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Papyrus 693
- Record Id:
- 040-002105079
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000356
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469275.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 693
- Title:
- Lyric Fragments (P.Grenf. II 8(a), P.Lond.Lit. 49, TM 62930, LDAB 4122, MP3 1538)
- Scope & Content:
- Lyric fragments attributed to Timotheus; part of the same roll as P.Baden VI 178.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105079 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 693 : Lyric Fragments (P.Grenf. II 8(a), P.Lond.Lit. 49, TM 62930, LDAB 4122, MP3 1538) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0386]/040-002105079
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of the same papyrus roll as P.Baden VI 178, housed in Heidelberg; from mummy cartonnage; broken off on all sides, with writing along the fibres on the front, the back being blank. The left fragment bears portions of 7 lines from the bottom of a column; the right fragment bears parts of 9 lines from the bottom of a column. No margin survives. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469275.0x000001 (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: Left fragment: 68x 83 mm; Right fragment: 85 x 60 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 135 x 205 mm.
Script: Small to medium-sized upright hand, somewhat irregular in size, with contrast between oblong and broad letters.
- 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 8(a)
P.Lond.Lit. 49 - 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), p. 18, no. 8(a).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxvi, no. 693 descr.
G. A. Gerhard, Veröffentlichungen aus den badischen Papyrus-Sammlungen VI. Griechische Papyri (Heidelberg: C. Winter 1938), no. 178, with pl. ii.
H. Oellacher, ‘Griechische Papyri. Urkunden und Literarische Texte aus der Papyrus-Sammlung Heidelberg by Gustav Adolf Gerhard’, Gnomon 16 (1940), pp. 507-512 (pp. 507-509).
E. Diehl, Anthologia Lyrica Graeca II(2) (Leipzig: Teubner 1942), Timotheos Fr. 3 A-B.
D. L. Page, Select Papyri III. Literary Papyri. Poetry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1950), no. 89.
D. L. Page, Poetae Melici Graeci (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1962), no. 925.
J. Diggle, ‘Notes on Greek Lyric Poets’, The Classical Review 84 (1970), pp. 5-6.
R. Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri II.2 (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann 1970), no. 7, with pl. iv.7.
D. L. Page, Supplementum Lyricis Graecis (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1974), p. 158.
D. A. Campbell, Greek Lyric V. The new school of poetry and anonymous songs and hymns (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1993), no. 925.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 36.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), p. 42, no. 12.
L. Del Corso, ‘Death, Books and Mummies: Scattered Remarks on Some Greek Literary Papyri in Funerary Context’, in A. D'Ottone Rambach (ed.), Palaeography Between East and West. Proceedings of the Seminars on Arabic Palaeography held at Sapienza, University of Rome (Roma-Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore 2018), pp. 29-52 (p. 47).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)