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Project / Collection Greek Manuscripts Place Ankyropolis (El-Hiba, El-Hibeh), 20th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt

1. Papyrus 384

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 384
Title:
Petition to the Prefect of Egypt (P.Lond. II 384, P.Vet. Aelii 10, ChLA III 201, TM 31217)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a Greek petition issued by the veteran Aelius Syrion to an unnamed prefect of Egypt, in which he complains about misdeeds and fraud in some commercial transactions concerning oil and wheat. At the top of the document, there are remains remains of a Latin text, perhaps the prefect’s an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
222-255
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus roll. The document is written on the recto, along the fibres; portions of one column, 35 lines. The verso is blank. The top margin is lost. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

2. Papyrus 688

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 688
Title:
Tragedy (P.Grenf. II 1, P.Lond.Lit. 80, P.Lond. III 688 descr., TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP3 1708)
Scope & Content:
Fragments from the same roll as Papyrus 1822, containing trimeters from a tragedy: post-classical? or Euripides’ Oeneus?
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Three fragments of varying size from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 1822, reused as mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Upper left fragment (A.1): Portions of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom; lacking beginnings and ends; no margin extant.

Upper right fragment (A.2): Small fragment with few letters from three lines, wanting beginnings and ends; part of the upper margin survives.

Lower fragment (B): Layer of horizontal fibres lost at the top; traces of two columns; of the first, the ends of 8 lines survive; of the second column, only scant traces from the beginnings of few lines.

3. Papyrus 690(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 690(A-B)
Title:
Sophocles, Niobe (P.Grenf. II 6(a), TM 62769), and Fragments of a Play (P.Grenf. II 6(c), TM 65718)
Scope & Content:
Fragments extracted from mummy cartonnage. A (P.Grenf. II 6(a), P.Lond.Lit. 68, TM 62769, LDAB 3957): Fragments of Sophocles’s Niobe, with the goddess Artemis killing the daughters of Niobe. P.Hib. I 11 is another fragment of the same papyrus. B (P.Grenf. II 6(c), P.Lond.Lit. 82, TM 65718, LDA...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Six papyrus fragments recovered from mummy cartonnage, housed in the same glass frame.

A: Four fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres. On the front, each fragment preserves the middle of a column. The back bears traces of plaster of the painted decoration. Another fragment of the same roll has been published as P.Hib. I 11 and is now at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

B: Two small fragments, broken off on all sides, written on one side along the fibres. Each fragment preserves portions of a few lines (7 and 8 lines respectively) running along the fibres. The back is blank.

4. Papyrus 691(A-B)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 691(A-B)
Title:
Gnomic Anthology (P.Grenf. II 6(b), TM 65719), and a Comedy (?) (P.Lond.Lit. 93, TM 65749)
Scope & Content:
Upper left-hand fragment (A) (P.Grenf. II 6(b), P.Lond.Lit. 83, TM 65719, LDAB 6973): Portion of a gnomic anthology in iambic trimeters (interpreted previously as an unknown tragedy); assigned to the middle of the 3rd century BC. Papyrus 2989 (P.Hib. II 224), and P. Heid. inv. G. 434 may be furt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Six fragments recovered from mummy cartonnage, not all belonging together; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

Upper left-hand fragment (A): Fragment of a light-brown papyrus roll, with darker patch at the bottom, extracted from mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears portions of 20 lines lacking beginnings and ends; letters are between 2 and 4 mm high; interlinear space is 3 mm on average. The lower margin survives to 15 mm. The back is blank. Papyrus 2989 and a papyrus in Heidelberg (inventoried as G 434), may belong to the same roll.

Upper right-hand fragment (B): Light-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides, with portions of 14 lines written along the fibres. The back is blank.

Fragments at the bottom: varying size, with a few letters on one side along the fibres, or covered with plaster and illegible. Back blank.

5. Papyrus 692

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 692
Title:
Epicurus, Unknown Work (P.Grenf. II 7(a), P.Lond.Lit. 158, TM 59757, LDAB 861, MP3 2575)
Scope & Content:
Two columns of an unknown philosophical work, attributed to Epicurus; from mummy cartonnage. The back bears traces of writing, unpublished.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Papyrus fragment from mummy cartonnage, originally covered with painted plaster; with traces of writing on both sides. On the front, there are portions of two columns running along the fibres; the first is faint. On the back, there remain traces of writing, illegible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with an opening for the text on the back.

6. Papyrus 693

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 693
Title:
Lyric Fragments (P.Grenf. II 8(a), P.Lond.Lit. 49, TM 62930, LDAB 4122, MP3 1538)
Scope & Content:
Lyric fragments attributed to Timotheus; part of the same roll as P.Baden VI 178.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Two fragments of the same papyrus roll as P.Baden VI 178, housed in Heidelberg; from mummy cartonnage; broken off on all sides, with writing along the fibres on the front, the back being blank. The left fragment bears portions of 7 lines from the bottom of a column; the right fragment bears parts of 9 lines from the bottom of a column. No margin survives. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.

7. Papyrus 694

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 694
Title:
Comedy (P.Grenf. II 8(b), TM 65750, LDAB 7004, MP3 1661)
Scope & Content:
Two fragments from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, containing portions of an unknown comic play. The attribution of the text to Philemon has been debated, as well as the suggestion that it may belong to Papyrus 1823 (see Körte, ‘Literarische Texte’ (1941)).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Two fragments from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, covered with plaster residue in places; written on one side along the fibres and preserving the tops of two columns written along the fibres. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

8. Papyrus 1821

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1821
Title:
Pseudo-Epicharmus, Maxims (P.Hib. I 1, P.Lond.Lit. 56, TM 62668, LDAB 3856, MP3 363)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a roll from mummy cartonnage, containing the prologue to a gnomic anthology in verses of Pseudo-Epicharmus (Axiopistus?), collecting maxims to be used on various occasions and possibly arranged by subject.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Fragment of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and left; with writing on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are 26 lines written along the fibres; upper and right margins survive. The annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

9. Papyrus 1823

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1823
Title:
Fragments of a Comedy (Menander's Hydria?) (P.Hib. I 5ro., TM 61587) and Fragments of a Glossary (P.Hib. I 5 vo., TM 61252)
Scope & Content:
Fragments of a roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, further portions of which are now in the Institut für Papyrologie in Heidelberg, inventoried as P. G 406), and at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, inventoried as Gr. 16a. Recto (TM 61587, LDAB 2736): Fragments of a comedy, preserving a d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Six fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll recovered from mummy cartonnage, with insect holes and plaster residue in places. Further fragments of the same roll are now held in the Institut für Papyrologie in Heidelberg, inventoried as P. G 406), and at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, inventoried as Gr. 16a. The largest fragment is written on both sides, and bears portions of 3 columns on the front, and remains of 2 columns on the back; the other smaller fragments are written on the front only; fragments B and C preserve portions of 2 columns, while fragments D-F contain parts of a few lines. Fragment E has a dark strain on the back. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.

10. Papyrus 1824

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1824
Title:
Fragments of a New Comedy (P.Hib. I 6, P.Lond.Lit. 89, TM 65728, LDAB 6982, MP3 1666)
Scope & Content:
Portions of a new comedy extracted from mummy cartonnage.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Nineteen fragments of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, housed in two glass frames, named Papyrus 1824(1) and Papyrus 1824(2).