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Papyrus 688
- Record Id:
- 040-002105072
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00034f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469270.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 688
- Title:
- Tragedy (P.Grenf. II 1, P.Lond.Lit. 80, P.Lond. III 688 descr., TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP3 1708)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments from the same roll as Papyrus 1822, containing trimeters from a tragedy: post-classical? or Euripides’ Oeneus?
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105072 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 688 : Tragedy (P.Grenf. II 1, P.Lond.Lit. 80, P.Lond. III 688 descr., TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP3 1708) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1170]/040-002105072
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Three fragments of varying size from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 1822, reused as mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Upper left fragment (A.1): Portions of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom; lacking beginnings and ends; no margin extant.
Upper right fragment (A.2): Small fragment with few letters from three lines, wanting beginnings and ends; part of the upper margin survives.
Lower fragment (B): Layer of horizontal fibres lost at the top; traces of two columns; of the first, the ends of 8 lines survive; of the second column, only scant traces from the beginnings of few lines.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469270.0x000001 (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: Fragments of varying size, the largest meauring 60 x 111 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 195 x 140 mm.
Script: Delicate hand, with small, skilful capitals, written slowly with a fine pen; archaic letter-forms. Paragraphus marks change of speaker.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 689-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 1
P.Lond. III 688 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 80 - 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. 535.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 1-4, no. 1.
O. Rossbach, in Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 19 (1899), pp. 1630-1631.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1906), pp. 21-24, no. 4, with pl. 1.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxv, no. 688 descr.
H. V. Arnim, Supplementum Euripideum (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber’s Verlag 1913), pp. 38-40.
A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 5 (1913), pp. 532-572 (p. 570).
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 344.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 59, no. 80.
D. L. Page, Greek Literary Papyri I (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1942), pp. 158-159, no. 28.
T. B. L. Webster, ‘Fourth Century Tragedy and the Poetics’, Hermes 82 (1954), pp. 294-308 (p. 302).
Der kleine Pauly 1 Band 1: Aachen – Dichalkon (München: Druckenmüller, 1964), p. 1121.
Ch. Collard, ‘On the Tragedian Chaeremon’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 90 (1970), pp. 22-34 (pp.23-24).
G. Xanthakis-Karamanos, Studies in Fourth-Century Tragedy (Athens: the Academy of Athens 1980), p. l72.
R. Kannicht, B. Snell (eds.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF) Vol. II: Fragmenta Adespota (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1981), 625.
P. Carrara, ‘TrGF ll F 625: Frammenti dell'Eneo di Euripide’, Prometheus 12 (1986), pp. 25-32.
E. G. Turner, P. J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 92-93, no. 52.
G. Xanthakis-Karamanos, ‘Additional remarks on the possible attribution of some papyrus-fragments to post-classical tragedies’, in B. G. Mandēlaras (ed.), Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology: Athens, 25-31 May 1986 (Athens: Greek Papyrological Society 1988), pp. 403-417 (p. 408, n. 19-20; pp. 406-412).
Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Tragica I’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 73 (1988), pp. 207-247 (pp. 237-247).
Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Nachtrag zu Tragica I und II’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 82 (1990), pp. 35-37 (p. 37).
E. Crisci, ‘I più antichi libri greci: note bibliologiche e paleografiche su rotoli papiracei del IV-III secolo a.C.’, Scrittura e Civiltà 23 (1999), pp. 29-62 (pp. 49-50, with pl. 9a).
F. Jouan, H. van Looy, Euripides. Fragments II (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2000), p. 472.
E. Crisci, ‘Per uno studio paleografico e bibliologico dei più antichi libri greci (IV-III secolo a.C.)’, in I. Andorlini, G. Bastianini, M. Manfredi, G. Menci (eds.), Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 2001), pp. 287-300 (p. 296).
L. Del Corso, ‘Scritture ‘formali’ e scritture ‘informali’ nei cartonnages di Al-Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), pp. 33-100 (pp. 45-46).
L. Del Corso, ‘La scrittura greca di età ellenistica nei papiri greco-egizi. Considerazioni preliminari’, Analecta Papyrologica 18-20 (2006-2008), pp. 207-267 (p. 222, 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. 45-47.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)