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Papyrus 1180
- Record Id:
- 040-002105271
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00009c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464451.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1180
- Title:
- Aristophanes, Fragments of an Unknown Comedy (P.Oxy. II 212, P.Lond.Lit. 85, TM 59246, LDAB 343, MP3 156)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of the same papyrus roll as P.Oxy. XXXVII 2808, preserving iambic trimeters from a comedy attributed to Aristophanes. Identification of the comedy (Thesmophoriazusae II? Lemniae?) has been debated and remains uncertain.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105271 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1180 : Aristophanes, Fragments of an Unknown Comedy (P.Oxy. II 212, P.Lond.Lit. 85, TM 59246, LDAB 343, MP3 156) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1178]/040-002105271
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Three fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, three additional fragments of which are preserved in the Sackler Library, Oxford, and have been published as P.Oxy. XXXVII 2808. The writing is one side along the fibres, and the back is blank. The largest fragment (A) preserves portions of two columns, the second of which is well preserved; the other two fragments (B-C) contain portions of few lines. The column height is c. 140 mm, the width c. 120 mm; there are 20 lines to the column; the height of the roll was c. 230 mm. Upper and lower margins survive to 44 and 46 mm respectively. The intercolumn varies between 9 and 35 mm. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464451.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0099
- End Date:
- 0099
- Date Range:
- 1st century BC-1st century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 217 x 130 mm; B: 91 x 51 mm; C: 55 x 20 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 255 mm.
Script: Upright, well-formed and regular hand, bilinear, with a tendency for every letter to be inscribed in a square; paragraphus and colon mark change of speaker; punctuation is by middle or high stop, perhaps by a different hand. With addition and corrections by a different yet contemporary hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1181-1199 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. III 1180 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 85
P.Oxy. II 212 - 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. 443.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part II (London; Egypt Exploration Fund 1899), pp. 20-23, no. 212.
G. Fraccaroli, ‘Briciole dai papiri di Ossirinco I. Un nuovo frammento di Aristofane?’, Rivista di filologia e d'istruzione classica 28 (1900), pp. 87-89.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 1 (1901), pp. 502-539 (pp. 512-513).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxiii, no. 1180 descr.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 89.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 62, no. 85.
J. M. Edmonds, The Fragments of Attic Comedy after Meineke, Bergk, and Kock, l, Old Comedy (Leiden: Brill 1957), p. 948.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXXVII (London; Egypt Exploration Society 1971), no. 2808, with pl. V.
C. Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) (Berlin: De Gruyter 1973), pp. 228-229, no. 223.
W. Luppe, ‘The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. 37 by E. Lobel’, Gnomon 45 (1973), pp. 321-330 (p. 325).
R. Kassel, ‘Aus der Arbeit an den Poetae Comici Graeci’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 32 (1978), pp. 23-33 (p. 23).
H. J. Mette, ‘Euripides 1968-1975. Erster Hauptteil: die Brüchstucke’, Lustrum 17 (1973-1974), pp. 5-26 (pp. 12-13).
W. Luppe, ‘Literarische Texte: Drama’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 27 (1980), pp. 233-250 (p. 244).
G. Cavallo, ‘Conservazione e perdita dei testi greci: fattori materiali, sociali, culturali’, in A. Giardina (ed.), Tradizione dei classici trasformazioni della cultura. Società romana e impero tardoantico, IV (Bari: LaTerza 1986), pp. 83-172 = G. Cavallo, Dalla parte del libro. Storie di trasmissione dei classici (Urbino: Quattroventi 2002), pp. 49-175 (p. 114).
S. Ciriello, ‘Aristofane, fr. 592 K.-A.: Lemnie?’, Sileno 16 (1989), pp. 83-88.
G. Cavallo, ‘La scrittura greca libraria tra I secoli I a.C.-I d.C.: materiali, tipologie, momenti’, in D. Harlfinger, G. Prato et al. (eds.), Paleografia e codicologia greca: atti del II colloquio internazionale(Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983) (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso 1991), pp. 11-29 (p. 10, tav. 4).
R. Kassel, C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci (PCG) VIII. Adespota (Berlin: De Gruyter 1995), 1111.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica FlorentinaXXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), pl. 18b.
B. Snell, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF). Vol. 1, Didascaliae tragicae; Catalogi tragicorum et tragoediarum; Testimonia et fragmenta Tragicorum minorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1986), 39f15 (Agathon).
F. Ronconi, ‘P.Oxy. II 212 + P.Oxy. XXXVII 2808: Aristophanes, Fabula incerta’, Archivfür Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 51 (2005), pp. 197-204, with pll. 16-17.
W. Luppe, ‘Griechische literarische Texte: Drama’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 54 (2008), pp. 258-265 (p. 263).
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), pp. 108-109, no. 69, with pl.
G. Bastianini et al. (eds.), Commentaria et lexica graeca in papyris reperta (CLGP). Vol. 1, Fasc. 4, Aristophanes – Bacchylides (München: Saur 2012), pp. 3, 5.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)