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Several years ago, Jean-Luc Fournet drew my attention to an unpublished astronomical papyrus which is preserved in the Library of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) in Cairo (P. Fouad 267 A). This text appeared to me at once to be an interesting document, and we decided to make a joint publication. But I was far from guessing how difficult and important it would be. At first glance I believed that we had a fragment of an ordinary commentary on Ptolemy’s Handy Tables, or a fragment of an astrological treatise explaining with an example the use of the tables. But quickly I realized that we had here something rather different, a sophisticated document which has, to our knowledge, no equivalent in the astronomical material coming from late Antiquity.
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Tihon, A. (2010). An Unpublished Astronomical Papyrus Contemporary with Ptolemy. In: Jones, A. (eds) Ptolemy in Perspective. Archimedes, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2788-7_1
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