Daniela Colomo
University of Oxford, Classics, Department Member
- Paleography, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Ancient Education, Classics, Ancient magic, Paraliterary Papyri, and 21 moreIsocrates Textual Criticism, Reception of Classical Heritage, Papyrology, Callimachus Scholia Paraliterary Papyri, Iatromagic Charm, Languages and Linguistics, Early Christianity, New Testament, Philology, Composition and Rhetoric, Classical philology, History of the Book, Greek Tragedy, Greek Patristics, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Rhetoric (Languages and Linguistics), History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, Reception, Greek Paleography, and History of Medicineedit
- I was born and educated in Sardinia, which I left to attend University at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where... moreI was born and educated in Sardinia, which I left to attend University at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where I obtained my first degree in Classics. Next I moved to Oxford, where I completed a DPhil in Greek Papyrology. I have international experience in research and teaching: I have worked at the University of Leuven and University of Leipzig and have been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Cologne. I am currently Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford, Curator of the Oxyrhynnchus Papyri Collection and a member of the team editing the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series. I also offer informal tuition in Papyrology, especially to students taking the Papyrological Exam Option in their MSt course at Oxford, and act as a co-supervisor for doctoral students working on topics related to Papyrology.
The focus of my research concerns Greek rhetorical papyri – especially handbooks, compositions by schoolboys and more advanced students, models composed by schoolmasters and even sketchy notes by teachers for the preparation of their classes – which illustrate the process of teaching and learning public speaking in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine world. Moreover, I have been working on the transmission of Isocrates’ text with focus on the papyrological evidence, taking part in the joint project to produce a new Oxford Classical Texts edition of the entire Isocrates corpus (forthcoming 2019). I am also interested in other types of papyri and related topics: papyri of poetry and related scholia and commentaries, in particular on Homer and Callimachus, early Christian texts, magical texts, Acta Alexandrinorum and documentary texts, including Coptic papyri.
I have been invited to lecture and teach workshops by many UK and European universities and academic institutions: King’s College London, British Academy (London), Egypt Exploration Society (London), University of Durham, University of Edinburgh, University of Liverpool, University of Newcastle, University of Reading, University of Cambridge, Fondation Hardt (Geneva), Université de Liège, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice), Venice International University, Università degli Studi di Padova, Università degli Studi di Udine, Università di Bologna, Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), Università La Sapienza (Rome), Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Università Federico II (Naples), Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Università degli Studi di Messina, Istituto Papirologico G. Vitelli (Florence), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Universidad de Salamanca, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Berlin), Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität (Frankfurt am Main), Julius-Maximilians-Universität (Würzburg), Universität zu Köln, Universität Leipzig, Università di Pavia, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.edit
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The Milan Papyrus - of which this volume offers a superb editio princeps - represents a sensational discovery, showing once again how much the recovery of papyri can contribute to the patrimo-ny of Greek literature with important works... more
The Milan Papyrus - of which this volume offers a superb editio princeps - represents a sensational discovery, showing once again how much the recovery of papyri can contribute to the patrimo-ny of Greek literature with important works which were lost in antiquity. PMil. ...
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P.Oxy. 2288, a 2nd-century fragment containing Sappho's Ode to Aphrodite, has an underlying layer of papyrus that has intrigued scholars for decades. X-ray tomography of the papyrus and a study of the ink under the scanning electron... more
P.Oxy. 2288, a 2nd-century fragment containing Sappho's Ode to Aphrodite, has an underlying layer of papyrus that has intrigued scholars for decades. X-ray tomography of the papyrus and a study of the ink under the scanning electron microscope allow us to establish that the underlying layer most likely does not contain more of Sappho's poetry. Rather, it appears that P.Oxy. 2288 is what remains of a much-used roll of Sappho book 1, reinforced at its beginning. In order to put this case in its historical context, the second part of the article contains a new examination of the literary, documentary, and papyrological evidence for ancient repairs and reinforcements of bookrolls.
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Edition of P.CtYBR inv. 4673, a set of unpublished fragments from the Yale papyrus collection. The text on the recto is a paraliterary work with quotations from the Iliad on the topic of Achilles' armour, while on the verso are remains of... more
Edition of P.CtYBR inv. 4673, a set of unpublished fragments from the Yale papyrus collection. The text on the recto is a paraliterary work with quotations from the Iliad on the topic of Achilles' armour, while on the verso are remains of a glossary to Iliad 5. Since the hands look to be roughly contemporary, both sides of the roll were in use in the same period, suggesting it was used in some kind of educational context.
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Quantity marks are rather uncommon in prose texts surviving on papyrus. This paper offers a comprehensive survey, including literary, subliterary and documentary papyri, and tries to explain their possible function(s) in these different... more
Quantity marks are rather uncommon in prose texts surviving on papyrus. This paper offers a comprehensive survey, including literary, subliterary and documentary papyri, and tries to explain their possible function(s) in these different texts. In many cases these marks do not seem to carry out the simple function of helping the reader in articulating the text written in scriptio continua by avoiding possible ambiguity between homographs, but may indicate an intention to provide grammatical and linguistic information on specific words, and perhaps – at least in some cases – may reveal a concern for correct pronunciation. Each papyrus containing quantity marks has been examined in relation to its palaeographical and bibliological features, some of which clearly point to a school environment.
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'Fragment of a Business Letter', in M. R. M. Hasitzka (Hrsg.), Koptische dokumentarische und literarische Texte. First International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology 2006 in der Papyrussammlung der österreichen Nationalbibliothek , Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Bd. 31, Wien 2011, no. 11, pp. 23-29.more
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This contribution investigates the possible meaning(s) of an alleged hapax legomenon – entyligma – that occurs in a list of cloth items from the 6th century AD, P.Münch. III 142. The same word has been proposed as an emendation in... more
This contribution investigates the possible meaning(s) of an alleged hapax legomenon – entyligma – that occurs in a list of cloth items from the 6th century AD, P.Münch. III 142. The same word has been proposed as an emendation in Hesychius k 2543, accepted by Kurt Latte in his edition of Hesychius. The word entyligma may indicate wrapping, packaging material, a cover, or even a piece of cloth like a shroud or a sock.
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... mengeh?rte. Leipzig Daniela Colomo Reinhold Scholl 10 Zum Modius vgl. R. Duncan-Jones, The Choinix, the Artaba and the Modius, ZPE 21 (1976) 53-62; J. Jahn, Zum Rauminhalt von artaba und castrensis modius, ZPE 38 (1980) 223-228.
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In the course of studying P.Oxy. 2288, a reinforced strip of Sappho book 1, we became interested in the repair of bookrolls in antiquity, and soon learned how limited scholarly knowledge on the subject is. A mostly-overlooked source is... more
In the course of studying P.Oxy. 2288, a reinforced strip of Sappho book 1, we became interested in the repair of bookrolls in antiquity, and soon learned how limited scholarly knowledge on the subject is.
A mostly-overlooked source is P.Fam.Tebt. 15, a document that reports a court case surrounding the transfer of an archive in poor condition. Inadvertently, it gives us a rare insight in the reality and terminology of book damage and repair in Graeco-Roman Egypt.
In this paper we provide an overview of the literary, documentary, and papyrological evidence for ancient conservation practices, and look forward to input from the audience about further cases of ancient repairs, especially of documents.
A mostly-overlooked source is P.Fam.Tebt. 15, a document that reports a court case surrounding the transfer of an archive in poor condition. Inadvertently, it gives us a rare insight in the reality and terminology of book damage and repair in Graeco-Roman Egypt.
In this paper we provide an overview of the literary, documentary, and papyrological evidence for ancient conservation practices, and look forward to input from the audience about further cases of ancient repairs, especially of documents.
