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Papyrus 690(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002105075
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000352
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472033.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 690(A-B)
- Title:
- Sophocles, Niobe (P.Grenf. II 6(a), TM 62769), and Fragments of a Play (P.Grenf. II 6(c), TM 65718)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments extracted from mummy cartonnage.
A (P.Grenf. II 6(a), P.Lond.Lit. 68, TM 62769, LDAB 3957): Fragments of Sophocles’s Niobe, with the goddess Artemis killing the daughters of Niobe. P.Hib. I 11 is another fragment of the same papyrus.
B (P.Grenf. II 6(c), P.Lond.Lit. 82, TM 65718, LDAB 6972): Two fragments of a tragedy or comedy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105075 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 690(A-B) : Sophocles, Niobe (P.Grenf. II 6(a), TM 62769), and Fragments of a Play (P.Grenf. II 6(c), TM 65718) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0382]/040-002105075
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Six papyrus fragments recovered from mummy cartonnage, housed in the same glass frame.
A: Four fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres. On the front, each fragment preserves the middle of a column. The back bears traces of plaster of the painted decoration. Another fragment of the same roll has been published as P.Hib. I 11 and is now at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
B: Two small fragments, broken off on all sides, written on one side along the fibres. Each fragment preserves portions of a few lines (7 and 8 lines respectively) running along the fibres. The back is blank.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472033.0x000001 (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: Largest: 82 x 70 mm; B: Larger fragment: 40 x 38 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 370 x 185 mm.
Script: A: Neat, upright hand of small size, with some large letterforms; generally bilinear, with omicron tending to occupy the upper part of the line and some letters projective above and below the writing line. B: Medium-sized upright hand, with serifs in places.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 14 November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 6(a)
P.Grenf. II 6(c)
P.Lond.Lit. 68
P.Lond.Lit. 82 - 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), p. 14, no. 6(a), with plate.
Friedrich Blass, ‘Vermischtes zu den griechischen Lyrikern und aus Papyri’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 55 (1900), 91-103 (pp. 96-101).
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri, Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 40-41, 44, no. 11.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 690.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 223.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 50, no. 68.
Denys L. Page, Greek Literary Papyri, 2 vols. (London: Heinemann, 1942), 1, pp. 144-47, no. 22.
Akiko Kiso, ‘The Niobe of Sophocles: a glimpse of Sophocles as a young dramatist’, Journal of Classical Studies, 13 (1965), 51-62.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. 5 vols. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 4 (1977), nos. 442-45a.
Manuel F. Galiano, ‘Diez años de papirología literaria’, Estudios clásicos, 23 (1979), 273-304.
Piero Totaro, ‘La Niobe di Eschilo e di Sofocle: il contributo dei papiri’, in I papiri di Eschilo e di Sofocle. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi. Firenze, 14-15 giugno 2012, ed. by Guido Bastianini, Angelo A. Casanova (Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2013), pp. 1-18 (p. 2).
B
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), p. 15, no. 6(c), with plate.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 690.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), no. 225.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 60, no. 82.
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 361.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. 5 volumes. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 2 (1981), p. 231.
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci. 8 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), Vol. 8: Adespota (1995), p. 295, no. 1003.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)