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Papyrus 689
- Record Id:
- 040-002105073
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000350
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472028.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 689
- Title:
- Homer, Iliad VIII (P.Hib. I 21, P.Lond.Lit. 16, P.Grenf. II 2, TM 61237, LDAB 2377), and Iliad IV (P.Hib. I 20, P.Lond.Lit. 10, P.Grenf. II 3, TM 61206, LDAB 2346)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (P.Hib. I 21, TM 61237): Fragment of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage and containing parts of Homer, Iliad VIII, with several plus-verses. Additional fragments of the same roll are Papyrus 1827 (preserving Iliad VIII 17-22, 24-32, 38-73, 180-4, 189-90, 203-6, 216-21. 249-53, 255-8 + unidentified lines), and P.Heid. inv. 1261 (preserving Iliad VIII 190-202). This fragment, together with Papyrus 1827(M), bears portions of Iliad VIII 216(a)-219, 249-53.
Lower papyrus (B) (P.Hib. I 20, TM 61206): Fragment of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage and containing parts of Homer, Iliad IV 109-113. Additional fragments of the same roll are preserved in Papyrus 1826, which contains Iliad III 347-51, 354-6, 383-94, Iliad IV 19-22, 55-72, 80-83, 86-91, 98-102, and Iliad V 525-32, 796-803. The text displays absence of plus-verses and omits three lines (Iliad III 389, IV 89, V 527).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105073 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 689 : Homer, Iliad VIII (P.Hib. I 21, P.Lond.Lit. 16, P.Grenf. II 2, TM 61237, LDAB 2377), and Iliad IV (P.Hib. I 20, P.Lond.Lit. 10,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0380]/040-002105073
- 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; with writing on one side, their back being blank; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Further fragments are Papyrus 1827 and P.Heid. inv. 1261; Broken off on all sides, with plaster residue and traces of red paint; portions of two columns; of the first column, the ends of four lines survive, of the second, the beginnings of eight lines and a small trace of ink from another line at the bottom.
Lower Papyrus (B): The fragment belongs to Papyrus 1826; broken off on all sides, with portions of five lines, and traces of another line at the top. The original column had about 40 lines.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Latin
- 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: 49 x 102 mm; B: 29 x 60 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 155 x 155 mm.
Script: A: Small, slightly sloping book hand, with archaic form of omega and contrast between narrow and broad letterforms. B: Carefully formed, angular bookhand; lettrs are regularly spaced, overall bilinear, although some uprights extend above and below the writing line; some letters, like omicron and sigma, are smaller and narrower.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Both fragments were 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 2
P.Grenf. II 3
P.Hib. I 20
P.Hib. I 21
P.Lond. III 689(a) descr.
P.Lond. III 689(b) descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 10
P.Lond.Lit. 16 - 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.
A
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), pp. 4-5, no. 2, with plate (Pap.689(a) only).
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 88-96, no. 21, with pl. VI.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 689(a) descr.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 32, no. 556.Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 23-4, no. 16.
Stephanie West, The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer (Köln-Opladen: Westdeutscher Verl., 1967), pp. 74-90 (with further bibliography).
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Münich-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), p. 88, no. 7.
Dieter Hagedorn, Ursula Hagedorn, ‘Drei Iliasfragmente der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung’, in Der Freund des Menschen: Festschrift für Georg Christian Macholz zur Vollendung des 70. Lebensjahres, ed. by Arndt Meinhold, Angelika Berlejung (Neukirchener: Vandenhoeck & Ruprech, 2003), pp. 209-22 (pp. 216-20, no. 3, with plate).
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 36, 46).
B
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), p. 5, no. 3, with plate.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 84-88, no. 20, with pl. VI.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 689(b) descr.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 29, no. 505.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 21, no. 10.
Stephanie West, The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer (Köln-Opladen: Westdeutscher Verl., 1967), pp. 64-70 (with further bibliography).
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Münich-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), p. 90, no. 41.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 36, 46).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)