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Papyrus 691(A-B)
- Record Id:
- 040-002105076
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000353
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472037.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 691(A-B)
- Title:
- Gnomic Anthology (P.Grenf. II 6(b), TM 65719), and a Comedy (?) (P.Lond.Lit. 93, TM 65749)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper left-hand fragment (A) (P.Grenf. II 6(b), P.Lond.Lit. 83, TM 65719, LDAB 6973): Portion of a gnomic anthology in iambic trimeters (interpreted previously as an unknown tragedy); assigned to the middle of the 3rd century BC. Papyrus 2989 (P.Hib. II 224), and P. Heid. inv. G. 434 may be further fragments of the same anthology.
Upper right-hand fragment (B) (P.Lond.Lit. 93, TM 65749, LDAB 7003): Iambic lines from a new comedy, mentioning a man called Damoxenus.
Four additional scraps, bearing a few letters or covered with plaster.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105076 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 691(A-B) : Gnomic Anthology (P.Grenf. II 6(b), TM 65719), and a Comedy (?) (P.Lond.Lit. 93, TM 65749) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0383]/040-002105076
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Six fragments recovered from mummy cartonnage, not all belonging together; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Upper left-hand fragment (A): Fragment of a light-brown papyrus roll, with darker patch at the bottom, extracted from mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears portions of 20 lines lacking beginnings and ends; letters are between 2 and 4 mm high; interlinear space is 3 mm on average. The lower margin survives to 15 mm. The back is blank. Papyrus 2989 and a papyrus in Heidelberg (inventoried as G 434), may belong to the same roll.
Upper right-hand fragment (B): Light-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides, with portions of 14 lines written along the fibres. The back is blank.
Fragments at the bottom: varying size, with a few letters on one side along the fibres, or covered with plaster and illegible. Back blank.
- Digitised Content:
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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: A: 132 x 33 mm; upper right fragment: 70 x 45 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 245 x 165 mm.
Script: A: Informal hand, skilled but rather irregular; mostly square and somewhat compressed, with some small letterforms (see omicron and epsilon); overall bilinear, with some uprights descending below the line; with serifs in places. B: Small and overall regular hand, with some cursive traits in places; with some small letterforms (see omicron) and large letters (e.g. pi, gamma).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy A). 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(b)
P.Lond. III 691(a) descr.
P.Lond. III 691(b) descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 83
P.Lond.Lit. 93 - 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. 15, no. 6(b).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, vol. III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 691(a) descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), p. 60, no. 83.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). Vols. 1-5 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 2: Fragmenta Adespota, Testimonia Volumini 1 addenda, Indices ad Volumina 1 et 2 (1981), p. 197, no. 633.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Disiecta colligere: un'antologia gnomica tra Londra e Heidelberg (P. Grenf. II 6B + P. Hib. II 224 + P. Heid. Inv. G. 434)?’, Analecta Papyrologica 25 (2013), 65-77, with plate.
Maria S. Funghi, Carlo Pernigotti, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 2, Frammenti adespoti; Gnomologi e sentenze. 3, Gnomica (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2017), pp. 176-9, Gnom. 26.
B
Greek Papyri in the British Museum, vol. III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 691(b) descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), pp. 65-6, no. 91.
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 275.
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci, vols 1-8 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), vol. 8: Adespota (1995), no. 1057.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)