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Papyrus 605

Record Id:

040-002104989

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00029f

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147472011.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 605

Title:

Loan (P.Dryton 11, TM 246), and Fragmentum Grenfellianum (P.Dryton 50, TM 65616, LDAB 6867)

Scope & Content:

Recto (P.Dryton 11, TM 246): Loan of wheat dated 10 October 174 BC; Dryton features as a debtor, and the creditor is Sosistratus. The subscription of the scribe is at the end.

Verso (P.Dryton 50, TM 65616, LDAB 6867, MP³ 1743): 'Fragmentum Grenfellianum', or ‘Alexandrian erotic fragment’, a mime in verses by an unknown author on the lament of a woman abandoned by her lover and complaining in front of his house. The text was copied by Dryton.

Another fragment of the same papyrus is now at the Sackler Library, Oxford, inventoried as 89A/45(d).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104989

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 605 : Loan (P.Dryton 11, TM 246), and Fragmentum Grenfellianum (P.Dryton 50, TM 65616, LDAB 6867)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1425]/040-002104989

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus, another fragment of which now at the Sackler Library, Oxford, inventoried as 89A/45(d). Writing runs on both sides. The front contains one column running along the fibres and lacking the left-hand side. Upper, lower and right margins are extant, the right being ample. The back bears one complete column and portions of another column written across the fibres. Upper, lower and left margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0199

End Date:

-0100

Date Range:

2nd century BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 168 x 205 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 255 mm.

Script: Recto: Neat, upright hand with small serifs in places; different hand for the subscription of the scribe in the last line. Verso: Small, upright semi-cursive hand; hand of Dryton.

Custodial History:

Origin: Dios polis (Thebes East), Egypt.

Provenance: Pathyris (Gebelein), Pathyrite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 605-650 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 9 November 1895.

Former External References:

P.Dryton 11
P.Dryton 50
P.Grenf. I 1
P.Grenf. I 10
P.Lond. III 605 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 50

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 520.

Recto

Bernard P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896), pp. 21-25, no. 10.

Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xix, no. 605 descr.

Katelijn Vandorpe, The bilingual family archive of Dryton, his wife Apollonia and their daughter Senmouthis (P. Dryton) (Brussel: Het Comité Klassieke Studies, Subcomité Hellenisme, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 2002), no. 11.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), p. 64.

Nikolaos Gonis, ‘New Texts from the Archive(s) of Dryton and Apollonia’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 52 (2006), 197-204 (pp. 199-200, no. 1).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, XII (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2017), p. 86.

Verso

Bernard P. Grenfell, An Alexandrian erotic fragment and other Greek papyri chiefly Ptolemaic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896), pp. 1-6, no. 1.

Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xix, no. 605 descr.

Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 37, no. 50.

Giovanni Battista Pighi, ‘Il Fragm. erot. Grenfellianum tradotto in un poemetto latino moderno’, Aegyptus, 31 (1951), 87.

Alfonsi Luigi, ‘Dal "Lamento della fanciulla abbandonata" a Properzio’, Aegyptus, 44 (1964), 3-8.

Martin L. West, ‘Metrical Analyses: Timotheos and Others, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 45 (1982), 1-13 (pp. 12-13).

Ian C. Cunningham, Herodas. Mimiambi (Leipzig: Teubner, 1987), pp. 36-38, no. 1.

Franco Maltomini, ‘PGM IV 354-55 (e paralleli) e fragmentum Grenfellianum 18-19’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 78 (1989), 95-97.

Andrea Cozzolino, ‘Il carme III 13 del Corpus Tibullianum ed il Fragmentum Grenfellianum’, Athenaeum, 80 (1992), 475-78.

Elena Esposito, ‘Il pubblico del mimo populare nell'Egitto tolemaico: Dryton e il Grenfellianum’, Eikasmos, 13 (2002), 199-214.’

Nikolaos Gonis, ‘New Texts from the Archive(s) of Dryton and Apollonia’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 52 (2006), 197-204 (pp. 200-201, no. 2).

Ester Cerbo, ‘Elementi di drammatizzazione nel Fragmentum Grenfellianum’, in Teatro Greco Postclassico E Teatro Latino, Teorie E Prassi Drammatica: Atti Del Convegno Internazionale, Roma, 16-18 Ottobre 2001 (Roma: Herder, 2003),101-10.

Elena Esposito, ‘Il lamento dell'esclusa (in margine alla protagonista del Grenfellianum)’, Prometheus, 30 (2004), 235-45.

Elena Esposito, Il fragmentum Grenfellianum (P. Dryton 50): introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Bologna: Pàtron, 2005).

Luigi Battezzato, ‘The fragmentum Grenfellianum : metrical analysis, ancient punctuation, and the sense of an ending’, in The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp. Mnemosyne. Supplementum, 314 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2009), pp. 403-20.

Anselm C. Hagedorn, ‘Jealousy and Desire at Night. Fragmentum Grenfellianum and Song of Songs’, in Perspectives on the Song of Songs (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2012), pp. 206-27.

Maria Grazia Bonanno, ‘Una congettura al Fragmentum Grenfellianum’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 191 (2014), 59-60.

Christophe Cusset, Antje Kolde, ‘Fragments of a Female Lover's Discourse: Inconsistent Discourse or Consistent Text? The Fragmentum Grenfellianum (P. Dryton 50)’, in Fragments, Holes, and Wholes. Reconstructing the Ancient World in Theory and Practice, edited by Tomasz Derda, Jennifer Hilder, Jan Kwapisz, The Journal of Juristic Papyrology. Supplements, 30 (2017), 199-215.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Dryton, cavalry-man; son of Pamphilus, 192-126 BC

Places:

Dios Polis (Thebes East), Egypt
Pathyris, Egypt

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the Archive of Dryton, Apollonia and Descendants (TM Arch ID 74). Another fragment of the same papyrus is now at the Sackler Library, Oxford, inventoried as 89A/45(d).