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Papyrus 135

Record Id:

040-002104516

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00032b

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ISAD(G)

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Papyrus 135

Title:

Herodas, Mimiambi (P.Lond.Lit. 96, TM 60050, LDAB 1164, MP³ 485)

Scope & Content:

Roll of small format containing seven complete Mimiambi of Herodas and the beginning of the eighth, each with title.

Papyrus 135(1) Upper Fragment-Papyrus 135(2), Upper fragment, column 1, line 11: Mime 1, ‘The Matchmaker or the Go-Between’; with marginal annotation by the second hand in Papyrus 135(1), middle fragment, column 1.

Papyrus 135(2), Upper fragment, column 1, line 12-Papyrus 135(3), upper fragment, column 2, line 5: Mime 2, ‘The Brothel-Keeper’. With marginal annotation by the second hand in Papyrus 135(2), upper fragment, column 2.

Papyrus 135(3), upper fragment, column 2, line 6-Papyrus 135(4), upper fragment, column 2, line 1: Mime 3, ‘The schoolmaster’;

Papyrus 135(4), upper fragment, column 2, line 2-Papyrus 135(5), upper fragment, column 1, line 6: Mime 4, ‘Women dedicating and sacrificing to Asclepius;

Papyrus 135(5), upper fragment, column 1, line 7- Papyrus 135(5), lower fragment, column 2, line 1: Mime 5, ‘A Jealous Person’;

Papyrus 135(5), lower fragment, column 2, line 2-Papyrus 135(6), lower fragment, column 1, line 10: Mime 6, ‘Women in a friendly or private situation; with annotation in the upper margin of Papyrus 135(6), lower fragment, column 1.

Papyrus 135(5), lower fragment, column 2, line 11- Papyrus 135(7), lower fragment, column 2, line 14: Mime 7, ‘The Cobbler’;

Papyrus 135(7), lower fragment, column 2, line 15-Papyrus 135(8), end: portions of Mime 8, ‘A dream’.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104516

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Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 135 : Herodas, Mimiambi (P.Lond.Lit. 96, TM 60050, LDAB 1164, MP3 485)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0054]/040-002104516

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Extent:

Fragments of a papyrus roll of small format, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in eight glass cases named Papyrus 135(1), Papyrus 135(2), Papyrus 135(3), Papyrus 135(4), Papyrus 135(5), Papyrus 135(6), Papyrus 135(7), and Papyrus 135(8). 46 columns, more or less complete, survive. The column height is 80-85 mm, with each column having 15 to 19 lines. The upper and lower margins measure 20 mm and 25 mm respectively; the intercolumn is often irregular. The surface is abraded in many spots, and loose and dislocated fibres are visible in places; sheet-joins running across the fibres and along the height of the roll are visible in some of the fragments.

Papyrus 135(1): Three fragments with detached fibres and one scrap: the upper contains one column, preceded by ample blank space measuring 80 mm; a sheet-join running across the fibres is visible at the end of the lines; the middle fragment has two columns, the second being badly abraded; the lower fragment contains two columns, the first being abraded.

Papyrus 135(2): Four fragments with detached scraps: the upper fragments contain parts of two columns, the first of which lacks the endings and the second the beginnings; the middle and lower fragments contain two complete columns each, with little surface.

Papyrus 135(3): Three complete fragments, each containing two columns.

Papyrus 135(4): Three complete fragments, each containing two columns, with few small insect holes.

Papyrus 135(5): Three complete fragments, each containing two columns, the third slightly more damaged by insect holes.

Papyrus 135(6): Three fragments, each containing two columns, the first and second being complete, the third badly damaged by holes.

Papyrus 136(7): Three fragments with detached scraps; each of the three fragments contain two columns; the upper fragment is damaged, and the first column lacks the beginning; the others are well preserved, although some surface damage is visible in places.

Papyrus 135(8): Eleven fragments of varying size, a few of which are scraps, containing parts of five incomplete columns.

The papyrus is also known as Egerton Papyrus 1.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0050

End Date:

0150

Date Range:

mid 1st century- mid 2nd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; height of the roll: 124 mm; length of the roll: 500 mm. Housed in eight glass cases named Papyrus 135(1), Papyrus 135(2), Papyrus 135(3), Papyrus 135(4), Papyrus 135(5), Papyrus 135(6), Papyrus 135(7), and Papyrus 135(8), all measuring 445 x 295 mm.

Script: Small, clear, upright and somewhat flattened capital hand, with some cursive affinities, responsible for the few accents, apostrophes and marks, and for some corrections. Paragraphus used to indicate change of speakers; coronis to separate the mimes; elision not marked. Corrections and additions by a second hand, cursive.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Found: Moirai, Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 130-137 from Dr. John R. Alexander according to the Trustees’ minute of 12 April 1890 using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829)). Further fragments of papyri in this lot were bought on 12 July 1890.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 96

Former Internal References:

Egerton Papyrus 1

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), pp. 395-396.

H. Weil, ‘Fragment iambique inédit rapporté par M. Sayce’, Revue des études grecques 3 (1890), pp. 309-310.

F. G. Kenyon, Classical texts from papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1891) pp. 1-39.

F. G. Kenyon, ‘Additional Fragments of Herodas’, Classical Review 5 (1891) 480-482 (fr. 1-11).

F. G. Kenyon, ‘Corrected Readings of Papyrus’, Classical Review 5 (1891) 482-483.

F. G. Kenyon, ‘Nouveaux fragments d’Hérodas’, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 15 (1891), pp. 162-167.

W. G. Rutherford, Hêrôndou Mimiamboi. Herondas, a First Recension (New York-London: Macmillan 1891).

H. Weil, ‘Corrigenda to Hirschfeld, Wescher and Sayce’, Revue des études grecques 4 (1891), p. 483.

E. Wending, ‘Herodas III 75f.’, Philologus 51 (1892), pp. 177-180.

E. Scott, Herodas facsimile of Papyrus CXXXV in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1892).

R. J. Walker, ‘Herodas Col. XI ll. 11-12’, Classical Review 6 (1892), pp. 262-263.

R. Meister, Die Mimiamben des Herodas (Leipzig: S. Hirzel 1893).

I. Zanei, De Heronda mimorum scriptore nuper in lucem restituto (Augusta Taurinorum: typis Vincentii Bonae 1894).

F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), pp. 93-95, with pl. 18.

F. G. Kenyon, ‘Some new Fragments of Herodas’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 1 (1901), pp. 379-387.

J. A. Nairn, Hêrôidou Mimiamboi. The Mimes of Herodas (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1904).

F. Bücheler, ‘Über Herondas (mit Interpretationen des 4. Gedichts)’, Zeitschrift für das Gymnasialwesen 59 (1905), pp. 176-177.

A. Vogliano, Ricerche sopra l’ottavo mimiambo di Heroda (Enhupnion). Con un excurso (IV 93-5) (Milano: Tip. A. Cordani 1906).

P. Groeneboom, Les Mimiambes d’Hérodas, I-VI. Avec notes critiques et commentaire explicative (Groningen: Noordhoff 1922).

A. E. Housman, ‘Herodas II 65-71’, Classical Review 36 (1922), pp. 109-110.

W. R. Halliday, ‘Herodas, Mimes III 93’, Classical Review 37 (1923), p. 115.

H.J. Rose, ‘Quaestiones Herondeae’, Classical Quarterly 17 (1923), pp. 32-34.

J. M. Edmonds, ‘Some Notes on the Herodas Papyrus’, Classical Quarterly 19 (1925), pp. 129-146.

N. Terzaghi, Eroda, I Mimiambi. Testo critico e commento (Torino: Chiantore 1925).

A. Vogliano, ‘Nuovi studi sui mimiambi di Heroda’, Rivista di Filosofia 3 (1925), pp. 395-412.

W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C.H. Beck 1925), p. 82.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1927), pp. 66-67, no. 96.

A. D. Knox, W. G. Headlam, Herodas. The Mimes and fragments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1922), pp. lvii-lxiv.

O. Specchia, ‘Il primo mimiambo di Eroda’, Quaderni del Liceo Capece 1 (1960), pp. 39-48.

O. Specchia, ‘Preghiera e sacrificio nel IV Mimiambo di Eroda’, Quaderni del Liceo Capece 2 (1961), pp. 1-11.

O. Specchia, ‘Eroda, il maestro’, Rivista di studi classici 10 (1962), pp. 259-264.

A. Ch. Papacharisi, ‘Antistoichoi pros archaias neohellênikai ekphraseis’, Platon 15 (1963), pp. 279-284.

I. C. Cunningham, ‘Herodas 1. 26 ff’, Classical Review. New Series 15 (1965), pp. 7-9.

D. Kuijper, ‘Ubi mures ferrum rodunt’, Mnemosyne. Fourth Series, Vol. 18 (1965), pp. 64-71.

I. C. Cunningham, ‘Herodas 4’, Classical Quarterly. New Series 16 (1966), pp. 113-125.

M. Marcovich, ‘Nochmals zu Herodas III 50–52’, Philologus 110 (1966), pp. 137-138.

M. L. West, ‘Conjectures on 46 Greek Poets: no. 40’, Philologus 110 (1966), pp. 147-168.

V. Schmidt, Sprachliche Untersuchungen zu Herondas (Berlin: De Gruyter 1968).

C. Miralles, ‘Consideraciones acerca de la cronología y de la posíbile localización geográfica de algunos mimiambos de Herodas’, Emerita 37 (1969), pp. 353-365.

L. Massa Positano, Eroda, Mimiambo I-V (Napoli: Libreria Scientifica Editrice 1970-1974).

O. Masson, ‘En marge du mime II d’Hérondas. Les surnoms ioniens Báttaros et Battarãs’, Revue des études grecques 83 (1970), pp. 356-361.

C. Miralles, Herodes, Mimiambs (Barcelona: Fundació Bernat Metge 1970).

O. Masson, ‘Relatio seminarii de Hérondas II’, Annuaire de l'école pratique des Hautes études, 4ième sect. (1970/71), pp. 213-219.

I. C. Cunningham, Herodas. Mimiambi (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971).

J. F. Killeen, ‘Herodas II 12ff. (Headlam)’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 91 (1971), pp. 139-140.

B. Veneroni, ‘Ricerche su due mimiambi di Eroda [8, 2]’, Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere, Scienze morali e storiche 105 (1971), pp. 223-242.

O. Masson, ‘Relatio seminarii de Hérondas IV’, Annuaire de l'école pratique des Hautes études, 4ième sect. (1971/72), pp. 193-200.

B. Veneroni, ‘Divagazioni sul V Mimiambo di Eroda’, Revue des études grecques 85 (1972), pp. 319-330.

O. Masson, ‘Relatio seminarii de Hérondas III’, Annuaire de l'école pratique des Hautes études, 4ième sect. (1972/73), pp. 227-231.

G. Giangrande, ‘Interpretations of Herodas’, Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica 15 (1973), pp. 82-98.

B. Veneroni, ‘Allaciamenti tematici tra la commedia greco-latina ed il mimo di Eroda’, Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo 107 (1973), pp. 760-772.

O. Masson, ‘Deux ouvrages récents concernant Hérondas’, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 48 (1974), pp. 81-91.

G. Mastromarco, Giuseppe. Il pubblico di Eronda (Padova: Edizioni Antenore 1979).

A. Melero Bellido, ‘Consideraciones en torno a los Mimiambos de Herodas’, Cuadernos de filología clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos 7 (1974), pp. 303-316.

T. S. Pattie, E. G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board 1974), p. 28, no. 34.

G. W. Lawall, ‘Herodas 6 and 7 reconsidered’, Classical Philology 71 (1976), pp. 165-169.

D. N. Levin, ‘An Herondean Diptych’, Ziva Antika (Antiquité vivante) 26 (1976), pp. 345-355.

E. Mogensen, ‘Note on “arássei” in Herodas I.1’, Hermes 104 (1976), pp. 498-499.

E. Mogensen, ‘Herodas III Revisited’, Didaskalos 5 (1977), pp. 395-398.

A. Brancolini, ‘Le calzature in Eronda 7.57-61’, Prometheus 4 (1978), pp. 227-242.

D. E. Gerber, ‘Herodas 5.1’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82 (1978), pp. 161-165.

O. Specchia, 'Gli studi su Eroda nell’ultimo trentennio', Cultura e scuola 70 (1979), pp. 32-43.

J. Stern, ‘Herodas’ Mimiamb 6’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 20 (1979), pp. 247-254.

V. Schmidt, ‘Herondas und das Problem der Etymologie von “proun(e)ikos”’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 37 (1980), pp. 161-167.

R. G. Ussher, ‘The Mimiamboi of Herodas’, Hermathena 129 (1980), pp. 65-76.

J. Stern, ‘Herodas’ Mimiamb V’, Classical Philology 76 (1981), pp. 207-11.

J. Stern, ‘Herodas’ Mimiamb 1’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 22 (1981), pp. 161-165.

U. Treu, ‘Herondas 3,24-26 und die Schulpraxis’, Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica 8 (1981), pp. 113-116.

M. Grossi, ‘Sul’esordio del mimo VI di Eroda’, Rheinisches Museum 127 (1984), pp. 259-262.

L. Torraca, ‘Osservazioni su un segno critico nel papiro londinese di Eroda’, in Atti del XVII congresso internazionale di papirologia (Napoli, 19-26 maggio 1983) (Napoli: Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanei 1984), I, pp. 57-69.

G. Mastromarco, The Public of Herondas. Revised and augmented edition (Amsterdam: Gieben 1984).

Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Zu Herondas VII 122-3’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), p. 20.

R. G. Ussher, ‘The mimic tradition of “character” in Herodas’, Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica 50 = NS 21 (1985), pp. 45-68.

V. G. Mandilaras, Hoi mimoi tou Hêrônda. Kritikê kai hermeneutikê ekd. B’ ekdosê (Athens: Kardamitsa 1986).

E. G. Turner, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987²), pp. 72-73, no. 39.

R. Di Virgilio, ‘La firma di Eronda’, Bollettino dei classici 9 (1988), pp. 100-104.

C. Gallavotti, ‘La citazione di Eroda negli scoliasti di Nicandro’, Bollettino dei classici 9 (1988), pp. 3-20.

V. G. Mandilaras, ‘Some Observations on the Text of Herondas’, in Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Papyrology, Athens 25-31 May 1986 (Athens: Kardamitsa 1988), pp. 431-438.

R. Kabus-Preisshofen, Die hellenistische Plastik der Insel Kos (Berlin: Mann 1989), pp. 52-63.

Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Varia Graeca’, Rheinisches Museum 132 (1989), pp. 294-297.

G. J. Boter, ‘A Note on Herondas III 40’, Mnemosyne 43 (1990), pp. 155-156.

C. Castello, ‘Sulla legislazione attribuita a Caronda nel secondo Mimiambo di Eroda’, in G. Nenci, G. Thür (eds.), Symposion 1988. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Siena-Pisa 6.-8. Juni 1988). Comunicazioni sul diritto greco ed ellenistico (Köln: Böhlau 1990), pp. 361-368.

G. Mastromarco, ‘Eine alexandrinische Kupplerin’, Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft 6 (1990), pp. 87-98.

J. Rusten, I. C. Cunningham, A. D. Knox, Theophrastus: characters (Herodas, mimes, Cercidas and the choliambic poets) (London: Harvard University Press 1993), pp. 199-317.

Ch. G. Brown, ‘The Big Sleep: Herodas 8.5’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 102 (1994), pp. 95-99.

L. Di Gregorio, Eronda Mimiambi I-II (Bibl. di Aevum antiquum) (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1997-2004).

W. D. Furley, ‘Herodas/Herondas’, in Der Neue Pauly 5 (1998), pp. 455-458.

J. Rowlandson, Women and society in Greek and Roman Egypt: A Sourcebook (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998), pp. 365-368, no. 289.

E. Esposito, ‘Mim. Pap. fr. 7.16 Cunn’, Eikasmos 10 (1999), pp. 163-165.

D. Kutzko, Herodas, Mime, and Comedy. Tradition and Reception in Mimiamboi 6 and 7 (Diss. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999 = DA 63 2003-2004).

E. Esposito, ‘A proposito di una nuova edizione di Eronda’, Eikasmos 11 (2000), pp. 219-234.

D. Kutzko, ‘Koritto in Herodas 6’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 133 (2000), pp. 35-41.

E. Esposito, ‘Allusività epica e ispirazione giambica in Herond. 1 e 8’, Eikasmos 12 (2001), pp. 141-159.

B. Legras, Lire en Egypte d'Alexandre à l'Islam (Paris: Picard 2002), p. 69.

G. B. D'Alessio, ‘Danni materiali e ricostruzione di rotoli papiracei: Le Elleniche di Ossirinco ("POxy" 842) e altri esempi’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 134 (2001), pp. 23-41 (p. 36).

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A. Martin, ‘Heurs et malheurs d'un manuscrit. Deux notes à propos du papyrus d'Hérondas’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 139 (2002), pp. 22-26.

P. M. Fraser, ‘The public and the poet in Ptolemaic Alexandria’, Praktika tes Akadimias Athinon (PAA) 78 (2003), pp. 98-110.

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A. Fountoulakis, ‘Bitinna and the Tyrant: Some Remarks on Herondas 5.74-77*’, Philologus 151 (2007), pp. 230-243.

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Herodas, author of Mimiambi, 3rd century BC

Places:

Moirai, Hermopolite nome, Egypt

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the Archive of the Library of Athenaion Politeia (TM Arch ID 562).