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Papyrus 591(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002104973
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000290
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471982.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 591(A-B)
- Title:
- Literary Texts (P.Lond.Lit. 81, 159, TM 65746, 62834, 62835)
- Scope & Content:
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Left papyrus (A) (P.Lond.Lit. 81, TM 65746, LDAB 7000, MP3 1712.1): Iambic lines from an unknown tragedy, with stichometry (delta = 400).
Right papyrus (B)
Recto (P.Lond.Lit. 159(a), TM 62834, LDAB 4025, MP3 2593): Portion of a philosophical dialogue, apparently on the kinship of mankind, attributed to Theophrastus, Hermarchus, or Xenocrates.
Verso (P.Lond.Lit. 159(b), TM 62835, LDAB 4024, MP3 2862): Portion of an unknown work in prose by Theophrastus, apparently of philosophical content.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104973 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 591(A-B) : Literary Texts (P.Lond.Lit. 81, 159, TM 65746, 62834, 62835) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1452]/040-002104973
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments that do not belong together, extracted from mummy cartonnage, housed in a glass frame.
Left papyrus (A): Papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; written on one side along the fibres; the front bears parts of 2 columns. Of the first, the ends of 21 lines remain, of the second the beginnings of the same number; the back bears no writing and is partly covered with plaster.
Right papyrus (B): Fragment from a medium-brown papyrus roll, imperfect at the foot and with plaster residue in places; written on both sides. The front bears portions of 4 columns written along the fibres; the column width is about 65 mm. The upper margin survives. The back bears parts of 3 columns written across the fibres and broken off at the bottom.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471982.0x000001 (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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 128 x 40 mm; B: 120 x 210 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 330 mm.
Script: A: Medium-sized, upright hand. B: Recto: Rather square uncial hand, bilinear; with some large letterforms and serifs in places; paragraphus used to mark change of speakers. Verso: Upright, square hand, punctuation space occurs in one place.
- 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 cartonnage found in Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (b. 1853, d. 1942) in 1889-1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 159(a)
P.Lond.Lit. 159(b)
P.Lond.Lit. 81
P.Petr. II 49(d)cc
P.Petr. II 49(e) - 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. 513.
A
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 161, no. 49(d)cc.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xviii, no. 591 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 59-60, no. 81.
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.), p. 130, no. 26.
B
Recto
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 162, no. 49(e).
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xviii, no. 591 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 128, no. 159(A).
Claire Gorteman, ‘Un fragment du Пεϱί εύσεβείας de Théophraste dans le P. Petrie II 49 e?’, Chronique d'Égypte, 33 (1958), 79-101.
Maria Serena Funghi, Amneris Roselli, in Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di studi, 1 (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1997), pp. 49-69.
Verso
John P. Mahaffy, The Flinders Petrie papyri, with transcription, commentaries and index, II (Dublin: The Academy House, 1893), p. 162, no. 49(e).
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xviii, no. 591 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 128-29, no. 159(B).
Maria Serena Funghi, Amneris Roselli, in Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di studi, 1 (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1997), pp. 49-69.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)