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Papyrus 490
- Record Id:
- 040-002104872
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001e7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471908.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 490
- Title:
- Fragment of a Rhetorical Text (P.Petr. I 10, P.Lond.Lit. 137, TM 65744, LDAB 6998, MP3 2523)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a rhetorical composition praising Achilles and his devotion to Patroclus as the best example of philetairia; recovered from mummy cartonnage.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104872 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 490 : Fragment of a Rhetorical Text (P.Petr. I 10, P.Lond.Lit. 137, TM 65744, LDAB 6998, MP3 2523) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1437]/040-002104872
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a papyrus roll, broken off at the bottom and sides, somewhat torn at the top; from mummy cartonnage, with surface damage; bearing writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of three columns remain; of the first, only the line-ends survive. Part of the upper margin and the intercolumns survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471908.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 170 x 167 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 225 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright hand, somewhat thick and irregular; paragraphus used.
- 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. 137
P.Petr. I 10 - 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.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp., no. 10, with pl. x.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 490 descr.
K. Jander, Oratorum et rhetorum graecorum fragmenta nuper reperta (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber’s Verlag 1913), pp. 21-22.
H. J. M. Milne, ‘Readings from Papyri’, The Classical Review 36 (1922), pp. 165-166 (p. 165).
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 906.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 101, no. 137.
G. Menci, ‘Scritture greche librarie con apici ornamentali (III a.C.-II d.C.)’, Scrittura e civiltà 3 (1979) pp. 23-54 (plate 1).
M. de Kreij, ‘The Practice of Praise. P.Mil. Vogl. III 123 + P.CtYBR Inv. 4573 and the Hellenistic Encomium’, Segno e Testo 16 (2018), pp. 55-98 (p. 87, n. 90, and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)