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Papyrus 694
- Record Id:
- 040-002105080
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000357
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472048.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 694
- Title:
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Comedy (P.Grenf. II 8(b), TM 65750, LDAB 7004, MP3 1661)
- Scope & Content:
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Two fragments from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, containing portions of an unknown comic play. The attribution of the text to Philemon has been debated, as well as the suggestion that it may belong to Papyrus 1823 (see Körte, ‘Literarische Texte’ (1941)).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105080 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 694 : Comedy (P.Grenf. II 8(b), TM 65750, LDAB 7004, MP3 1661) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0387]/040-002105080
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two fragments from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, covered with plaster residue in places; written on one side along the fibres and preserving the tops of two columns written along the fibres. The fragments are mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147472048.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 70 x 184 mm; B: 55 x 136 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 230 mm.
Script: Good-sized, rather irregular upright with cursive traits.
- 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(b)
P.Lond.Lit. 91 - 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.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), pp. 18-19, no. 8(b).
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 694 descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 64, no. 91.
Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 14 (1941), 121-24 (p. 121).
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 286.
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci, 1-8 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), 8: Adespota (1995), no. 1004.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus, 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 37, 57).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)