illinois Classical
Studies 3 (1978): 145-151 (plate p. 153); Willis, William
H. and T. Dorandi, "Lista di scolarchi," Corpus dei
papiri filosofici I 1* (Firenze 1989) 81-84 (no. 1).
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