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Papyrus 740
- Record Id:
- 040-002105128
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003c6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469305.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 740
- Title:
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New Comedy (P.Oxy. I 11, P.Lond.Lit. 94 descr., TM 61479, LDAB 2626, MP3 1646)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a new comedy, perhaps by Menander. A dialogue between a young man and his slave is preserved; the young man intends to break off his engagement with the daughter of an important man, as he is in love with someone else. Once the master has left, the slave ponders on what to do.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105128 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 740 : New Comedy (P.Oxy. I 11, P.Lond.Lit. 94 descr., TM 61479, LDAB 2626, MP3 1646) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0950]/040-002105128
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus sheet, with holes and some surface damage in the preserved portion; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. The front bears remains of two columns, each of 25 lines, for a height of 115 mm. The first column lacks the beginnings of the lines, the second the ends. Upper and lower margins measure 30 mm. Side margins are lost. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469305.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 1st century-2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 177 x 183 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 230 mm.
Script: Good-sized formal round hand, with right- and left- pointing serifs at the end of uprights. Overall bilinear, with exception of few letters projecting above and below the writing lines, such as phi and upsilon at times. With occasional accents, breathings and marks of elision; one high stop to mark pause occurs. Colon marks division of the dialogue.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900. Of these, papyri 739-814 form part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt on the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 94 descr.
P.Oxy. I 11 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 438.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1898), pp. 22-25, no. 11.
U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, ‘B. Grenfell and A. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London, 1898’, Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 1898, pp. 673-704 (pp. 694-695).
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), p. 113.
J. Demianczuk, Supplementum Comicum. Comoediae Graeca fragmenta (Krakow 1912), pp. 111-113.
O. Schroeder, Novae comoediae fragmenta in papyris reperta, exceptis Menandreis (Bonn: Marcus und Weber 1915), pp. 38-42.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 66, no. 94.
D. L. Page, Greek Literary Papyri, Volume I (London: Heinemann 1942), pp. 280-287, no. 62.
C. Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) (Berlin: De Gruyter 1973), pp. 274-276, no. 254.
C. M. Mazzucchi, ‘Sul sistema di accentazione dei testi greci in età romana e bizantina’, Aegyptus 59 (1979), pp. 145-167 (pp. 152, 154).
R. Kassel, C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci (PCG) VIII. Adespota (Berlin: De Gruyter 1995), 1007.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)