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Record Id:

032-001628032

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001628032

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0001f5

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 33293

Title:

Homer, Iliad III 273-285 with syllabification (TM 60833, LDAB 1961, MP³ 694)

Scope & Content:

A wooden board, painted white and written along the long dimension, with thirteen lines from the third book of Homer's Iliad; on one side Iliad III 273-277, with the words separated by oblique lines. On the other Iliad III 278-285, with words and syllables distinguished with small markings, then large blank space. There are a few insignificant variations from the manuscripts. Apostrophe is always marked.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001628032

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-001628032

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

A wooden board, painted white and inscribed in ink on both sides.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0200

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Wood.

Dimensions: 180 x 375 mm.

Script: A teacher’s hand, with large letters and some of the initials further enlarged. Slightly slanting to the right, a mixture of large, angular letters and small, round ones. Some ligatures (especially epsilon, theta, alpha, tau) and cursive elements at the end of lines.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased from E. M. Emerson on 12 November 1887.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1889), pp. 293-94, no. 33,293.

F. Kenyon, ‘Two Greek School-Tablets’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 29 (1909), pp. 29-40.

E. Ziebarth, Aus der antiken Schule: Sammlung griechischer Texte auf Papyrus, Holztafeln, Ostraka 2 (Bonn: E. Marcus und E. Weber 1913; Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen 65), no. 20.

M. Richard, Inventaire des Manuscrits Grecs du British Museum (Paris: C.N.R.S. 1952; Publications de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes 3), p. 56.

G. Zalateo, ‘Papiri scolastici’, Aegyptus, 41 (1961), p. 179, no. 115.

R. Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1965), no. 694.

J. Debut, ‘Les documents scolaires’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 63 (1986), p. 260, no. 159.

K. Painter, ‘A Roman Writing Tablet from London’, British Museum Quarterly 31 (1967), p. 110, no. 24.

W. Brashear, F. Hoogendijk, ‘Corpus tabularum lignearum ceratarumque Aegyptiarum’, Enchoria, 17 (1990), p. 39 & no. 86.

R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta: Scholars Press 1996; American Studies in Papyrology 36), no. 292 (descr.).

M. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München: K.G. Saur), p. 94, no. 164.

K. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Leuven: Trismegistos Online Publications 2012; Version 1.0), p. 29, no. 176.

Julia Lougovaya, 'A Tablet with Iliad 3. 273–285', in Lajos Berkes, W. Graham Claytor und Maria Nowak (eds), Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens, (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz), 2023, pp. 221-30.

Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000036354151X