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Papyrus 801
- Record Id:
- 040-002105191
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000049
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469339.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 801
- Title:
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Title Tag (P.Oxy. II 301, P.Lond.Lit. 95, TM 62774, LDAB 3962, MP3 1481)
- Scope & Content:
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Title tag (sillybos), originally pasted to the outside of the roll under its right-hand end, reading ‘Sophron’s mimes on women’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105191 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 801 : Title Tag (P.Oxy. II 301, P.Lond.Lit. 95, TM 62774, LDAB 3962, MP3 1481) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0867]/040-002105191
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Slip of papyrus, written on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. It contains three words arranged in three lines; all margins are extant, the upper, left, and bottom being minimal. The right margin measures 70 mm. The tag would have been pasted to the outside of the roll to help identify the content. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147469339.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 1st century-2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 28 x 125 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 80 x 205 mm.
Script: Good-sized round uncial hand, upright and overall bilinear.
- 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. 95
P.Oxy. II 301 - 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. 440.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), p. 303, no. 301.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 502-539 (p. 510).
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 66, no. 95.
T. Dorandi, ‘Sillyboi’, Scrittura e civiltà 8 (1984), pp. 185-199 (p. 196).
D. G. Turner, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 19872), pp. 34-35, no. 8.
G. Mastromarco, ‘Il mimo greco letterario’, Dioniso 61 (1991), pp. 169-192.
A. E. Hanson, ‘A Title Tag: PCtYBR inv. 4006’, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Testi medici su papiro: atti del Seminario di studio, Firenze, 3-4 giugno 2002 (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 2004), pp. 209-219 (p. 210).
J. H. Hordern, Sophron's mimes: text, translation, and commentary (Oxford -New York: Oxford University Press 2004), pp. 29-30.
D. Sider, The library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005), pp. 28, 31, figure 32.
M. Caroli, Il titolo iniziale nel rotolo librario greco-egizio: con un catalogo delle testimonianze iconografiche greche e di area vesuviana (Bari: Levante 2007), pp. 183-185, P10, with plate 20a.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)