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Papyrus 695
- Record Id:
- 040-002105081
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000358
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147472053.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 695
- Title:
- Old Comedy (P.Grenf. II 12, TM 59259), Oracle Question (SB XXIV 16260, TM 45411), and Xenophon, Memorabilia (P.Grenf. II 13, TM 63008)
- Scope & Content:
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Left papyrus (A)
Recto (P.Grenf. II 12, P.Lond.Lit. 86, TM 59259, LDAB 356): Fragment of a lost comedy, possibly by Aristophanes (perhaps from Thesmophoriazusae or Gerytades), in contrast to the first editors, who considered it a lost tragedy (Euripides, Melanippe Desmotis); with marginal annotations, apparently referring to a previous column, now lost. Assigned to the second century.
Verso (SB XXIV 16260, TM 45411): Draft of an oracle question from the third century, addressed to the gods Soknopaios and Sokonpiaiis from a certain Aphrodisios.
Right papyrus (B) (P.Grenf. II 13, P.Lond.Lit. 149, TM 63008, LDAB 4200): Fragment of a roll containing Xenophon’s Memorabilia I.3.115, 4.1-3 from the third or fourth century, with portions of a document, apparently a letter, at the top and on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105081 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 695 : Old Comedy (P.Grenf. II 12, TM 59259), Oracle Question (SB XXIV 16260, TM 45411), and Xenophon, Memorabilia (P.Grenf. II 13, TM 63008) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0388]/040-002105081
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Left papyrus: Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom, broken off on the other sides; with writing on both sides. On the front, there are the beginnings of 8 lines written along the fibres, and 7 lines written in the left margin; the lower margin survives to 55 mm. The papyrus was cut and reused for the text on the back, which consists of 5 lines written along the fibres, abraded in places. Margins are extant.
Right papyrus: Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll, with writing on both sides. On the front, there remain portions of 2 columns running along the fibres; the upper margin survives to 57 mm. The back bears one column, abraded in places, running across the fibres.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 111 x 87 mm; B: 175 x 90 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 255 mm.
Script: A: Recto: Severe Style; slightly sloping to the right; small cursive hand, slanting to the right, for the marginal annotations. B: Fair-sized, neat and proficient upright cursive hand. B: Recto: Severe Style, sloping to the right; cursive writing at the top; Verso: Cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: A: Soknopaiou Nesos (Dimeh), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. B: 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 12
P.Grenf. II 13
P.Lond.Lit. 149
P.Lond.Lit. 86
SB XXIV 16260 - 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
Recto
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), p. 24, no. 12, with pl. iii.
Friedrich Blass, rec. on Grenfell-Hunt 1897, Literarisches Zentralblatt 48 (1897), col. 334.
Henri Weil, ‘Un nouveau fragment de Phérécyde de Syros’, Revue des Études Grecques 10 (1897), 1-9 (pp. 7-8).
Otto Crusius, ‘Sur un fragment poétique dans les papyrus Grenfell’, in Mélanges Henri Weil. Recueil de mémoires concernant l’histoire et la littérature grecques dédié à Henri Weil (Paris: A. Fontemoing, 1898), pp. 81-90.
Henricus van Herwerden, Collectanea critica, epicritica, exegetica (Lugduni-Batavorum: A.W. Sijthoff, 1903), p. 39.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 695(a) descr.
Jan Demianczuk, Supplementum comicum: Comoediae Graecae fragmenta post editiones Kockianam et Kaibelianam reperta vel indicata (Kraków: Nakładem Akądemii umijeętności, 1912), p. 298, no. 12.
K. Kuiper, ‘Ad Satyri fragmentum de vita Euripidis adnotationes duae’, Mnemosyne 41 (1913), 233-42 (pp. 237-38).
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), p. 8, no. 92.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 62, no. 86.
John M. Edmonds, The Fragments of Attic Comedy, after Meineke, Bergk, and Kock Augmented (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1957), pp. 962-63.
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 226.
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci. 1-8 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), Vol. 8: Adespota (1995), p. 296, no. 1005.
Peter van Minnen, ‘Boorish or Bookish? Literature in Egyptian Villages in the Fayum in the Graeco-Roman period’, Journal of Juristic Papyrology 28 (1998), 99-184 (p. 145, n. 137).
Fausto Montana, ‘Aristophanes’, in Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta, ed. by Guido Bastianini, Michael Haslam, Herwig Maehler, Franco Montanari, Cornelia E. Römer, Pars I: Commentaria et Lexica in auctores; vol. 1, fasc.4: Aristophanes – Bacchylides (München-Leipzig: K.G. Sauer, 2006), pp. 236-237.
Kathleen McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists, 2007), p. 452, no. 1625.
Serena Perrone, ‘Comoedia vetus’, in Commentaria et lexica graeca in papyris reperta. Commentaria in adespota (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2009) pp. 25-29, no. 2 (with further bibliography).
Verso
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), p. 24, no. 12 verso descr.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 695(a) descr.
Gabriella Messeri Savorelli, Rosario Pintaudi, ‘Due domande oracolari in greco’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 111 (1996), 183–187 (pp. 185-87, with plate vi b).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band XXIV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003), no. 16260.
B
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), pp. 24-25, no. 13.
Hermann A. Diels, in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Phil.-Hist. Klasse (1897), 144.
Edgar C. Marchant, Xenophontis opera omnia. 1-5 vols, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900-1920), vol 2: Commentarii, Oeconomicus, Convivium, Apologia Socratis (1901), pp. xii-xiv.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 695(b) descr.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), no. 1154.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 123, no. 149.
Natascia Pellé, ‘Senofonte su rotoli riutilizzati’, Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia 2004, 109-11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)