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Papyrus 589
- Record Id:
- 040-002104971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00028e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471978.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 589
- Title:
- Posidippus of Pella, Epigrams (P.Petr. II 49(a), P.Lond.Lit. 60, TM 62662), and Literary Fragment (P.Lond.Lit. 65, TM 65745)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments extracted from mummy cartonnage.
A (P.Petr. II 49(a), P.Lond.Lit. 60, TM 62662, LDAB 3848): Portion of an anthology of epigrams of Posidippus of Pella, preserving an epithalamium for Arsinoe (Posidippus 114 AB), of which 24 elegiac lines partly survive; the back bears the title, given twice.
B (P.Lond.Lit. 65, TM 65745, LDAB 6999): Fragment from cartonnage preserving an unknown literary work, apparently verses.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104971 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 589 : Posidippus of Pella, Epigrams (P.Petr. II 49(a), P.Lond.Lit. 60, TM 62662), and Literary Fragment (P.Lond.Lit. 65, TM 65745) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1449]/040-002104971
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments with detached scrap, recovered from mummy cartonnage, housed in the same glass frame.
A: Portion of a roll, with plaster residue in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are 24 lines from the foot of a column, written along the fibres; on the back, there are 2 lines running along the fibres, and two other lines written the other way up.
B: Portion of a roll, with plaster residue in places; written on one side along the fibres; the back is blank. The front bears the beginnings of 13 lines from the foot of a column; the detached scrap has a few letters from two lines.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471978.0x000001 (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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 150 x 90 mm; B: 166 x 57 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 180 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, upright, overall bilinear, with well-spaced letters, a few serifs at the end of uprights, and some large letterforms.
- 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. 60
P.Lond.Lit. 65
P.Petr. II 49(a) - 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. 512.
Recto
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, part II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 144, no. 49a.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvii, no. 589(a) descr.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), no. 243.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 45-46, no. 60.
François Lasserre, ‘Aux origines de l'anthologie: I. Le papyrus P. Brit. Mus. inv. 589 (Pack 1121)’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 102 (1959), 222-47 (pp. 224, 227).
François Lasserre, ‘Post-Scriptum à l'interprétation du P. Brit. Mus. inv. 589’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 103 (1960) 191-92.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Peter J. Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 1983), pp. 112-13, no. 961 (with further bibliography).
Menico Caroli, Il titolo iniziale nel rotolo librario greco-egizio: con un catalogo delle testimonianze iconografiche greche e di area vesuviana (Bari: Levante, 2007), pp. 133-41, no. P1, with plates 13-14.
Verso
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xvii, no. 589(b) descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 48-49, no. 65.
Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 10 (1932), 19-70 (p. 64).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)