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Papyrus 486
- Record Id:
- 040-002104864
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001bf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471895.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 486
- Title:
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Miscellaneous Literary Texts (TM 60165, 61233, 62771, 62675)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper left papyrus (A) (P.Petr. I 3(1), P.Lond.Lit. 57, 71, TM 62675): Gnomic anthology with quotations arranged by topic, quoting Ps.-Epicharmus and Euripides. Assigned to the first three quarters of the 3rd century BC.
Upper right papyrus (B) (P.Petr. I 3(2), P.Lond.Lit. 79, TM 62771): Fragment of a tragedy, possibly Sophocles’ Iphigenia or Ajax, preserving a speech between Agamemnon and someone else (Talthybius?). Assigned to the 3rd or 2nd century BC.
Lower left papyrus (C) (P.Petr. I 3(3), P.Lond.Lit. 32, TM 60165): Fragment of Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women (Atalanta). Assigned to the 3rd century BC.
Lower right papyrus (D) (P.Petr. I 3(4), P.Lond.Lit. 21, TM 61233): Portions of Homer’s Iliad XI. 502-37, with extra-verses. Assigned to the 3rdcentury BC.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104864 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 486 : Miscellaneous Literary Texts (TM 60165, 61233, 62771, 62675) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1435]/040-002104864
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Four papyrus fragments that do not belong together, extracted from mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.
Upper left papyrus (A): Upper portion of a papyrus, complete at the top, broken off on the other sides; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 9 lines; the upper margin is extant. The back is blank.
Upper right papyrus (B): Papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres and preserving the foot of a column, with the beginnings of 18 lines. The back is blank.
Lower left papyrus (C): Papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom. The back is blank.
Lower right papyrus (D): Light-brown papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of two adjacent columns of 20 and 19 lines respectively. The lower margin survives partly. The back is blank.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC-2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 97 x 94 mm; B: 125 x 60 mm; C: 63 x 67 mm; D: 158 x 63 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 230 mm.
Script: A: Small, somewhat irregular and non-ligatured hand, with some large and narrow letterforms and a few serifs in places; some letters tend to slope to the right; B: Upright, somewhat irregular hand, displaying some ligatures, not bilinear, with some elongated strokes projecting above and below. C: Fairly large, upright hand, with a few serifs in places; irregular in size, non-ligatured. D: Rather rough and irregular round upright hand, with left-pointing hooks at the end of uprights.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. All fragments were 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. 21
P.Lond.Lit. 32
P.Lond.Lit. 57
P.Lond.Lit. 71
P.Lond.Lit. 79
P.Petr. I 3(1)
P.Petr. I 3(2)
P.Petr. I 3(3)
P.Petr. I 3(4) - 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.
A
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), no. 3(1), with plate.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. ix, no. 486 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 44, 51, nos. 57 and 71.
S.R. Slings, ‘Pseudepicharmea Fr. 297 Kaibel (= P. Petrie i 3 (1), 1-5)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 33 (1979), 41-45.
Paolo Carrara, ‘On the Nature of P. Petrie I iii 1: Gnomologium or Work about Plagiarism?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 68 (1987), 14-18.
Rainer Kerkhof, Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie (München-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), pp. 98-99.
Paolo 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. 123-24, no. 23.
Francisca Pordomingo, Antologías griegas de época helenística en papiro (Pap. Flor. 43) (Firenze: Gonnelli, 2013), pp. 126-28, no. 14.
Paolo Carrara, Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 2, Frammenti adespoti; Gnomologi e sentenze. 3, Gnomica (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2017), pp. 320-25 [Gnom. 45].
B
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), no. 3(2), with plate.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. ix, no. 486 descr.
Henry Charles Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 47.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 58-59, no. 79.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta(TrGF), 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1981), no. 637.
Giorgia Giaccardi, ‘L’Ifigenia sofoclea: analisi delle fonti e ricostruzione della trama drammatica’, Frammenti sulla scena (online). Studi sul dramma antico frammentario, 0 (2019), 17-47 (pp. 39-40).
C
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), no. 3(3), with plate.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. ix, no. 486 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 28, no. 32.
D
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), no. 3(4), with plate.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. ix, no. 486 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 25, no. 21.
Stephanie West, The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer (Köln-Opladen: Westdeutscher Verl., 1967), pp. 103-07.
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München-Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2001), p. 88, no. 8.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)