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1711. Papyrus 2935-2936

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2935-2936
Title:
Oracle Questions (SB X 10569-10570, TM 30642-30643)
Scope & Content:
Two oracle questions addressed to Ammon (?). Left papyrus (SB X 10569, TM 30642): On an official being ill-disposed and the employment of a writer. Right papyrus (SB X 10570, TM 30643): On enduring a situation.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 3rd century
Extent:

Two small papyrus slips, written on one side along the fibres, with the back blank; housed in the same glass frame.

Left papyrus (Papyrus 2935): Complete, with minor surface damage at the top; 9 lines, margins minimal.

Right papyrus (Papyrus 2936): Lacking the bottom left edge; 7 lines, with lines 4-7 mutilated at the beginning. Left margin damaged, other margins extant.

1712. Papyrus 2943

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2943
Title:
Theophrastus, On Water (?) (P.Hib. I 16, TM 62831, LDAB 4021, MP3 1499)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a treatise from mummy cartonnage discussing Democritus’ atomic theory and the composition of sea; possibly a portion from Theophrastus’s work On water.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Portion of a medium-to-dark-brown papyrus reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off on the right and left; with surface damage throughout and plaster residues on the back. On the front, there are portions of 3 columns written along the fibres; of the first, there survive the ends of few lines; the second is the best preserved and consists of 22 lines; of the third, the beginnings of 20 lines remain. The modern annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. On the back, there are few traces of writing, covered with plaster. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1713. Papyrus 2944

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2944
Title:
Loan of Money (P.Hib. I 88, TM 2819)
Scope & Content:
Fragment from mummy cartonnage of a loan of 160 silver drachmas, given by Sostratus to a man whose name is damaged. Penalty applies should the borrower fail to pay the loan back within the agreed time.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
August-September 263 BC
Extent:
Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off on the left and at the bottom. On the front, there are the ends of 14 lines written along the fibres; on the back, there are traces of lines which may be offsets from another papyrus which was part of the same cartonnage and plaster residues. The modern annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1714. Papyrus 2945

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2945
Title:
Poetical Onomasticon (P.Hib. II 172, TM 62370, LDAB 3535, MP3 2129)
Scope & Content:
List of poetical epithets, usually in the masculine nominative, all of which are compound adjectives, roughly arranged on the basis of their formation or of their meaning. The adjectives usually belong to Homeric and epic vocabulary, although some adjectives occur in the choral and tragic lyric....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
mid 3rd century BC
Extent:
Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, with writing on one side along the fibres. The front bears five columns, while the back has painted decoration on plaster. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1715. Papyrus 2946

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2946
Title:
Comparison between Archilochus and Homer (P.Hib. II 173, TM 59980, LDAB 1092, MP3 136)
Scope & Content:
Comparison between Homer and Archilochus, attributed to Heraclides Ponticus (Turner 1955), alternating hexameters of Homer and iambic tetrameters of Archilochus, mostly of gnomic character. Each line is introduced by the name of the author. Iliad IV.182, V.130 and XIV.66 are quoted.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Papyrus fragment, reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off on all sides and with a parallelogram cut out of its centres; from mummy cartonnage, covered with plaster residue; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of 12 lines survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1716. Papyrus 2947

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2947
Title:
Astydamas, Hector (?) and Tragic Verses (P.Hib. II 174, TM 59326, 100217, LDAB 424, 10833)
Scope & Content:
Portions of a tragedy, possibly Astydamas’s Hector, with the choral song, a monody of an unnamed male character, mentioning a prophecy of the seer Helenus, and apparently Achilles’s realization that his armour was lost to Hector. The back bears tragic trimeters, possibly from an anthology.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century BC
Extent:
Three fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides. On the front, the writing runs along the fibres. Fragment 1 preserves portions of two columns from the foot of the roll, with the lower margin; fragment 2 bears portions of 11 lines; fragment 3 has the beginnings of 7 lines. On the back, there are portions of two columns, tattered. The papyrus is mounted on paper in a glass frame.

1717. Papyrus 2948

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2948
Title:
Lexicon and Prose Text (P.Hib. II 175, TM 65730, LDAB 6984)
Scope & Content:
Portions of an alphabetical lexicon, arranged in the order of the first two letters, accompanied by a gloss. In column 1, the glosses are lost and the words begin with de-, in column 2 with eu-. The lemmata are not only Homeric and are given in various forms, possibly based on how they appeared ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
260-240 BC
Extent:
Two fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides. On the front, the writing runs along the fibres. Fragment 1 carries portions of 16 lines; fragment 2 bears portions of 6 lines. On the back, fragment 1 bears portions of 11 lines from one column, written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front, and covered with plaster; fragment 2 is blank. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1718. Papyrus 2949

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2949
Title:
Tragedy (?) (P.Hib. II 176, TM 65731, LDAB 6985, MP3 1920)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a literary work, with parts of anapaestic dimeters, perhaps from a ritual song or the choral lyric from a tragedy; ritual accompaniments of worship such as the Phrygian flute are mentioned. On the back there are traces of writing, of which little remains.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
One medium-brown papyrus fragment from mummy cartonnage, darker on the right-hand side of the front; with plaster residue on the back; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 10 lines running along the fibres and lacking the beginnings; right and lower margins survive. The back bears traces of writing across the fibres, mostly effaced. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1719. Papyrus 2950

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2950
Title:
Fragment of a Thebaid (P.Hib. II 177, TM 65732, LDAB 6986, MP3 1780)
Scope & Content:
Fragments of hexameters from mummy cartonnage; the poem is presumably a Thebaid. The right fragment, which corresponds to fragment 1 in the edition, is in direct speech, and a mother seems to be lamenting her son. The reference to a golden thrinax and to the dithyramb may suggest that he is Dion...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Two papyrus fragments of different size, with surface damage, from mummy cartonnage; writing runs along the fibres on the front. The left fragment preserves remains of 12 lines, the right fragment, which comes first, has remains of 16 lines. The papyrus is badly stained and rubbed. It is housed in a glass case.

1720. Papyrus 2951

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2951
Title:
Tragedy (?) (P.Hib. II 178, TM 65717, LDAB 6971, MP3 1720)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a literary work, presumably a tragedy, of which a few iambic trimeters survive. Traces of effaced writing are visible on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Two non-contiguous fragments from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage; broken off on all sides and with plaster residue in places; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, the text runs along the fibres; the left-hand fragment preserves the central portions of 11 lines; on the right-hand fragment a few letters from the central portions of 9 lines survive. On the back, there are traces of writing across the fibres, entirely effaced. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.

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