Papyrus of Artémidore
The papyrus of Artémidore was found during the years 1990 in a cluster of various old men papyri, recycled at the end it 1st century to manufacture a Sarcophage Momie.
Among the elements of this cluster were about fifty pieces of the papyrus of Artémidore. High 32,5 cm and 2,55 m length, the papyrus is composed in fact of two pieces, between which it misses a sheet. The recto is composed of a text of Géographie, which one could allot to Artémidore d' Éphèse, a Greek geographer of - and -, whose work was known for us until now only by quotations of other authors.
The found text is composed of an introduction and beginning of a description of the Iberian peninsula. The originality of the papyrus is that it comprises a Geographical map. This chart, unfinished, undoubtedly represents the Bétique, i.e. the south-western part of Spain. One can suppose that the draftsman did not complete it, because it realized that it did not copy the chart corresponding to the text. This occurred at the end from -. The papyrus was however not put at the reject. With the back, one drew forty animals, realities or fantastic. These drawings were to allow customers who wished to make carry out a Fresque or a mosaic to choose a model. The life of the papyrus however did not stop there: in the spaces remained free with the recto, i.e. the “title page” and spaces where were to appear the charts not carried out, one represented two heads as well as other elements of Anatomie, undoubtedly as exercise.
According to the date of the other documents found in the cluster, the papyrus of Artémidore would finally have been recycled in old paper towards the end of the 1st century.
It from now on is exposed to the Palazzo Bricherasio of Turin.
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