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Papyrus 732

Record Id:

040-002105119

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003be

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 732

Title:

Homer, Iliad XIII-XIV (P.Lond.Lit. 22, TM 60261, LDAB 1381, MP³ 899)

Scope & Content:

Recto

Fragments of a roll containing Iliad XIII-XIV, with stichometry and end-title.

Papyrus 732(1)

Left fragment: Iliad XIII 2-12.

Mid fragment: column 1: ends of Iliad XIII 38-56; column 2: Iliad XIII 73-87.

Right fragment: ends of 149-186.

Unplaced fragments.

Papyrus 732(2)

Column 1: Iliad XIII 187-224 with line number in the margin.

Column 2: Iliad XIII 225-263.

Column 3: Iliad XIII 264-301.

Papyrus 732(3)

Column 1: Iliad XIII 302-341, with line number in the margin.

Column 2: Iliad XIII 342-379.

Column 3: Iliad XIII 380-417 with line number in the margin.

Papyrus 732(4)

Left fragment: Iliad XIII 418-436.

Right fragment: Column 1: Iliad XIII 456-495; Column 2: Iliad XIII 496-534.

Papyrus 732(5)

Column 1: Iliad XIII 535-572.

Column 2: Iliad XIII 573-616 with omission of lines 602-606 and marginal line number.

Column 3: Iliad XIII 617-653.

Papyrus 732(6)

Left fragment: Iliad XIII 657-674.

Right fragment: Iliad XIII 740-747, with trace of Iliad XIII 739.

Papyrus 732(7)

Column 1: Iliad XIV 120-158.

Column 2: Iliad XIV 159-197.

Column 3: Iliad XIV 198-237 with line number in the margin.

Papyrus 732(8)

Left fragment: Iliad XIV 238-277.

Mid fragments: Iliad XIV 278-293.

Right fragments: ends of Iliad XIV 332-354.

Papyrus 732(9)

Column 1: Iliad XIV 358-396.

Column 2: Iliad XIV 396-436 with marginal line number.

Column 3: Iliad XIV 437-476.

Papyrus 732(10)

Left-mid fragments: Iliad XIV 480-515 with marginal line number.

Right fragment: Iliad XIV 516-522 with end-title in two lines with ornamentation and stichometrical notation.

Verso of Papyrus 732(2), Papyrus 732(7), Papyrus 732(9), and Papyrus 732(10): strips of papyrus with cursive writing, added to strengthen the surface.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105119

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 732 : Homer, Iliad XIII-XIV (P.Lond.Lit. 22, TM 60261, LDAB 1381, MP3 899)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0426]/040-002105119

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank except for the strips glued onto it in order to strengthen the surface, which bear writing. Portions of 36 columns survive; each column contained between 37 and 40 lines, being 95 mm wide and 180 mm high. The space between the columns measures on average 20 mm; the upper margin survives to 23 mm and the lower to 27 mm. The surface is occasionally damaged.

The fragments are housed in ten glass cases, named Papyrus 732 (1), Papyrus 732 (2), Papyrus 732 (3), Papyrus 732 (4), Papyrus 732 (5), Papyrus 732 (6), Papyrus 732 (7), Papyrus 732 (8), Papyrus 732 (9), Papyrus 732 (10); they are mounted on cardboard with the exception of the fragments housed in Papyrus 732(2), Papyrus 732(7), Papyrus 732(9), and Papyrus 732(10), the back of which displays written strips of papyrus added later as a support. The unplaced fragments are housed in Papyrus 732(1).

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0000

End Date:

0099

Date Range:

1st century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; height of the roll: 225 mm. Housed in 10 glass cases named Papyrus 732(1), Papyrus 732(2), Papyrus 732(3), Papyrus 732(4), Papyrus 732(5), Papyrus 732(6), Papyrus 732(7), Papyrus 732(8), Papyrus 732(9), and Papyrus 732(10), all measuring 280 x 430 mm.

Script: Fine and ornate bookhand of fairly small size, regular and careful, mostly bilinear. A few mistakes occur. Dots, accents, breathings, marks of elision and diaereses were added later; occasional corrections in two hands, one being a small cursive hand, and the other displaying rough uncials. The strips of papyrus added on the back to strengthen the surface bear rapid cursive writing.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 13 February 1897 with the Farnborough Fund.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 22

Former Internal References:

Egerton Papyrus 32

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 542.

A. S. Hunt, ‘A New Homeric Papyrus’, The Journal of Philology 26 (1898), pp. 25-59.

F. G. Kenyon, The palaeography of Greek papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899), p. 97.

E. M. Thomspon, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), facs. 12.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 25, no. 22.

D. Harlfinger, G. Prato (eds.), Paleografia e codicologia greca, Atti del II colloquio internazionale, II, (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 1991), p. 23.

G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), pp. 88, 118, and pl. 25a.

G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), pp. 104-105, no. 66.

G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 78.

F. Schironi, ‘Book-Ends and Book-Layout in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry’, in T. Gagos, A. Hyatt, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4 2007 (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library 2010), pp. 695–704 (p. 702).

F. Schironi, To mega biblion: book-ends, end-titles, and coronides in papyri with hexametric poetry (Durham, N.C.: American Society of Papyrologists 2010), pp. 114-115, no. 15.

Exhibitions:

Troy, British Museum, London, 21 November 2019 - 8 March 2020

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000036354151X