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Papyrus 500
- Record Id:
- 040-002104882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001f1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468786.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 500
- Title:
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Contest of Homer and Hesiod (P.Lond.Lit. 191, P.Petr. I 25(1), P.Lond. III 500 descr., TM 59083, LDAB 178, MP3 77)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll recounting the first stages of the contest between Hesiod and Homer (Alcidamas, Certamen 69-102). Theognis 425-427 and Odyssey IX 5-11 are quoted.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104882 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 500 : Contest of Homer and Hesiod (P.Lond.Lit. 191, P.Petr. I 25(1), P.Lond. III 500 descr., TM 59083, LDAB 178, MP3 77) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1121]/040-002104882
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll reused as mummy cartonnage, with some surface damage in places; written along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Portions of two columns survive, the first lacking the beginnings and the second the ends. The intercolumn measures 7-12 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468786.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0250
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 143 x 100 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 155 mm.
Script: Small practised upright hand, with little space between lines; quotations marked by blank space and paragraphi.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Gurob, 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. III 500 descr.
P.Lond.Lit.191
P.Petr. I 25(1) - 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. 502.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part I (Dublin: The Academy House 1891), pp. 70-73, no. 25(1), with pl.
A. Rzach, Hesiodi Carmina. Accedit Homeri et Hesiodi Certamen (Lipsiae: 1902), pp. 433–450.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. x, no. 500 descr.
T. W. Allen, Homeri Opera, vol. 5 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), p. 225.
U. von Wilamowitz, Vitae Homeri et Hesiodi in usum scholarum (Berlin: 1929), pp. 45-47.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1927), p. 157, no. 191.
A. Colonna, Hesiodi Opera et dies (Milano: Istituto Editoríale Cisalpino 1959), passim.
E. Vogt, ‘Die Schrift vom Wettkampf Homers und Hesiods’, Rheinisches Museum 102 (1959), pp. 193-221 (pp. 206-208).
M. L. West, ‘The Contest of Homer and Hesiod’, Classical Quarterly NS 17 (1967), pp. 433-450.
G.L. Koniaris, 'Michigan Papyrus 2754 and the Certamen’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 75 (1971), pp. 107-129.
G. Avezzù, Alcidamante. Orazioni e frammenti (Roma: L’”Erma” di Bretschneider 1982), p. xviii.
K. Heldmann, Die Niederlage Homers im Dichterwettstreit mit Hesiod (Hypomnemata 75) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1982), pp. 17, 34-36, and passim.
J. Th. Kakridis, ‘Zum ἀγὼν Ὁμήρου καὶ Ἡσιόδου’, in P. Händel, W. Meid (eds.), Festschrift für Robert Muth: Zum 65. Geburtstag am 1. Januar 1981 (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 22) (Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität 1983), pp. 189-192.
W. Luppe, ‘K. Heldmann, Die Niederlage Homers im Dichterwettstreit mit Hesiod. Göttingen 1982’, Deutsche Literaturzeitung für Kritik der internationalen Wissenschaft 105 (1984), pp. 480-482.
N. O'Sullivan, Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theory (Hermes-Einzelschriften 60) (Stuttgart: F. Steiner 1992), pp. 63-64.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), p. 59, no. 30, p. 62, and passim; with pl.
P. Bassino, ‘Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi: nuovi spunti per una riconsiderazione delle testimonianze papiracee’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 180 (2012), pp. 38–42.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 2, Frammenti adespoti; Gnomologi e sentenze. 2, Sentenze di autori noti e «chreiai» (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 2015), pp. 357-358.
P. Bassino, The "Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi". A Commentary (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter 2019), pp. 60-67.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)