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OASIS: (Greek; Roman; Byzantine) ostraca
AKA OASIS MAJOR
O. Oasis ChamsElDin1.: (Greek; ~350 AD)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0036
OBELISQUE: Lots of them, mostly Roman
(as per EEF)
The AE
word for obelisk was txn (tekhen; glyph O25).
(as per EEF; P. Tesoriere)
Roman Obelisks
http://twenj.com/obelisks.htm
by Margaret Coffin - Italia - comments@twenj.com
Obelischi di Rome
http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/VIE/obelisco/obelisk_it.htm
http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/VIE/obelisco/obelisk_eng.htm
by Cooperativa IL SOGNO - Italia - ilsogno@romeguide.it
Obeliscos Egipcios
http://members.tripod.com/obeliscos_egipcios
by Claudio Alvarez -
Argentina - obeliscos_egipcios@yahoo.com
http://www-sira.montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr/ROME/obelisk.html
See this link for Cleopatra’s needle
and more
http://www.bib-arch.org/aoma01/pp.html
[B_182a, no img,IGNR] CATNYP# *OBL,
Institut Francais d’Arch. A la Bibliotheque nationale de Paris, Le Caire, 1931,
Tome 30(3-4).
Non-pictorial
descriptions of numerous obelisks.
OCCAM: and his common sense
OLZ: (philology / theology) journalRemember the wisdom of Occam's Razor:
"...of all possible solutions to a given problem, the simplest one is the one most likely to be
correct..."Whenever one seeks complex, convolute and arcane answers
to a problem...that person has probably missed the correct answer.i.e. G-d is subtle, not wicked.
OLZ=Orientalische
Literaturzeitung
[B_570,rvw]
CATNYP# *OAA+ (Orientalische
Literaturzeitung) Berlin, 1898-present
See KAHUN;
CALENDAR; referenced in Anne Sophie Bomhard’s text:
“The Ancient Egyptian Calendar…” [B_HOUSE]
OMPHALOS: (meroitic) artifact
http://www.sag-online.de/pdf/mittsag3-8.pdf
see meroitic omphalos
See Reisner; MFA in Boston; Thebes;
Temple of AMUN
royal cemeteries at Meroe / Gebel Barkal
Nubian MFA
item report on the OMPHALOS filed with [B_031]
ON: (AE; Biblical) City of
See
Annu, Heliopolis.
ONTARIO: [Canada Museum] (Greek; Demotic)
ostraca; collections
O. Ont. Mus. 1.1: (Greek/Demotic; 229 bce; from THEBES)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0037
OPPERT: (Author)
Jules [AKA Julius] Oppert, born Hamburg, 1825-1905. Founder
of Assyriology.
Worked on the Achaemenian inscriptions.
Biblical Scholar.
Study of Assyrian Metrology and
Astronomy (and Grammar).
Study of Mesopotamian legal
documents.
[B_087,8.5,BIB,
JH] CATNYP#
*PWZ (Oppert) (Muss-Arnolt, W. Works of Jules Oppert), "The works of Jules Oppert".
Semitic fragment?
Mentions work on the Borsippa
Inscriptions, Achaemenian inscriptions,
Moabite Stone,
sarcophagus of Eshmunazar of Sidon.
Sargonides (Assyrian) insciptions.
See also p. 534, #54 (Juif).
See also Sennacherib
[W_003,rvw] WATSON# 540.5 Op5. "Documents juridiques de l'Assyrie et de la Chaldee
: par MM. J. Oppert et J.
Menant", Paris 1877.
Assyrian civil law.
[W_004,rvw] WATSON# 540.4 Op5 "Expedition scientifique en
Mesopotamie : executee par order du gouvernement de 1851 a 1854 / par MM.
Fulgence Fresnel, Felix Thomas et Jules Oppert."
Paris 1859.
ORBINEY: (AE) papyrus (d'ORBINEY)
[B_102,rvw] CATNYP# *OBP 82-647, "Papyrus d'Orbiney (British
Museum), the hieroglyphic transciption, edited by Charles E.
Moldenke. Watchung, N.J., Elsinore Press, 1900.
(as per LEX) P. d'Orbiney,
LESt, 9-29?
(as per F. Chabas) A contest of two Brothers, resembles Genesis.
(as
per CATNYP) See the Tale of Two
Brothers.
See
also [similar; later] JUMILHAC.
P. d’ORBINEY=BM 10183.
ORCURTI: (Author)
Pier-Camillo O[r?]curti. Born in
Turin, 1822.
“Catologo illustrato dei monumenti
egizii del Real Museo di Torino”
Torino, 1852.
Cubit stuff.
Available at the Wilbour Library.
[B_242,8.5’s of volume 1 only,rvw=B_149,p.
16,ref]
CATNYP# *OBL
(Orcurti, P.-C. Catologo illustrato dei monumenti egizii del R. Museo di
Torino)(Locked Cage)
Two tomes in one volume.
Still I must copy page 172. Not
found at NYPL.
NYPL has volume one only.
(A different edition than what CATNYP points to.)
The NYPL book is inscribed by Orcurti
to M. Lepsius!
See p. 41:
“1. Statua d’uomo ritto col
nilometro; granito nero”.
Altezza 2.0 [meters]
Base .75
(Length:Width) : (8:3)
“2. Statua d’uomo sedente col nilometro, ristorata nel capo;
calcare bianco”.
Altezza 1.2 [meters]
Base .72
(Length:Width) : (5:3)
See Columbia’s Avery [art] Library
for volume two.
Volume
two not yet found via CLIO @ Columbia University
Library
in NY City.
ORHUN: (Turkish) Monuments of law
http://www.hukukmuzesi.com/ehukukmuzesi/hm212e.html
ORHUN
MONUMENTS: they are oldest written samples of Turkish language. Today they are
in Mongolia. They are also called as Orhun and Yenisey inscriptions due to the fact that
they are in between the rivers Orhun and Yenisey. The inscriptions are also named
according to where they are present. For example; North
Mongolia inscriptions, Yenisey inscriptions, Altay inscriptions, East Turkmen
inscriptions.
See also LAW.
ORIGEN: update
See CELCUS; TORAH
The Hexapla
was an important work of biblical criticism, the magnum opus of Origen (185-254).
In his discussions with the Jews, Origen became aware of the significant differences
between the Hebrew Bible used by the Jews and the Septuagint of
Christians. Although he probably began the work while still in Alexandria, he
completed it after moving to Caesarea. Most portions of the Hexapla consisted
of six columns of parallel texts: (1) the Hebrew text, (2) the Hebrew text
transliterated into Greek characters, (3) the Greek version of Aquila, (4) the
Greek version of Symmachus, (5) the Septuagint, and (6) the Greek version of
Theodotion. In the Septuagint column, Origen marked with an obelus those
passages present in Greek but not found in his Hebrew column. When the
Septuagint lacked material found in Hebrew, Origen would insert the passage
from one of the other Greek columns (which were closer textually to the Hebrew)
and mark the insertion with an asterisk. Although the Hexapla in its entirety
was apparently never copied, the Septuagint column was copied repeatedly.
Unfortunately, many copies omitted Origen's textual marks, thus introducing a
significant amount of contamination into the textual tradition of the
Septuagint. Only a few fragments of copies of the Hexapla or of its fifth
column are extant. One of the most important witnesses to Origen's work is the
seventh century Syriac translation of the fifth column--complete with textual
marks--attributed to Paul of Tella, known as the
Syro-Hexapla.
http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/extras/Hexapla.html
ORVILLE: (Greek) Bodleian manuscript [of]
d’Orville;
at Oxford; dated to 888 CE.
(as per D.
Fowler) Seek images of this (Greek) geometric treatise.
The [Euclidean] manuscript [IMAGE!] of 888 CE: [MS. D'Orville 301, fol. 46r]
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/jpegs/imagecat/1500/imac0982.jpg
[Medieval Manuscripts and links to/from the Bodleian
Library]
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/medieval.htm
[Math!; Euclid
fragment image shown; now at U. Penn.]
http://www.math.ubc.ca/people/faculty/cass/Euclid/papyrus/papyrus.html
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/misc/towards.htm
OSIRIS: (AE; OK) legend of
[B_182a,IMG,8.5] CATNYP# *OBL,
Institut Francais d’Arch. A la Bibliotheque nationale
de Paris, Le Caire, 1931, Tome 30(3-4). Plate II.
Image of
stele of Amenemes.
See BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE.
(as per EEF; R. A. Usher-Cooper);
references to the Osirian myth
always seem to be decidedly incomplete
and generally allude to only one
or two aspects of the tale. The
Amenmose stele (Louvre C286), for example, gives very little
detail.
There is remarkably little
discussion of the subject in Herodotus, but
presumably the more complete
versions of the tale have come down to us through Greek and, possibly, some
Middle Eastern sources.
OSLO: [Norway Museum] (Greek) papyri and
ostraca
[B_479=O_049,rvw]
CATNYP# *OBKQ (Papyri Osloenses)
BOBST# PA3309 .O8
“Papyri Osloenses…edited by
S. Eitrem”
Oslo, 1925
Studies by Leiv Amundsen [1898-?]
and Samson Eitrem [1872-1966at the University of Oslo include
Greek (Magical and
literary and correspondence) Papyri. Two volumes.
See plates; see MAGIC.
(as per E. G. Turner) P. Osl. =
Papyri Osloenses, ed. S.
Eitrem and L. Amundsen. Oslo, 1925-36. 3 volumes as of 1965. Separate plates.
vol i, Magical papyri, ed. S.
Eitrem, 1925.
vol ii, Literary Texts, Documents,
Private Correspondence, ed. S. Eitrem and L. Amundsen, 1931.
vol iii, Literary Texts, Documents
(official and private), Private Correspondence, Horoscopes, short Texts and
Fragments, ed. S. Eitrem and L. Amundsen, 1936.
AKA OSLOENSIA; OSLOENSIS.
O. Oslo 1: (Greek from THEBES)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0038
P.Oslo 2.16. Declaration of Surety: (Greek; 266 bce)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0177
OSTRACA: pottery shards
See POTTERY;
COLIN CAMPBELL; OSLO et al.
OSTRACON: publication
Journal of the egyptian
study society is published 2-3 times per year.
http://www.egyptstudy.org/greetings.html
(as
per 2005 EEF reference]
See OSTRACON Volume 14, number
2, summer 2003.
Article by James Lowdermilk:
“Unit Fractions: Inception and Use”
pp. 6-9
NO CATNYP
Assigned as [B_604]
anyway.
View online at:
http://www.egyptstudy.org/Ostracon/LowdermilkUntFractionsWeb.pdf
A brief introduction into the arithmetic and astronomy of the Ancient Egyptians
with a brief bibliography referring to the more detailed works of:
Clagett, Marshall [died 10/21/05]
Gillings
Parker
Strabo
And other lesser known works on the neolithic history of the Egyptian territory.
(as
per 2005 EEF reference]
See OSTRACON Volume 16, number
1, winter 2004-5.
Article by Rhonda K. Hagerman:
“Senet: The Game of Passing”
pp. 6-9
NO CATNYP
Assigned as [B_605]
anyway.
View online at:
http://www.egyptstudy.org/Ostracon/HagemenSenet.pdf
A
brief introduction into the obscure rules of the Ancient Egyptians’ [backgammon-ish]
GAME of SENET (*the true rules
appear to have been obscured by later rule changes and lost to time, but are
reconstructed to some degree by the author) with a brief bibliography referring
to the more detailed works of: Marshall Clagett.
OTAGO: (Greek) Papyrus from University of
Papyri in the possession of the Otago Museum, Dunedin, N.Z.
http://www.chs.harvard.edu/homerpapyri/Abbreviations.html
OTHER BRUCES:
Read: “black humor” by bruce jay
friedman
Lenny Bruce Comedy on CD; See BRUCE
OTTOBONIANUS LATINUS: (Latin; medieval) Codex
See Archimedes?
AKA Heiberg Codex B?
In 1946 the Swedish scholar M. Gosta Claesson, Reader in Philology at Upsalla, discovered in the Ottoboni collection of manuscripts in the Vatican library a manuscript which contained extracts of 4 treatises by Tertullian. The manuscript once belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden and was brought by her to Rome. It is no. 1479 in the catalogue of Montfaucon (cf. Studi e Testi, 238 (1964), p.84). It does not date to the s.XIV but rather was copied in France in s.XIII (according to François Avril).
http://www.tertullian.org/manuscripts/ottobonianus.htm
See J. Borleffs, Un nouveau manuscrit de Tertullien, in Vigiliae Christianae 5 (1951)
AKA Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus
OXFORD: (Greek) papyri
(as per E. G. Turner) See
Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava
Volume 3, Some Oxford Papyri, by E. P. Wegener, Leiden 1942.
See P. Oxford
Wegener.
(as per E. G. Turner) P. Oxford
Wegener = Some Oxford Papyri, ed. E. P. Wegener, Leiden, 1942 = Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava iii.
P.Oxf. 1. Petition: (Greek)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0178
OXYRHYNCHOS: (Greek and Latin; other) papyri
(as per B.P. Grenfell, HIBEH) A Ptolemaic
Nome.
See BRUXELLES or Brussells
(as per LEX) Seek work by Grenfell,
B.P., London, 1898.
(as per E. G. Turner) P. Oxy.
= The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, ed. B.P.
Grenfell, A.S. Hunt, et al, London, 1898-?, 32 volumes as of 1966.
(as per H. Goedicke) Seek OXYRHYNCHOS
P. XI, 1183.
(as per CATNYP) Seek unavailable (in-house)
material,
with KEYWORD = OXYRHYCHUS.
Follow this link to an image of (Greek) P. OXYRHYNCHUS.
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/VExhibition/vexhframe_hi.htm
[B_088,rvw] CATNYP# JFE 99-14441, "Astronomical papyri from
OXYRHYNCHUS : P. Oxy. 4133-4300a /
edited with translations and commentaries by Alexander Jones."
Philadelphia 1999.
[B_089,rvw] CATNYP# *OBKQ 76-254, "Location
list of the OXYRHYNCHUS papyri published
by the Egypt Exploration Society [ZPE] / compiled by R. A. Coles, London
1974.
[W_056,rvw] WATSON# 533.6 Eg9 v76. "The OXYRHYNCHUS papyri : volume LVI / edited with
translations and notes by M. G. Sirivianou, with contributions by H. C.
Gunther...[et al]." London, 1989.
(as per ZPE; D. Fowler)
Seek P. Oxy.
XXXIII 2656 and P. Oxy.
XLIX 3456.Math
content.
(as per Duke Univ.) Seek P.Oxy.
Census.
The Census Register P.Oxy.
984: The Reverse of Pindar's Paeans, ed. R.S. Bagnall, B.W. Frier and I.C.
Rutherford. (Pap.Brux. 29). Brussels
1997.
[B_180b,8.5,IMG,
v. 2] CATNYP# *OBQ+ 73-2731 t. 82,
“Hommages Serge Sauneron, Cairo, 1979.
See volume two, mention of P. Oxy. 34, 2721, 1.27, dated to 234 CE.
(as per E. G. Turner) AKA el-Bahnasa.
(as per EEF; A. Ayma)
Redford in his 'Pharaonic King-lists, Annals and Day-books'
(SSEA Publication IV, 1986) has two pages (pp.284-285) on
this
papyrus, with a brief outline but not the text. To only give
his
post-1950 references:
C.H. Roberts - Oxyrhynchus Papyri 22 (1954), pp. 86ff
L. Kakosy - in: Acta Or. 19 (1966) p.345
L. Koenen - in: ZPE 2 (1968) pp.178ff
J.W.Barnes - in:
Orientalia 46 (1977) pp. 31ff
Wildung - Imhotep und Amenhotep, p. 275
Apparantly Koenen and Barnes
are the most important
commentaries - perhaps anyone can suggest more recent ones?
I do not know which editions have the full text translation.
Wadell (commentary with Manetho Fr 54) says there are
editions
of the Greek papyrus by Wilcken (in: Hermes xl 1905, pp
544ff)
and Manteuffel (1930), but also here one would hope for
something
more recent.
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/sidebar/listbumf.htm
P.Oxy. 1.32. Latin letter to a tribunus militum:
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0181
P.Oxy.Descr.: Varia Descripta Oxyrhynchita
P.Oxy.Descr. 1.: (Greek)
See 2000 drachmas. Math.
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0179
P.Oxy.Hels.: Fifty Oxyrhynchus Papyri
P.Oxy.Hels. 8.:(Greek; 9 bce; Oxyrhynchus)
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.05.0180
Math content?
Great bibliography:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones/oxy/biblio.html
See LUGDUNO-BATAVA;
[B_447=O_012,NO
IMG,8.5]
[B_088,no copy,purchase]
“Astronomical papyri from OXYRHYNCHUS : P. Oxy. 4133-4300a
/ edited with translations and commentaries by Alexander Jones.”
Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1999.
See “Handy Tables” by PTOLEMY.
Roman period astronomical papyri from Egyptian nome.
ISSN 0065-9738 ; v. 233
ISBN {for APS Memoirs in general?} 0-87169-233-3 (cloth)
As
per personal correspondence 050004
Contact Professor Emeritus Asger Aaboe in pursuit of KESKINTO
Astronomical Inscription.
*Mr. Aaboe’s contact info:
http://scripts.its.yale.edu/cgi-bin/ph/directory.yale.edu?Query=asger+aaboe
and:
http://www.math.yale.edu/public_html/people/aaboe.htm
and his text for sale:
http://www.fetchbook.info/compare.do?search=0871698161
[filed with B_088,8.5,ZPE,1997,156-166]
“On the Reconstructed Macedonian and Egyptian Lunar Calendars.”
By Alexander Jones.
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/downloads/1997/119pdf/119157.pdf
Notes from above ZPE article:
Both Macedonian [Greek] and Egyptian Lunar calendars are assumed to be generated
by repeating cycles rather than by observation [of Full moons].
Conjectured cyclical reconstructions by Parker, Neugebauer and others are suspect but tend not to drift or vary by more than one day [from each other, not from the actual full moon] over periods of 300 years or more.
Calippic [assumes 19 years is 235 Lunar months] and Geminus [Drop each 64th day from assumed 30 day lunar months] cycles discussed and reference to further works by B. R. Goldstein and A. C. Bowen.
[Parker’s] Assumed constant of 25 Egyptian civil years [of 12 x 30 day months and 5 epagomenal days=365 days] is 309 lunar months.
See [dated to 180 BCE] Papyrus Ryland IV 589 for an alternate 25 year cycle.
See
also:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajones/ptolgeog/
(as per EEF; A. Barahona; 050204)
introducing:
«ISIS: BOLETÍN ESPAÑOL DE INVESTIGACIÓN EGIPTOLÓGICA»
ISSN 1576-7558,
Section Archaeology - AÑO VII-Vol. I (2004).
A new article <snip> entitled:
- "Últimos descubrimientos en el yacimiento arqueológico
de Oxirrinco
(El-Bahnasa), Egipto - Recent discoveries in the archaeological site of
Oxirhyncus (El-Bahnasa), Egypt. por Esther Pons Mellado.
Abstract:
Oxyrhynchus (El Bahnasa) is located on the Bahr Yussef, some
190 km. south of Cairo. It was discovered by Denon in 1798 and since 1992
the University of Barcelona works there. The Oxyrhynchus's area has three
parts: a Christian chapel with paintings, a Coptic-Saite Necropolis and
an underground structure dedicated to Osiris.
