Plato, Parmenides, 152 b-d (P.Duk.inv. 5 (a))

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Catalogue Record

Title: Parmenides, 152 b-d, [4--]
Uniform title: Parmenides.
Author: Plato.
Subject: Literary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : parchment codex leaf, mounted in glass ; 8 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 8.0 x 7.6 cm.
	22 lines.
	Written in a literary hand; written on the verso in
	a different hand.
	Left margin of 1 cm.; small right margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 5 (a) was formerly P.Duk.inv. G 5 (a).
	Parchment codex leaf with a literary text from Egypt.
	Contains Plato's Parmenides 152 b-d. Parchment has
	been washed out and reused for a private letter in
	Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 5 (b)).
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publications: Willis, William H. "A New Fragment of
	Plato's Parmenides on Parchment." Greek, Roman, and
	Byzantine Studies 12(1971): 539-552 (plate 6 following
	p. 544).  See also Willis, William H. "A Parchment
        Palimpsest of Plato at Duke University and the Ilias
        Ambrosiana," in: Akten des XIII. Internationalen
        Papyrologen-Kongresses (München 1974) 461-467
        (plate 6).

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