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431. Papyrus 485

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 485
Title:
Euripides, Antiope (P.Petr. I 1-2, P.Lond.Lit. 70, TM 59927, LDAB 1037, MP3 433)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a roll from mummy cartonnage, with the end of Euripides’ Antiope: Zetus and Amphion, sons of Zeus and Antiope, have killed Dirce; king Lycus enters, eager to capture Antiope. Hermes appears and commands Lycus to relinquish his power to Antiope’s sons.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Three larger fragments with three detached scraps from a papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, with surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of four columns, each of 36-37 lines, for a total of 112 lines; the column’s height is 165 mm. Part of the upper and lower margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

432. Papyrus 486

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 486
Title:
Miscellaneous Literary Texts (TM 60165, 61233, 62771, 62675)
Scope & Content:
Upper left papyrus (A) (P.Petr. I 3(1), P.Lond.Lit. 57, 71, TM 62675): Gnomic anthology with quotations arranged by topic, quoting Ps.-Epicharmus and Euripides. Assigned to the first three quarters of the 3rd century BC. Upper right papyrus (B) (P.Petr. I 3(2), P.Lond.Lit. 79, TM 62771): Fragme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC-2nd century BC
Extent:

Four papyrus fragments that do not belong together, extracted from mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.

Upper left papyrus (A): Upper portion of a papyrus, complete at the top, broken off on the other sides; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 9 lines; the upper margin is extant. The back is blank.

Upper right papyrus (B): Papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres and preserving the foot of a column, with the beginnings of 18 lines. The back is blank.

Lower left papyrus (C): Papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom. The back is blank.

Lower right papyrus (D): Light-brown papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of two adjacent columns of 20 and 19 lines respectively. The lower margin survives partly. The back is blank.

433. Papyrus 487(A)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 487(A)
Title:
New Comedy (P.Petr. I 4(1), P.Lond.Lit. 90, P.Lond. III 487(a) descr., TM 61586, LDAB 2735, MP3 1662)
Scope & Content:
Fragment with portions of two columns from a new comedy, presumably Menander’s Hydria, with part of a dialogue; the name Demeas occurs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Papyrus fragment reused as mummy cartonnage, with surface damage in places; broken off at the top and sides; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The feet of two columns are preserved; of the first column, 13 lines lacking the beginnings survive; of the second few letters of the beginnings of 9 lines; with part of the lower margin and intercolumn. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

434. Papyrus 487(B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 487(B)
Title:
Archilochus (P.Petr. I 4(2), P.Lond.Lit. 55, P.Lond. III 487(b) descr., TM 59238, LDAB 334, MP3 131)
Scope & Content:
Papyrus fragment from cartonnage with tetrameters from an unknown work of Archilochus.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Papyrus fragment reused as mummy cartonnage, with surface damage and holes; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of two columns survive; of the first, only the ends of the lines remain; the second is much obliterated, although it has fairly complete lines. Intercolumn and upper margin survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

435. Papyrus 488

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 488
Title:
Plato, Phaedo (P.Petr. I 5-8, TM 62649, LDAB 3835, MP3 1388), and Fragment of a Comedy (P.Lond.Lit. 254, TM 65743, LDAB 6997, MP3 1635)
Scope & Content:
Fragments of a roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, preserving portions of Plato’s Phaedo 67B-84B and a few lines from an Old Comedy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in four glass frames, named Papyrus 488(1), Papyrus 488(2), Papyrus 488(3), Papyrus 488(4). The fragments bear writing on one side along the fibres. Portions of 18 columns survive, each column having an average of 22 lines. Each column measures 145 x 70 mm; the upper margin measures 30 mm, the lower 40 mm. A small fragment of lighter colour in Papyrus 488(3) belongs to another roll.

436. Papyrus 489

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 489
Title:
Collection of Barbaric Customs (P. Lond. Lit. 112; P. Petrie I. 9; TM 59306; Mertens-Pack3 2183)
Scope & Content:
Fragments of a collection of Nomima Barbarika attributable to Nymphodorus of Amphipolis or Dionysius of Heraclea.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Six fragments of a roll, writing on one side only along the fibres, mounted in glass.

437. Papyrus 490

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 490
Title:
Fragment of a Rhetorical Text (P.Petr. I 10, P.Lond.Lit. 137, TM 65744, LDAB 6998, MP3 2523)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a rhetorical composition praising Achilles and his devotion to Patroclus as the best example of philetairia; recovered from mummy cartonnage.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Portion of a papyrus roll, broken off at the bottom and sides, somewhat torn at the top; from mummy cartonnage, with surface damage; bearing writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of three columns remain; of the first, only the line-ends survive. Part of the upper margin and the intercolumns survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

438. Papyrus 491

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 491
Title:
Will of Peisias (P.Petr.2 I 13, P.Petr. I 12, P.Petr. III 9, TM 47308)
Scope & Content:
Copy of the will of Peisias, a Lycian military settler with land in the Arsinoite nome, who makes provisions for Pisicrates, his son from his first marriage, and for his wife Axiothea. He bequeaths to Pisicrates an apartment house in Alexandria with furniture and some Syrian slaves; his wife is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
238-237 BC
Extent:

Two fragments of a sheet from a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and damaged by holes especially in the left-hand portion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; there is one column of 24 lines; few letters of a second column are visible at the bottom right. A sheet-join runs across the fibres in the right edge; another sheet was originally glued on the left, as indicated by the paler strip on the left edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

439. Papyrus 492

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 492
Title:
Wills (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. I 17(1-2), P.Petr. III 10-11, 14-17, P.Lond. III 492a descr., TM 47309; P.Petr.2 I 9, P.Petr. I 17(3), P.Petr. III 8(1), P.Lond. III 492b descr., TM 47306)
Scope & Content:
Register listing wills, reused as mummy cartonnage. Upper fragments and lower left fragment (A) (P.Petr.2 I 16, SB XIV 11306, P.Petr. I 17(1-2), P.Petr. III 10-11, 14-17, P.Lond. III 492a descr., TM 47309): Portions of a roll listing wills for the year 236-235 BC. Additional fragments preservin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
238-235 BC
Extent:

Fragments of papyrus sheets reused as mummy cartonnage from the same register; written on one side along the fibres and mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Upper fragments and lower left fragment (A): Fragments from two consecutive sheets of the same roll; the upper fragments join at the bottom right and preserve 25 lines of one column, with line 12 being lost. The lower fragment contains the bottom left corner of the second column, with the beginnings of 19 lines.

There are 9 additional fragments preserving further portions of these two columns and of a third consecutive column: these are BL Papyrus 596(a-b), and the papyri in Trinity College, Dublin, inventoried as FF4 (5 fragments), FF6, F30. Trinity College FF6 joins BL Papyrus 492A at the top right, and preserves the middle portions of the first 10 lines. BL Papyrus 596b joins with BL Papyrus 492A at the bottom, and contains 20 lines from the lower left part of column 1; one of the fragments inventoried as Trinity College FF4 and F30 joins with BL Papyrus 492A, lower fragment.

Lower right fragment (B): Broken off on all sides, with portions of 19 lines; no margin survives. A sheet-join runs across the fibres at c. 5 mm. from the right edge.

440. Papyrus 493

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 493
Title:
Wills (P.Petr.2 I 24, P.Petr. I 19, Chrest.Mitt. 301, P.Lond. III 493 descr., TM 47313)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a register of wills. Column 1, lines 1-14: Conclusion of a will, with the list of witnesses. The name of the testator is lost. Line 15-end: Will of Aphrodisius, who makes provisions for his wife Axiothea. The names of the witnesses follow. Column 2: Traces of another will, all deta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
226-225 BC
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the sides, with residues of plaster and red paint, and surface damage in places; writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are portions of two columns: the first column has 38 lines, lacking the beginnings; the second is badly mutilated, and only few letters from the beginnings of few lines survive. Upper and lower margins are extant. Two sheet-joins run from top to bottom, one in the middle of column one, and the other in the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

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