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Papyrus 271
- Record Id:
- 040-002104644
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003cf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 271
- Title:
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Homer, Odyssey III (P.Lond.Lit. 30, TM 60262, LDAB 1382, MP3 1039)
- Scope & Content:
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The fragments contain lines from Homer’s Odyssey III with scholia from Ammonius, Apion, Zenodotus, Herodorus or Erotianus.
Papyrus 271(1)
Left fragment, Column 1: Odyssey III 283-293, with scholia;
Left fragment, Column 2: Odyssey III 319-327, with scholia;
Right fragment: Odyssey III 387-404, with scholia;
Papyrus 271(2)
Column 1: Odyssey III 422-456, with scholia;
Column 2: Odyssey III 457-492; with scholia; line 487 is omitted;
Column 3: Odyssey III 494-497; end-title; line 493 is omitted.
The fragments in Vienna contain further incomplete lines from Odyssey III: lines 267-278, 283-289, scholia to 319-322, 327-335, 353-362, 359-365, scholia to 359-367 (?), scholia to 373-380, 405-421, 422-424, 453-456, 494-496.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104644 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 271 : Homer, Odyssey III (P.Lond.Lit. 30, TM 60262, LDAB 1382, MP3 1039) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0163]/040-002104644
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragments from a light-coloured papyrus roll of high quality, written on one side along the fibres; each column would have contained between 34 and 36 lines measuring 20.5 x 16.7 cm; the upper margin survives to 6 cm in Papyrus 271 (1), the lower margin survives to 7 cm in Papyrus 271(2). The roll would have been approximately 7 m long if it contained the first three books of the Odyssey, as the end-title suggests. Two hands are present. Mounted on cardboard in two glass cases. Further fragments from the same papyrus roll have been identified in the Vienna Collection and published as P.Sijp. 3.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_271 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0099
- Date Range:
- 1st century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 271(1): Fragment 1: 110 x 190 mm; Fragment 2: 160 x 200 mm; Papyrus 272(2): 330 x 525 mm; housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 271(1), measuring 215 x 485 mm, and Papyrus 271(2) measuring 360 x 560 mm.
Script: Fine round majuscule, overall bilinear; accents, breathings and diacritical marks such as diple and diaeresis are used; elision occurs and is sometimes marked; iota adscript is present. A second hand, small and cursive, is responsible for corrections and marginal scholia and presumably added punctuation (high and middle dots). In one of the Vienna fragments there is also a stichometric notation (no. 400).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 256-271 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 14 March 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 30
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1907), p. 440.
F. G. Kenyon, ‘Two New MSS in the British Museum’, The Journal of Philology 22 (1894), pp. 238-261 (pp. 238-246).
F. G. Kenyon, The Palaeography of Greek Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), pl. XV.
E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 123, no. 8.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 27-28, no. 30.
H. Gerstinger, 'Katalog der Homerpapyri der Sammlung ‘Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer’', Archiv für Bibliographie 1 (1926), pp. 86-93 (pp. 92-93 no. 24).
G. Cavallo, ‘La scrittura greca libraria tra I secoli I a.C.-I d.C. Materiali, tipologie, momenti’, in D.Harlfinger, G.Prato (edd.), Paleografia e codicologia greca, Atti del II colloquio internazionale, Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso 1991), I pp. 23-25, 29, II p. 24 tav.18.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro: la scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio. Papyrologica Florentina 36 (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), p. 118.
K. McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (Oakville, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists 2007), pp. 276-281, no. 1039.
P. Mertens, ‘L'apport de la collection Viennoise au chant III de l'Odyssée’, in A. Sirks, K. A. Worp, (edd.), Papyri in Memory of P. J. Sijpesteijn (American Studies in Papyrology 40) (Chippenham: The American Society of Papyrologists 2007), pp. 10-18.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: F. Serra 2008), p. 72.
F. Schironi, To Mega Biblion: Book-Ends, End-Titles and Coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry. American Studies in Papyrology 48 (Durham, NC: American Society of Papyrologists 2010), pp. 118-119, no. 17.
A. Ciampi, ‘Aspetti del rotolo in eta romana’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), I papiri omerici: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze 9-10 giugno 2011 (Firenze: Istituto papirologico "G. Vitelli” 2012), pp. 65-78 (pp. 67-70).
D. Kaltsas, ‘Beiträge zum antiken Buchwesen’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 193 (2015), pp. 78-86 (p. 85).
- Exhibitions:
- Troy, British Museum, London, 21 November 2019 - 8 March 2020
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)