Eric Gardner Turner
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- PhD Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Eric Gardner Turner CBE was an English papyrologist and classicist. Turner was born in Broomhill, Sheffield. He was educated at King Edward VII School and Magdalen College, Oxford, and taught classics at the University of Aberdeen from 1936 to 1948, although from 1941 to 1945 he served in the Naval Intelligence Division at Bletchley Park. In 1948 he became first Reader in Papyrology at University College, London, and was promoted to professor in 1950. He retired in 1978.
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- Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (1973) (151)
- Tiberivs Ivlivs Alexander (1954) (102)
- Greek Papyri: An Introduction (1968) (96)
- The typology of the early codex (1977) (65)
- Oxyrhynchus and Rome (1975) (57)
- Recherches sur les armees Hellenistiques (1952) (47)
- Athenian books in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C : an inaugural lecture delivered at University College London, 22 May 1951 (1954) (34)
- Taxation in Roman Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (1939) (33)
- Catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume IV, Documents of the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods (1940) (33)
- The Charioteers from Antinoe (1973) (32)
- ATHENIANS LEARN TO WRITE: PLATO, PROTAGORAS 326 d (1965) (31)
- A Commander-In-Chief's Order from Saqqâra (1974) (30)
- Roman Oxyrhynchus (1952) (27)
- The Kurrah Papyri from Aphrodito in the Oriental Institute (1939) (22)
- An Oracle of Hermes Trismegistos at Saqqâra (1968) (20)
- Dramatic Representations in Graeco-Roman Egypt : how long do they continue ? (1963) (20)
- A Curse Tablet from Nottinghamshire (1963) (18)
- Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Vol. III. Theological and Literary Texts (1939) (18)
- A ptolemaic vineyard lease (1948) (15)
- Catalogue of Greek and Latin Papyri and Ostraca in the Possession of the University of Aberdeen (1941) (15)
- Complaint against a Policeman (1982) (13)
- Libri, editori e pubblico nel mondo antico : guida storica e critica (1977) (7)
- A Roman Writing Tablet from Somerset (1956) (6)
- The papyrologist at work (1973) (6)
- Untersuchungen zu den abstrakten Anredeformen und Hoflichkeitstiteln im Griechischen (1950) (6)
- Menander and the New Society of his Time (1979) (5)
- Die Constitutio Antoniniana (1959) (5)
- Paléographie romaine (1953) (5)
- Hibeh papyrus i 27: An early example of Greek arithmetical notation (1983) (5)
- Ménandre : sept exposés suivis de discussions (1970) (4)
- Two Unrecognised Ptolemaic Papyri (1956) (4)
- The Phasma of Menander (1969) (3)
- Recto and Verso (1954) (3)
- L'érudition alexandrine et les papyrus (1962) (3)
- Gymnasium debts and new moons (1949) (3)
- Oxyrhynchus and Its Papyri (1952) (3)
- M. Favre-Racouchot―unilaterale Variante (1990) (2)
- Prosopographia Ptolemaica (1957) (2)
- Retentate: a New Scientific Term (1959) (2)
- Greek Literary Hands 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (1956) (2)
- Ueber die Wirkungen der giftigen Gase auf Pflanzen (2)
- Papyrus 40 ‘della Raccolta Milanese’ (1950) (2)
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XIX (1949) (2)
- Greek and Latin Papyri from Qaṣr Ibrîm (1976) (2)
- Egyptian Cults (1955) (2)
- A Roman Writing-Tablet from London (1960) (2)
- Die Präfekten von Ägypten in der Römischen Kaiserzeit (1952) (2)
- Roman Provincial Administration (1939) (1)
- The lost beginning of Meander Misoumenos (1978) (1)
- Fuad I University Papyri (1950) (1)
- Classical Hand-List (1955) (1)
- Menander, Samia 385-390 Austin (170-175 Koe.) (1967) (1)
- Le milieu urbain dans la chôra égyptienne à l'époque ptolémaïque (1975) (1)
- The Girl from Samos, or the In-Laws by Menander (1974) (1)
- Les Archives de Sarapion et de ses fils (1966) (1)
- Ptolemaic bookhands and Lille Stesichorus (1980) (1)
- BERICHTE ÜBER DIE VERHANDLUNGEN DER SÄCHSISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN ZU LEIPZIG (1950) (1)
- Experimental‐Untersuchungen über einige Atomgewichte (1)
- An Augustan Document Recovered (1955) (1)
- Egypt and the Roman Empire: The ΔEKAΠPΩTOI (1936) (1)
- Excavations at Nessana: Vol. 2, Literary PapyriGriechische literarische Papyri. Berichte uber die Verhandlungen der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Phil-hist. Klasse 97 Band 5 Heft (1953) (1)
- Versuche über die Anwendbarkeit der vor Kurzem von Hrn. Prof. Döbereiner gemachten Entdeckung auf Eudiometrie (1)
- EMENDATIONS TO MENANDER'S DYSKOLOS (1959) (1)
- O Fortunatos Nimium Sua Si Bona Norint (1961) (1)
- The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, xxv (1961) (1)
- IX. The Principal Editions of Papyri (1968) (1)
- II. The Rediscovery of Papyrus (1968) (0)
- Papyrus Bodmer I. Iliade chants 5 and 6 (1956) (0)
- Book Review: Die Constitutio Antoniniana (1959) (0)
- CHAPTER 5. How a Codex Was Made Up (1977) (0)
- IV. Place of Origin and Place of Writing: The Geographical Distribution of Finds (1968) (0)
- NOTES ON THE PLATES (1968) (0)
- The Decipherment of Linear B . By John Chadwick. 8½ × 5½. Pp. x + 148. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1958. 18s. 6d. (1959) (0)
- List of Plates (1968) (0)
- (J.) Day and (C. W.) Keyes Tax Documents from Theadelphia. Papyri of the Second Century A.D. [Columbia Papyri, Greek series, V.]. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. (London: Oxford University Press.) Pp. xviii + 342, with 2 plates. 80s. (1958) (0)
- Book Review: Papiri Milanesi (P. Med.) I nn. 13–87 (1967) (0)
- Two Greek epigrams / Eric G. Turner. (1950) (0)
- Chartae Latinae Antiquiores. Part IV. Great Britain (Except British Museum) (1969) (0)
- I. Writing Materials and Books (1968) (0)
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri XX (1954) (0)
- Book Review: Prosopographia Ptolemaica (1961) (0)
- Jewish Papyri (1959) (0)
- V. How a Papyrus Text Is Edited (1968) (0)
- Acta Alexandrinorum (1955) (0)
- Ueber die Auffindung der Boraxsure in Mineralien mittelst des Lthrohrs (0)
- Ueber die Art, das Lithion in Mineralien mittelst des Löthrohrs zu entdecken (0)
- Ueber die Flüchtigkeit der Oxalsäure (0)
- Chemische Untersuchung des Isopyrs (0)
- Bemerkungen über die Oxalsäure (0)
- Ueber die chemische Zusammensetzung der in dem vorhergehenden Aufsatze beschriebenen Mineralien (0)
- Chemische Untersuchung der Manganerze (0)
- Beschreibung des Edingtonits, einer neuer Mineralspecies (0)
- I tempi della papirologia (a proposito di due manuali) (1987) (0)
- Daniele Foraboschi: Papiri della Università degli Studi di Milano VII (P. Mil. Vogliano 301–308). Pp. 1–112; 8 folding plates. Milan: La Goliardica, 1981. Paper. (1982) (0)
- I Resti dell' XI Libro del Peri Fusews di Epicuro (1946) (0)
- Papiri Milanesi (P. Med.) I nn. 13-87 (1967) (0)
- Milan papyri. Papiri Milanesi (P.Med.) I. nn. 1–12. 2nd ed. by S. Daris. (Pubblicazioni di ‘Aegyptus’, 1.) Milan: Vita e Pensiero. 1967. Pp. 43. 14 plates. Lire 1,900. (1968) (0)
- Rosario Pintaudi: Ipapiri vaticani greci di Aphrodito . (P. Vatic. Aphrod.) Vol. I: pp. 1–73; Vol. II: pp. 1–4 and 22 fold-out separate half-tone plates in case. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1980. Stiff paper, and cardboard case. (1982) (0)
- À propos de l'article sur « Ménandre inédit » (1969) (0)
- Actes du Ve Congrès international de Papyrologie (Oxford 3 août–3 Septembre 1937). Pp. xxix + 665; 6 pl. Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1938. 200 B. fcs. (1939) (0)
- (C.) Préaux Manifestation d'hommage à Mademoiselle Claire Préaux, 26 mai 1965. Brussels: Fédération Belge de Femmes Diplômées des Universités. 1966. Pp. ii + 64. Price not stated. (1967) (0)
- Prosopographia Ptolemaica, Vol. III. Le Clerge', le notariat, les tribunaux; Nos. 4984-8040 (1957) (0)
- I Resti dell' XI Libro del Περὶ Φύσεως di Epicuro (Publications de la Société Fouad I de Papyrologie, Textes et Documents, IV). By A. Vogliano (Ed.). Pp. x + 60. Cairo: Institut français d'Archéologie orientale, 1940. P.T. 30. (1946) (0)
- Claude Vandersleyen: Chronologie des préfets d'Égypte de 284 à 395. (Collection Latomus, lv.) Pp. 202. Brussels: Latomus, 1962. Paper, 300 B.fr. (1965) (0)
- Recherches sur les armées hellénistiques. II. Recherches sociologiques. By M. Launey. Pp. 674. Paris: de Boccard, 1950. Price not stated. (1953) (0)
- Mélanges Émile Boisacq (Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves, tomes V et VI, 1937–8). Brussels. (1939) (0)
- John Blundell: Menander and the Monologue. (Hypomnemata, 59.) Pp. 91. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1980. Paper. (1982) (0)
- Fuad I University Papyri (Publications de la Société Fouad I de Papyrologie, Textes et Documents VIII). Ed. by D. S. Crawford. Pp. vii + 138. Alexandria: Société Fouad Ier de Papyrologie, 1949. (1950) (0)
- L'Orient et la Grece antique (Histoire generale des Civilisations, Tome I) (1954) (0)
- Vae, Puto Deus Fio (1959) (0)
- Problèmes spéciaux dans les pays tropicaux (1989) (0)
- Recherches sur les armées Hellénistiques . By M. Launey. Pp. xi + 624. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1949. (1950) (0)
- The Grammar of Ptolemaic Papyri (1973) (0)
- Ueber die Wirkung verschiedener giftiger Gase auf die Vegetation; (0)
- Das griechisch-römische Altertum: Sonderdruck aus Handbuch der Bibliothekswissenschaft, 2te. Aufiage, 3te Band . By Carl Wendel, ergänzt von Willi Göber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1953. Pp. 95. Price not stated. (1954) (0)
- Chemische Untersuchung der schlagenden Wetter aus den Kohlengruben bei Newcastle (0)
- Jan-Olof Tjäder, Die Nichliterarischen Lateinischen Papyri Italiens aus Der Zeit 445–700 . I. Papyri 1–28 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet; Rom, 4°, XIX, 1), Tafeln (ibid, XIX, 3). Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1955. Price not stated. (1956) (0)
- Untersuchungen zu den abstrakten Anredeformen und Höflichkeitstiteln im Griechischen (Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum XV, 3). By H. Zilliacus. Pp. 111. Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1949. (1950) (0)
- Die frühe postoperative Phase (1992) (0)
- Peter Sattler, Griechische Papyrusurkunden und Ostraka der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung . (Veröff. d. Heidelb. Papyrussammlung, N. F. 3.) Pp. 56; 16 plates in pocket. Heidelberg: Winter, 1963. Paper, DM. 42. (1965) (0)
- Heidelberg Papyri (1957) (0)
- Midazolam zur intramuskulären Prämedikation und zur intravenösen Narkoseeinleitung: Ein klinischer Erfahrungsbericht (1984) (0)
- Non-Literary Latin Papyri (1957) (0)
- Ueber die Entdeckung des Lithions in Mineralien durch das Löthrohr (0)
- [Not Available]. (1990) (0)
- Herbert Musurillo: Acta Alexandrinorum. Pp. xii+94. Leipzig: Teubner, 1961. Cloth, DM. 8.80. (1963) (0)
- THE GEROUSIA OF OXYRHYNCHUS (1937) (0)
- Book Review: Apologie de Philéas (1966) (0)
- A PASSAGE IN THE APOLOGIA OF PHILEAS (1966) (0)
- Book Review: Ptolemaic Alexandria (1974) (0)
- NOTES TO CHAPTERS I-VIII (1968) (0)
- Classical Hand-list. By J. A. Nairn. Edited by B. H. Blackwell Ltd. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. viii + 164. Oxford: Blackwell, 1953. 12s. 6d. (1955) (0)
- (P.) Maas Textual Criticism. Translated by B. Flower. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1958. Pp. vii + 59. 12s. 6d. (1960) (0)
- Letter From Eric Gardner Turner to Emmett L. Bennett Jr., February 3, 1958 (1958) (0)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LINEAR ‘B’ (1955) (0)
- (C. H.) Roberts. The Codex [Proc. Brit. Acad. XL] . London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1955. Pp. 36, with 1 plate. 4s. 6d. (1957) (0)
- Clinical research: impact on attitudes in a gerontologic setting. (1983) (0)
- J. A. Nairn, Classical Hand-List , edited by B. H. Blackwell, Ltd. 3rd Edition, revised and enlarged. Oxford: Blackwell, 1953. Pp. VIII + 164. 12s. 6d. (1954) (0)
- Menander's Aspis and Samia (1971) (0)
- Race in Ancient Egypt (1953) (0)
- ΑΝΟΣΙΟΙ ΙΟϒΔΑΙΟΙ - V. A. Tcherikover and A. Fuks: Corpus Papyrorum Iudaicarum , vol. ii. Pp. xvi+283. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (London: Oxford University Press), 1960. Cloth, 96 s . net. (1961) (0)
- Notice of Recent Publication (1954) (0)
- The beginning and the date of P.Ryl. IV. 586 (Plate I) (1953) (0)
- Apologie de Phileas (1966) (0)
- Latin Papyri (1948) (0)
- Egypt H. Idris Bell: Egypt from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest . Pp. vii+168. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948. Cloth, 10s. net. (1949) (0)
- Prosopographia Ptolemaica V (1966) (0)
- Letter From Eric Gardner Turner to Emmett L. Bennett Jr., October 9, 1958 (1958) (0)
- C. B. Welles, R. O. Fink, and J. F. Gilliam, The Excavations at Dura-Europos. Final report V, I. The Parchments and Papyri . New Haven : Yale U.P. (London : Oxford U.P.), 1959. Pp. XXVIII + 457, 71 plates. £12. (1960) (0)
- Herbert Chayyim Youtie and John Garrett Winter, Papyri and Ostraca from Karanis, second Series (Michigan Papyri, Vol. VIII). Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1951. Pp. XXII + 266, with 11 collotype plates. $12.50. (1952) (0)
- A. H. M. Jones, The Greek City from Alexander to Justinian . Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1940. Pp. viii + 393. 21s. (1944) (0)
- The Papyrologist at Work. The J. H. Gray Lectures Given at the University of Cambridge 1971 (1975) (0)
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part XIX . Ed. E. Lobel, E. P. Wegener, C. H. Roberts, and H. I. Bell. Pp. xiv + 180; pl. 13. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1948. 50s. (1949) (0)
- New plays of Menander (1959) (0)
- SB 5174, 5175: Some Corrections (1952) (0)
- "Greek Papyri : an Introduction", E. G. Turner, Oxford 1968 ; "Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World", E. G. Turner, Oxford 1971 : [recenzja] / Anna Świderek. (1974) (0)
- P. Aberdeen 133 and P. Berlin 6866 (1947) (0)
- Rome and Egypt (1953) (0)
- III. Excavating for Papyri: The Organization of their Study (1968) (0)
- Letter From Eric Gardner Turner to Emmett L. Bennett Jr., March 2, 1964 (1960) (0)
- Preface to the First Edition, 1958: Preface to the Second Edition, 1974 (1974) (0)
- Papyrus Bodnaer I. niade chants 5 and 6. Ed. V. MARTIN . Pp. 90, with 6 plates. Cologny-Geneva: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1954. Sw.fr. 10. (1956) (0)
- PLACE NAMES IN PYLOS TABLETS1 (1954) (0)
- List of Books and Abbreviations (1977) (0)
- VII. Papyri and Greek Literature (1968) (0)
- Naphtali Lewis: Leitourgia Papyri . Documents on Compulsory Public Service in Egypt under Roman Rule. (Transactions of the American Philosὸphical Society, vol. 53, part 9.) Pp. 39; 5 figs. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1963. Paper, $1.50. (1965) (0)
- Book Review: Les Archives de Sarapion et de ses fils (1966) (0)
- CHAPTER 4. Manufacture and Size (1977) (0)
- CHAPTER 1. Towards a Typology of the Codex (1977) (0)
- Book Review: Documenti per la storia dell'esercito romano in Egitto (1965) (0)
- Book Review: Prosopographia Ptolemaica (1966) (0)
- Book Review: The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces (1939) (0)
- VIII. Types of Papyrus Document (1968) (0)
- The Oxyrhynchus papyri, xxvii (1964) (0)
- Papyri from Antinoopolis (1952) (0)
- CHAPTER 6. The Codex and the Scribe (1977) (0)
- CHAPTER 7. The Form and Date of the Earliest Codices (1977) (0)
- Book Review: Taxation in Roman Egypt from Augustus to Diocletian (1939) (0)
- Excavations at Dura-Europos. Final Report V, I. The parchments and papyri. By C. B. Welles, R. O. Fink, and J. F. Gilliam. Pp. xxviii + 457 + 71 pls. New Haven: Yale U. P., 1959. n.p. (1960) (0)
- VI. The Persons who Owned the Papyri in Antiquity (1968) (0)
- Book Review: Chartae Latinae Antiquiores (1969) (0)
- A. Bruckner and R. Marichal, Chartae Latinae Antiquiores Part III. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1963. Pp. xii + 140 in folio, 62 litho-offset plates. Price not stated. (1966) (0)
- Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava VIII: Nomina Sacra in the Greek Papyri of the First Five Centuries A.D. (1960) (0)
- The Papyri of Xenophon (1973) (0)
- Modular nursing. (1978) (0)
- Papyri : Greek & Egyptian (1981) (0)
- CHAPTER 3. The Priority of Parchment or Papyrus (1977) (0)
- CHAPTER 2. The Dimensions of Papyrus and Parchment Codices (1977) (0)
- ‘Apollo Musagetes Summons Me to Dance’ (1963) (0)
- Paper and Books in Ancient Egypt. By J. Černý. Pp. 36. London: H. K. Lewis and Co. Ltd. 1952. 6s (1954) (0)
- Book Review: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava VIII: A. H. R. E. PAAP (1960) (0)
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