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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Papyrus 1-3136 Name Bacchylides, lyric poet, 5th century BC Level [40] File

1. Papyrus 733

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 733
Title:
Bacchylides’ Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs (TM 59339, LDAB 438, MP3 175)
Scope & Content:
Twenty odes by Bacchylides arranged in thirty-nine columns, either complete or imperfect; the number of lines for each column varies from thirty-two to thirty-six. Detached fragments are housed in a separate frame (Papyrus 733 (5)), most of them belonging to four further columns to be placed bef...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:

Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres; thirty-nine columns survive, with fragments of four additional columns to be placed before the first one preserved in Papyrus 733 (1); each columns has an average of 34-35 lines and measures c. 175 x 110 mm; twenty odes are preserved, seven of which are perfect or nearly so; substantial portions of eight remain; mere fragments of five survive. Accents, breathings, punctuation and other writing aids were supplied by the four hands which intervened in the text; paragraphoi are also usually noted. PSI XII 1278 contains further fragments of the text.

2. Papyrus 2056

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2056
Title:
Bacchylides, Dithyramb XVII, with title tag (P.Oxy VIII 1091, P.Lond.Lit. 47, TM 59341, LDAB 440, MP3 177)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a roll containing Bacchylides’s Dithyramb XVII 47−78 (largest fragment) and XVII 91−92 (detached fragment); with parchment title-tag (sillybos) still in its original position reading ‘Dithyrambs of Bacchylides’, written over another original title, still visible, which referred to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:
Portion of a papyrus roll, with detached fragment, light-coloured, overall well-preserved; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears portions of one column and the upper margin; the detached fragment contains traces of two lines from the foot of a column, and the lower margin. At a later stage, a parchment tag was attached onto the verso, at the top of the roll, with two lines on the outer side. The tag is a palimpsest, as remnants of three earlier lines are visible. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

3. Papyrus 2443

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2443
Title:
Bacchylides’ Encomia (?) with scholia (P.Oxy. XI 1361+P.Oxy. XVII 2081(e), P.Lond.Lit. 48, TM 59337, LDAB 436, MP3 179)
Scope & Content:
Fifty-one fragments (numbered as 1-48; three additional fragments, now named ‘New fr.’, ‘New fr. 1’, ‘New fr. 2’ in the frames, were later published in P.Oxy. XVII 2081(e)), containing parts of Bacchylides’ Encomia (?) (= Fr. 20, 20A-E) with scholia in a different hand. The title added in the le...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century BC-1st century
Extent:

Forty-eight numbered fragments and three further fragments named ‘New fr.’, ‘New fr. 1’ and ‘New fr. 2’ of varying size, all coming from a papyrus roll, darker in places, especially on the back. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank apart from modern numbering. Only fragments 1, 4 and 5 are of fair size: fragment 1 contains portions of 23 lines of a column and part of the upper margin, joining fragments 2, 3 and 22; fragment 4, which joins fragments 13, 24, 46 48, preserves parts of another column and of the upper and lower margins; fragment 5, which joins fragment 6 and a fragment named as 'new fragment’, has portions of two columns; of the first column, very few letters are preserved by fragment 29. The other fragments are of small size and come from different parts of columns. The surface is damaged by wormholes and abraded in places; occasionally, strips of fibres are missing. The fragments are housed in four glass cases named Papyrus 2443(1), Papyrus 2443(2), Papyrus 2443(3), and Papyrus 2443(4).

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