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Papyrus 274

Record Id:

040-002104647

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x0003d2

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147468321.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 274

Title:

Story of Tefnut (P.Lond.Lit. 192, TM 63840, LDAB 5054, MP³2618)

Scope & Content:

Portion of a papyrus roll preserving the 'Story of Tefnut', with the Greek translation of the Egyptian myth of the Sun's eye.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104647

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 274 : Story of Tefnut (P.Lond.Lit. 192, TM 63840, LDAB 5054, MP3 2618)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0166]/040-002104647

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Seven fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll of fair quality, written on one side along the fibres. Four small unrelated fragments with few traces of writing in Greek and Demotic are glued onto the back of the largest fragment. The front bears portions of various columns, with 69-71 lines to the column; each line has a width of 65-75 mm; the column height is 277 mm; the intercolumn measures 10-15 mm. Upper and lower margins survive to 27 and 35 mm respectively. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

2nd century-3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragment 1: 190 x 123 mm; Fragment 2: 146 x 45 mm; Fragment 3: 110 x 62 mm; Fragment 4: 340 x 161 mm; Fragment 5: 93 x 140 mm; Fragment 6: 95 x 118 mm; Fragment 7: 55 x 65 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 435 x 790 mm.

Script: Very small, neat, informal uncial hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 272-400 from Theodor Graf (b. 1840, d. 1903) on 11 April 1893.

Former External References:

P.Lond.II 274 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 192

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 422.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xxvi, no. 274 descr.

R. Reitzenstein, Die griechische Tefnutlegende (Sitzb. Heid. Akad. 1923), Abh. 2.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 157, no. 192, pl. xii.

R. M. Rattenbury, ‘Romance: Traces of Lost Greek Novels’, in J. U. Powell (ed.), New chapters in the history of Greek literature, third series; some recent discoveries in Greek poetry and prose, of the Classical and later periods (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1933), pp. 211-257.

S. R. West, ‘The Greek Version of the Legend of Tefnut’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 55 (1969), pp. 161-183.

M. Betrò, ‘L’alchimia delle traduzioni: il Mito dell’occhio del Sole e il PB.M. inv. no. 274’, in Atti del XVII congresso internazionale di papirologia (Napoli, 19-26 maggio 1983) (Napoli: Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanei 1984), pp. 1355-1360.

M. Totti, Ausgewählte Texte des Isis- und Sarapis-Religion (Hildesheim-Zurich-New York: G. Olms 1985), no. 76.

S. A. Stephens, J. J. Winkler, Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1995), pp. 14-15 et 470.

A. Stramaglia, ‘Fra «consumo» e «impegno»: usi didattici della narrativa nel mondo antico’, in O. Pecere, A. Stramaglia (eds.), La letteratura di consumo nel mondo greco-latino: atti del convegno internazionale, Cassino, 14-17 settembre 1994 Lett. di consumo (Cassino: Università degli studi di Cassino 1996), pp. 97-166 (p. 138, and n. 215).

M. P. Lopez Martinez, S. Torallas Tovar, ‘La versión griega de la leyenda demótica del ojo del sol’, Lucentum 23-24 (2004-2005), pp. 185-195.

G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), p. 185.

G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 101, no. 76.

M. P. Martinez, ‘New contributions to some papyri labelled as `incerta` in a corpus of novel fragments’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), I papiri del romanzo antico. Convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze 2009 (STP NS 12) (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico G.Vitellli 2010), pp. 95-119 (pp. 101-106).

M. Signoretti, ‘A Tale of Two Tongues? The Myth of the Sun's Eye and its Greek Translation’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4, 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 725-732.

L. Prada, ‘For a New Edition of P.Lond.Lit. 192: Current Research on the Greek Version of the Myth of the Sun’s Eye’, in P. Schubert (ed.), Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrology, Genève 16-21 août 2010 (Genève: Droz 2012), pp. 627-634.

F. Feder, ‘The Legend of the Sun’s Eye: The translation of an Egyptian novel into Greek ’, in S. Torallas Tovar, J. P. Montferrer Sala (eds.), Cultures in contact: transfer of knowledge in the Mediterranean context: selected papers (Cordoba: Oriens Academic: CNERU: CEDRAC 2013), pp. 7-12.

S. West, ‘Divine Anger Management’, in T. Whitmarsh, S. Thomson (eds.), The romance between Greece and the East (Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2013), pp. 79-90.

L. Prada, ‘Translating Monkeys between Demotic and Greek, or Why a Lynx Is Not Always a Wildcat: (λυκο)λυγξ = (wnš-)kwf’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014) 111-114

Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testamentes (TUAT) N.F. 8 (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2015), pp. 481-490, and 490-503.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)