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631. Papyrus 731

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 731
Title:
Military Receipt ( ChLA III 205, P.Grenf. II 110, TM 69873)
Scope & Content:
This receipt for money concerns cavalrymen of an unknown unit. Although the exact nature of the payment is not expressed in the surviving text, the word fides in line 4 points to a fiduciary transaction. Perhaps such payment was needed for food supplies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
293
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll, broken to the left. The document is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso is blank. Portions of six lines survive. The light-brown papyrus preserves the top (18 mm), the right (7 mm), and the bottom (52 mm) margins. The black ink is faded in the right edge and is darker in lines 4-6. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

632. Papyrus 732

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 732
Title:
Homer, Iliad XIII-XIV (P.Lond.Lit. 22, TM 60261, LDAB 1381, MP3 899)
Scope & Content:
Recto Fragments of a roll containing Iliad XIII-XIV, with stichometry and end-title. Papyrus 732(1) Left fragment: Iliad XIII 2-12. Mid fragment: column 1: ends of Iliad XIII 38-56; column 2: Iliad XIII 73-87. Right fragment: ends of 149-186. Unplaced fragments. Papyrus 732(2) Column 1: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank except for the strips glued onto it in order to strengthen the surface, which bear writing. Portions of 36 columns survive; each column contained between 37 and 40 lines, being 95 mm wide and 180 mm high. The space between the columns measures on average 20 mm; the upper margin survives to 23 mm and the lower to 27 mm. The surface is occasionally damaged.

The fragments are housed in ten glass cases, named Papyrus 732 (1), Papyrus 732 (2), Papyrus 732 (3), Papyrus 732 (4), Papyrus 732 (5), Papyrus 732 (6), Papyrus 732 (7), Papyrus 732 (8), Papyrus 732 (9), Papyrus 732 (10); they are mounted on cardboard with the exception of the fragments housed in Papyrus 732(2), Papyrus 732(7), Papyrus 732(9), and Papyrus 732(10), the back of which displays written strips of papyrus added later as a support. The unplaced fragments are housed in Papyrus 732(1).

633. 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.

634. Papyrus 734

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 734
Title:
Land Register (P.Lond. III 734 ro. descr., TM 29239), and Allegorical Commentary on Homer (P.Lond.Lit. 175, P.Lond. III 734 vo. descr., TM 60832, LDAB 1960, MP3 1223)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. III 734 ro. descr., TM 29239): Portions of a land register, unpublished. Verso (P.Lond.Lit. 175, TM 60832): Allegorical interpretations of Homer, quoting Iliad VI 235-236, VII 162, XXIII 252, 648-649, and Odyssey XI 131, XVI 300, 302-303, XIX 40, 136, XXIII 278. Attributed to Plu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
Thirty-four fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, bearing writing on both sides. The front is darkened in place; the writing is along the fibres. On the back, lines run across the fibres, with approximately 30 letters to the line; no line or column is complete. Part of the upper and lower margins and the intercolumn survive. The fragments are mounted in a glass frame.

635. Papyrus 736

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 736
Title:
Account (P.Lond. III 736 ro. descr., TM 29240), and Homer, Iliad (P.Lond.Lit. 15, P.Lond. III 736 vo. descr., TM 60677, LDAB 1802, MP3 817)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. III 736 ro. descr., TM 29240): Remains of accounts written the other way up in relation to the text on the back, and other writing, unpublished. Verso (P.Lond.Lit. 175, TM 60832): Portions with Homer, Iliad VIII 1-22 (line 6 omitted), 49-52, 63-65 67(?), 95, 98-109, 111-120, 128-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century-3rd century
Extent:
Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with some insect holes, written on both sides; the front is darkened in places and preserves portions of some lines from various texts, some written upside down in relation to the text on the back. On the back, there are portions of four columns written across the fibres, with no complete line; each column had 48 lines. Part of the upper and lower margins and of the intercolumn survive. The fragments are mounted in a glass frame.

636. Papyrus 739

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 739
Title:
Sappho, fragment of a poem concerning her brother Charaxus (P.Lond.Lit. 43, P.Oxy. I 7, TM 62709)
Scope & Content:
Sappho, fragment of a poem concerning her brother Charaxus (P. Lond. Lit. 43; P. Oxy. I 7; TM 62709). Fragment 5 in the numbering of Lobel-Page and Voigt. The beginning of the text is partly supplemented by new fragments published in 2014 (P. GC. inv. 105, fr. 3), see further Burris-Fish-Obbink ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

1 fragment of a papyrus roll, writing on one side only, mounted in glass.

637. Papyrus 740

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 740
Title:
New Comedy (P.Oxy. I 11, P.Lond.Lit. 94 descr., TM 61479, LDAB 2626, MP3 1646)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a new comedy, perhaps by Menander. A dialogue between a young man and his slave is preserved; the young man intends to break off his engagement with the daughter of an important man, as he is in love with someone else. Once the master has left, the slave ponders on what to do.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century-2nd century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus sheet, with holes and some surface damage in the preserved portion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears remains of two columns, each of 25 lines, for a height of 115 mm. The first column lacks the beginnings of the lines, the second the ends. Upper and lower margins measure 30 mm. Side margins are lost. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

638. Papyrus 741

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 741
Title:
Herodotus, Historiae I (P.Oxy. I 18, P.Lond.Lit. 102, P.Lugd.Bat. IV 5, TM 60035, LDAB 1149, MP3 466)
Scope & Content:
Fragment containing a prestige copy of Herodotus, Historiae I 105.3-106.1, with the account of the Scythian invasion of Palestine.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll, broken off at the top and sides, darkened in part of the upper portion; the text runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. The bottom of a column with parts of 22 lines survives; the column would have measured approximately 110 x 66 mm. The lower margin, which is the only one preserved, measures 70 mm. There are modern annotations, with the number in redreferring to the edition in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

639. Papyrus 742

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 742
Title:
Homer, Iliad II (P.Oxy. I 20, P.Lond.Lit. 7, TM 60507, LDAB 1630, MP3 668), and Accounts (P.Lond. III 742 vo. descr., TM 29241)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Oxy. I 20, P.Lond.Lit. 7, TM 60507, LDAB 1630, MP3 668): A second-century roll with parts of the second book of the Iliad. Top left fragment: Part of Column 1, with Iliad II.730-736; Bottom left fragment: Part of Column 1, with Iliad II.745-754; Second and third fragments at the bott...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century-early 3rd century
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, originally light-brown, but darkened in places, especially on the back. Both sides bear writing, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. The front contains parts of four columns; of the first and fourth columns, part of the top and bottom remain; of the second, part of the bottom; the third is the best preserved. Each column originally contained 25 lines, for a height of 177 mm; upper and lower margins measure 45 and 58 mm respectively. The intercolumn measures x mm. The text on the back is arranged in columns, of which few portions remain.

Modern annotations are visible, with the number in red referring to the publication in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

640. Papyrus 743

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 743
Title:
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (P.Oxy. I 22, P.Lond. III 743 descr., P.Lond.Lit. 69 descr., TM 62759, LDAB 3947, MP3 1468)
Scope & Content:
The upper portion of a leaf from a papyrus codex containing verses from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, one side having verses 375-385 written across the fibres, with heading letters in the upper margin, the other side containing verses 429-441 written along the fibres. Corrections were added by a diffe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th century
Extent:

Upper portion of a leaf from a papyrus codex, preserving part of one column on each side; broken at the bottom but well preserved as to the rest. The upper margin survives to 3 cm. Ink is faded at places; the heading letter on one side, added at a later stage, is in black ink, the rest being in brown ink; housed in one glass case. Number 22 in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy.

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