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2691. Papyrus 483

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 483
Title:
Lease of Land (P.Lond. II 483, TM 19997)
Scope & Content:
Perpetual lease (emphyteusis) of arable and uncultivated land between Menas, acting on behalf of the monastery of Abba Patois, and Aurelius Ioannes, son of Phoebammon and Hypateia. Details about the rent and the tenant’s rights are provided. With signatures of the parties and of four witnesses a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
5 August 615 or 616
Extent:

Papyrus roll of fine quality and light colour, mounted on cardboard in three glass frames, named Papyrus 483(1), Papyrus 483(2), and Papyrus 483(3).

Writing runs on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. The first sheet of the roll displays horizontal fibres. There is one column of 104 lines, complete, with all margins extant. The right margin is minimal. Sheet-joins are visible throughout.

2692. Papyrus 484

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 484
Title:
Miscellaneous Texts (TM 28056-28057, 37017, 59210, 63512, 63525)
Scope & Content:
A (TM 28056): Second-century money account, unpublished. B (TM 37017): Fragment of a sixth-century contract, with subscription. Unpublished. C (TM 63512, LDAB 4721, MP3 2847): Fragment in prose; 2nd century; unpublished. D (P.Lond.Lit. 88, TM 63525, LDAB 4734, MP3 1675): Fragment of a comedy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century-6th century
Extent:

Six papyrus fragments not belonging together, mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

A: Medium-brown papyrus sheet, complete but with surface damage throughout; written on one side along the fibres. The back is blank. On the front, there are 21 lines written along the fibres, abraded in places; the margins survive.

B: Medium-brown papyrus fragment, partly complete at the bottom, broken off on all other sides; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears portions of 15 lines; the lower margin partly survives. The back is blank.

C: Medium-brown papyrus fragment, displaying insect-holes; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears portions of 19 lines. The back is blank.

D: Narrow strip of papyrus, written on one side along the fibres; the front bears the first few letters of 18 lines; traces of the preceding columns remain.

E: Medium-brown papyrus fragment; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears a few letters from the beginnings of 14 lines. The back is blank.

F: Fragment from a medium-brown papyrus, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears portions of 8 lines, lacking beginnings and ends; a scant trace of another line at the bottom is visible. The upper margin survives. The back is blank.

2693. 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.

2694. 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.

2695. 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.

2696. 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.

2697. 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.

2698. 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.

2699. 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.

2700. 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.

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