University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 228

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30263

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 228

Title:

Mathematical tables

Place:

Fayyūm?, Egypt

Al Fayyūm TGN

Egypt TGN

Date:

between 500 and 699

sixth century (dates CE) AAT

seventh century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Greek numerals

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

wood

Wood AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 board fragment : wood ; 95 x 390 mm

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 5 columns, in landscape orientation.
Origin: Probably written in a Christian community in Fayyūm, Egypt, in the 6th or 7th century.
Appears in Charles Ede Ltd.'s catalog Writing and lettering in antiquity IX (1983), no. 29.
Formerly held in a private collection in Texas.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 2 December 1997, lot 93, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Greek

Seventh century

fragments (object portions)

Sixth century

Tables (Data)

Mathematics, Ancient

Mathematics

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958784843503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania