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Papyrus 485
- Record Id:
- 040-002104863
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468721.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 485
- Title:
- Euripides, Antiope (P.Petr. I 1-2, P.Lond.Lit. 70, TM 59927, LDAB 1037, MP3 433)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a roll from mummy cartonnage, with the end of Euripides’ Antiope: Zetus and Amphion, sons of Zeus and Antiope, have killed Dirce; king Lycus enters, eager to capture Antiope. Hermes appears and commands Lycus to relinquish his power to Antiope’s sons.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104863 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 485 : Euripides, Antiope (P.Petr. I 1-2, P.Lond.Lit. 70, TM 59927, LDAB 1037, MP3 433) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1434]/040-002104863
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Three larger fragments with three detached scraps from a papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, with surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of four columns, each of 36-37 lines, for a total of 112 lines; the column’s height is 165 mm. Part of the upper and lower margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468721.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 170 x 167 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 420 mm.
Script: Small, firm, upright hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 486-603 by Henry Martyn Kennard (b. 1833, d. 1911) in May 1895. The papyri had been extracted from mummy cartonnages found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 70
P.Petr. I 1
P.Petr. I 2 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 501.
J. P. Mahaffy, ‘New Fragments of the "Antiope" of Euripides’, Hermathena 8 (1891), pp. 38-51.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 1-12, nos- 1-2, with pl. i.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. ix, no. 485 descr.
H. Schaal, De Euripidis Antiopa (Berlin: H. Pohle 1914).
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 339.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 50-51, no. 70.
A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, ‘Tragedy’, in J. U. Powell (ed.), New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature: Third Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1933), pp. 68-155 (pp. 105–113).
C. Roberts, ‘Some New Readings in Euripides’, The Classical Quarterly 29 (1935), pp. 164-167 (pp. 164–166).
D. L. Page, Select Papyri III. Literary Papyri. Poetry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1950), pp. 60-70.
J. Kambitsis, L'Antiope d'Euripide (Atene: Hourzamanis 1972).
S.R. Slings, ‘The Quiet Life in Euripides' Antiope’, in A. Harder, H. Hofmann (eds.), Fragmenta dramatica: Beiträge zur Interpretation der griechischen Tragikerfragmente und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1991), pp. 137-152.
J. Diggle, Euripidea. Collected Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994), pp. 143-147.
J. Diggle, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998), pp. 88-93.
F. Jouan, H. Van Looy, Euripide. Tome VIII: Fragments 1 (Paris: CUF 1998), pp. 259-267.
R. Kannicht (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta(TrGF) 5.1: Euripides (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 2004), pp. 305-312, no. 223.
P. Carrara, Il testo di Euripide nell'antichità: ricerche sulla tradizione testuale euripidea antica, sec. IV a.C-sec. VIII d.C. (Firenze: Università degli studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità Giorgio Pasquali 2009), pp. 32-34, no. 2.
M. L. Bernardini, ‘L’Antiope di Euripide: l’intellettuale fra tradizione sapienziale e nuove istanze politico-culturali’, Prometheus 42 (2016), pp. 32-60 (p. 32, and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)