Cynic diatribe(?) (P.Duk.inv. 755)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Cynic diatribe(?), [4--]
Subject: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. --Friends and associates.
	Physicians --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Philosophy, Ancient --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Literary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Treatises --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, four partly joining fragments mounted
	in glass, very incomplete, abraded.
Note: Dimensions of fragments are 10.9 x 8.8 cm. or smaller.
	47 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso.
	Right margin of 0.5 cm. on the recto of the smaller
	fragment; left margin of 0.5 cm. on the verso of
	the smaller fragment.
	P.Duk.inv. 755 was formerly P.Rob.inv. 14.
	Papyrus codex leaf from Egypt that is part of a philosophical
	text(?), written on papyrus. Mentions Alexander the
	Great on the recto and Isokrates on the verso. Text
	deals with the subject of friendship in the life
	of Alexander with an incident relating to physicians
	in which Isokrates is involved. Smaller fragment
	mentions Kleitophon on the recto.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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