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Papyrus 488

Record Id:

040-002104870

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001e5

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147471901.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 488

Title:

Plato, Phaedo (P.Petr. I 5-8, TM 62649, LDAB 3835, MP³ 1388), and Fragment of a Comedy (P.Lond.Lit. 254, TM 65743, LDAB 6997, MP³ 1635)

Scope & Content:

Fragments of a roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, preserving portions of Plato’s Phaedo 67B-84B and a few lines from an Old Comedy.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104870

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 488 : Plato, Phaedo (P.Petr. I 5-8, TM 62649, LDAB 3835, MP3 1388), and Fragment of a Comedy (P.Lond.Lit. 254, TM 65743, LDAB 6997, MP3 1635)

Contains:

Papyrus 488(1) : Phaedo 67E-69A
Papyrus 488(2) : Phaedo 79C-81C
Papyrus 488(3) : Phaedo 67B, 82A-84B, and Fragment of a Comedy
Papyrus 488(4) : Phaedo 83A-84A

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Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1436]/040-002104870

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in four glass frames, named Papyrus 488(1), Papyrus 488(2), Papyrus 488(3), Papyrus 488(4). The fragments bear writing on one side along the fibres. Portions of 18 columns survive, each column having an average of 22 lines. Each column measures 145 x 70 mm; the upper margin measures 30 mm, the lower 40 mm. A small fragment of lighter colour in Papyrus 488(3) belongs to another roll.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0299

End Date:

-0200

Date Range:

3rd century BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; height of the roll: 215 mm; housed in four glass frames named Papyrus 488(1), Papyrus 488(2), Papyrus 488(3), and Papyrus 488(4).

Script: Very small, upright, regular and skilled hand, with contrast between narrow and broad letters; some uprights descend below the line. Paragraphus and horizontal dash mark change of speaker.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Gurob, 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. 145
P.Lond.Lit. 257
P.Petrie I 5-8

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 500.

John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, part I (Dublin: The Academy House, 1891), nos. 5-8, with plates.

Jacobus J. Hartman, ‘Ad Platonis Phaedonem’, Mnemosyne, 20 (1892), 152-67.

Frederic G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1899), plate X.

Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), p. 52, no. 990.

Wilhelm Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C. H. Beck, 1925), pl. 67.

Goffredo Coppola, ‘Appunti intorno ai papiri di Platone’, Aegyptus, 5 (1924), 213-19.

Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 122, no. 145.

Johannes Mewaldt, ‘Liebestod bei Platon’, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 80 (1943), 85-97.

Ingeborg Hoog, Der Wert des Phaidon- und Lachespapyrus aus Arsinoe für die Platonüberlieferung, (Hamburg, 1965), passim.

Antonio Carlini, ‘Note critiche al testo del Fedone’, Bollettino del Comitato per la preparazione dell'Edizione nazionale dei Classici greci e latini, 16 (1968), 25-60.

Antonio Carlini, ‘Linee di una storia del testo del "Fedone"’, Studi Classici e Orientali, 17 (1968), 123-48.

Antonio Carlini, Studi sulla tradizione antica e medievale del Fedone (Roma: Edizioni delľAteneo, 1972), passim.

Thomas S. Pattie, Eric G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board, 1974), p. 8, no. 2.

Eric G. Turner, 'Ptolemaic bookhands and Lille Stesichorus', Scrittura e Civiltà, 4 (1980), 19-40 (p. 30).

Antonio Carlini, ‘Sul papiro Flinders Petrie I 5-8 del Fedone’, in Studi su codici e papiri filosofici. Platone, Aristotele, Ierocle (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1992), pp. 147-60.

Christopher Strachan, ‘Studi su codici e papiri filosofici’, in Studi su codici e papiri filosofici. Platone, Aristotele, Ierocle (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1992), pp. 160-62.

Edoardo Crisci, ‘I più antichi libri greci: note bibliologiche e paleografiche su rotili papiracei del IV-III secolo a.C.’, Scrittura e civiltà, 23 (1999), 29-62 (pp. 50-51, pl. 9b-10).

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1: Autori noti (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1999), no. 80 Plato 40.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4: Tavole, (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2000), plates 233-36.

Edoardo Crisci, ‘Per uno studio paleografico e bibliologico dei più antichi libri greci (IV-III secolo a.C.)’, in Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I, ed. by Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi, Giovanna Menci, (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, 2001), pp. 287-300 (pp. 296-98).

Guglielmo Cavallo, Herwig Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co., 2008), pp. 34-35, no. 7.

Fragment from Old Comedy

Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 213, no. 257.

Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 276.

Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci. 1-8 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), Vol. 8: Adespota (1995), no. 1058.

Edoardo Crisci, ‘Per uno studio paleografico e bibliologico dei più antichi libri greci (IV-III secolo a.C.)’, in Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I, ed. by Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi, Giovanna Menci, (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, 2001), pp. 287-300 (p. 296).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Plato, 427 BC-347 BC

Places:

Gurob, meris of Herakleides (?), Arsinoite nome, Egypt