liturgical text [early VI century]BasilAPIScolumbia.apis.766(NNC)aaa09345935659356tm;;59356O.Col.inv.766 (acc. 64.11.106)Basil of Caesarea, fragment from the Homily "Attende tibi ipsi," HAtt. [3] 32.6-17 Rudberg, either a school exercise, a text copied for personal use, a text part of a homiliary, or some kind of memento reminding monks of their mortality and the need of self-knowledge15 lines of writing on the front, back blankincomplete on the top and on the rightsince the line beginnings are preserved the original text can be reconstructed and it appears that the text was quite largerough breathings, acute, circumflex, grave accents and diaeresis are marked; a few corrections; sometimes the circumflex accents are marked as gravewritten in an informal irregular hand, "rapid"in Greek1 ostracon ; limestone ; 8.7 x 11.5
from Thebes, Deir el Bahri, excavated by the Metropolitan Museum in 1926-29, Burton photo M10C 17.Formerly property of the Metropolitan Museum, sold to Columbia University in 1958
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.Englishin GreekOstraca
R . Cribiore, "Akten XXI Congress" pp. 187-93, pl. 1.2