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Papyrus 817
- Record Id:
- 040-002105207
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000065
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147463481.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 817
- Title:
- Homer, Odyssey VI (P.Fay. 7, P.Lond.Lit. 31, P.Lond. III 817 descr., TM 60263, LDAB 1383, MP3 1064)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments containing incomplete lines from Homer’s Odyssey VI.
Top left fragment (a): Od. VI 201-203, with small traces of 204;
Top centre fragment (b): Od. VI 205-209;
Top right fragment (c): Od. VI 255-256;
Middle left fragment (d): Od. VI 258-263; a trace of ink is visible above the first line preserved;
Middle centre fragment (e): Od. VI 325-328;
Middle right fragment (f): Part of the title;
Bottom fragment (g): Od. VI 286-300. A variant is in l. 296 (= l. 11 of the fragment).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105207 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 817 : Homer, Odyssey VI (P.Fay. 7, P.Lond.Lit. 31, P.Lond. III 817 descr., TM 60263, LDAB 1383, MP3 1064) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0799]/040-002105207
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Seven fragments of varying size from the same papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, preserving parts of lines belonging to at least three different columns; one column might have contained between 33 and 34 lines, but no line is complete. The lower and right-hand margins survive to 2.1 cm and 4.7 cm respectively on the larger fragment; part of the upper margin is preserved on the upper left-hand side fragment, measuring 1.7 cm. F7 in red refers to the publication in P.Fay. Mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147463481.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0000
- End Date:
- 0040
- Date Range:
- Early 1st century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 120 x 175 mm; housed in one glass frame measuring 280 x 230 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, irregular uncial hand, with a tendency for serifs on some uprights; not fully bilinear. A second hand made corrections and is presumably responsible for punctuation; diaeresis occurs.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Euhemeria, meris of Themistos, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 739-834 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in October 1900.
- Former External References:
- P.Fay. 7
P.Lond. III 817 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 31 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1907), p. 440.
Fayûm Towns and their Papyri (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1900), pp. 93-95, no. 7.
W. Crönert. ‘Litterarische Texte mit Ausschlufs der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 337-381 (p. 343).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. XXVII, no. 817 descr.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 28, no. 31.
C. H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands, 350B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1956), p. 9, no. 9b.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: F. Serra 2008), p. 68.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin: W. De Gruyter 2008), p. 108, no. 68.
F. Schironi, To Mega Biblion: Book-Ends, End-Titles and Coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry. American Studies in Papyrology 48 (Durham, NC: American Society of Papyrologists 2010), pp. 220-221, no. 6.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)