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Papyrus 590
- Record Id:
- 040-002104972
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00028f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469183.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 590
- Title:
- Euripides, Hypsipyle (P.Petr. II 49(c), P.Lond.Lit. 74, TM 59928, LDAB 1038, MP3 439)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragment from mummy cartonnage containing Euripides’ Hypsypyle 830-850.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104972 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 590 : Euripides, Hypsipyle (P.Petr. II 49(c), P.Lond.Lit. 74, TM 59928, LDAB 1038, MP3 439) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1450]/040-002104972
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus fragment, from mummy cartonnage, broken off on the sides and with surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column of 21 lines, with parts of the upper and lower margins. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469183.0x000001 (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: 188 x 76 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 105 mm.
Script: Small to medium-sized upright hand, thin, irregular in size, shape and spacing, with contrast between narrow and broad letters.
- 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. 74
P.Petr. II 49(c) - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), pp. 517-518.
The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index. Part II (Dublin: The Academy House 1893), p. 160, no. 49(c).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xviii, no. 590 descr.
Fr. Petersen, ‘Ein übersehenes Papyrusblatt der Hypsipyle’, Hermes 49 (1914), pp. 156-158.
Fr. Petersen, ‘Ad Hypsipylae fr. 22 et 60’, Hermes 49 (1914), pp. 623-626.
G. Italie, Euripidis Hypsipyla (Berlin: A. Ebering 1923), pp. 36-38.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 221.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 52-53, no. 74.
G. W. Bond, Euripides: Hypsipyle (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1963), p. 25 and passim.
C. Austin, ‘Euripides, Hypsipyle Fr. I. i. 5 (Bond, p. 25)’, The Classical Review 16 (1966), p. 275.
W. E. H. Cockle, Euripides. Hypsipyle: text and annotation based on re-examination of the papyri (Roma: Ed. dell'Ateneo 1987), pp. 135-136, with pl. x.
R. Kannicht (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF) 5: Euripides. Vol. 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 2004), fr. 757.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), pp. 40-41, no. 10, with pl.
P. 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. 40-43, no. 4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)