From Alexandria to Babylon
Subtitle: Near Eastern languages and Hellenistic erudition in the Oxyrhynchus glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 + 4812)
By: Francesca Schironi.
Contributors: Hunt, Arthur S. 1871-1934.
Series: Studies in the recovery of ancient texts
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York : Walter de Gruyter
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9783110206937
Subjects: Semitic languages -- Lexicography -- Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt -- Bahnasā; Oxyrhynchus papyri; Bahnasā (Egypt) -- Antiquities
Description: This book provides the first full edition and commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (POxy 1802 and 4812). This is a unique document both for the history of Greek lexicography and for the study of the cultural and linguistic exchange between the Greeks and the "others" in the Hellenistic near East. The fragment contains a fully alphabetized glossary with lemmas defined as "Persian", "Babylonian" and "Chaldaean", as well as lemmas taken from Greek dialects or common Greek. The entries are rich in quotations from ancient authorities including Berossus, Apollodorus and Erasistratus. This glossary.
Notes: "The Oxyrhynchus Glossary that is the object of the present study was previously published by Arthur S. Hunt as P.Oxy. 15.1802"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The manuscript; title: Dialects and foreign languages; title: References and quotations; title: The Pergamene hypothesis; title: The Alexandrian hypothesis; title: The languages of the Oxyrhynchus glossary; title: Acquisition and transcription of the glosses; title: Glossography and dialectology in the Hellenistic period; title: Glossography and dialectology on papyrus; title: The unique value of the Oxyrhynchus glossary; title: Authorship; title: Edition; title: Commentary; title: Problems in editing the Oxyrhynchus glossary; title: The Oxyrhynchus glossary and Greek glossography; title: Old and new numeration of the Oxyrhynchus glossary; title: Fragments.