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Papyrus 783
- Record Id:
- 040-002105172
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000022
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463303.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 783
- Title:
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Euripides, Phoenissae (P.Oxy. II 224, P.Lond.Lit. 76, TM 59843, LDAB 948, MP3 421)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a roll with Euripides’ Phoenissae.
Column 1: Phoenissae 1017-1043.
Column 2: Phoenissae 1064-1071.
Another fragment of the same roll, published as P.Ryl. III 547 and housed in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, contains lines 646-657.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105172 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 783 : Euripides, Phoenissae (P.Oxy. II 224, P.Lond.Lit. 76, TM 59843, LDAB 948, MP3 421) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0880]/040-002105172
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank. It preserves parts of two columns; the first column has 29 lines; of the second, few traces of 7 lines remain. Each column would have contained 29-30 lines.The column is 120 mm wide and 154 mm high; the intercolumn measures 60 mm. The surface is damaged in places. The upper and lower margins survive to 46 and 40 mm respectively; the side margins are lost. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case. Another fragment of the same roll is housed in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0150
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- mid 2nd century-mid 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 235 x 213 mm; estimated length of the roll: 1100 mm, with 61 columns; height of the roll: 239 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 280 x 280 mm.
Script: Biblical Majuscule. A second hand may be responsible for stops (high and low), accents, dots to denote corrections in lighter ink and for the cursive annotation in the left margin of the second column. Apostrophe by the original scribe.
- 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. 76
P.Oxy. II 224 - 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. 439.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 114-116, no. 224.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 502-539 (p. 510).
U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Griechische Verskunst (Berlin: Weidmann 1921), pp. 177-178.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 53, no. 76.
Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Vol. III. III, Theological and Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1938), no. 547, with pl. 9.
G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (Firenze: Le Monnier 1967), pp. 28-29, 34-35, 39-40, 50, with pl. 6.
B. E. Donovan, Euripides Papyri I: Texts from Oxyrhynchus (New Haven: American Society of Papyrologists 1969), no. 15, pl. XVI.
J. M. Bremer, ‘Papyri Containing Fragments of Eur. Phoenissae. Some Corrections to the First Editions’, Mnemosyne 36 (1985), pp. 293-305 (pp. 302-305).
W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 145, 178, 186, 208, 222, 232, 254.
Ph. W. Comfort, Encountering the manuscripts: an introduction to New Testament paleography & textual criticism (Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2005), pp. 113, 129-130, 185-186.
L. Savignago, Eisthesis: il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso 2008), pp. 257-261, no. 47.
P. Carrara, Il testo di Euripide nell'antichità: ricerche sulla tradizione testuale euripidea antica, sec. IV a.C-sec. VIII d.C. (Firenze: Università degli studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità Giorgio Pasquali 2009.), pp. 404-409, no. 100, and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)