Papyrus 1184

Recto (P.Oxy. II 220, TM 63266, LDAB 4471, MP³ 2172)

Incomplete treatise on metrics addressed to a friend, from an anonymous author (a poet?); 14 columns survive, although damaged throughout; additionally, on the right-hand side of the frame are 12 fragments, some of which bear no writing. The papyrus was cut before being re-used for the text on the verso so that only the upper parts of the columns survive. The text supplies quotations from poems, some of which are unknown, often arranged so as to slightly project into the left-hand margin (ekthesis). Among the authors quoted or mentioned are Aeschylus, Alcman, Anacreon, Callimachus, Pindar, Sappho and Simonides.

Cols. 1-2: Fragmentary;

Col. 3: On the Nicarchean metre;

Col. 4: Remains of 3 lines;

Col. 5: On a not better specified metre that the author himself wrongly thought to have invented, with an addition supplied by a corrector, to which the mark on the right hand side of the column refers;

Col. 6: Remains of 7 lines;

Col. 7: On the Anacreontean metre;

Col. 8: On the Phalaecean metre;

Col. 9: On the Praxillean metre;

Col. 10: On the Iambic dimeter;

Col. 11-12: On the Parthenean metre;

Col. 13: Remains of 21 lines;

Col. 14: On the Asclepiadean metre.

12 unplaced fragments.

Verso (P.Oxy. II 221, TM 60508, LDAB 1631, MP³ 1205, Allen-Sutton-West h94 + h11)

17 columns, 4 of which almost complete, with additional fragments, some of which of uncertain position; containing scholia on Iliad XXI, with corrections by the original scribe and by another hand; perpendicular to the main text, a line in a cursive hand mentioning Ammonius son of Ammonius was added between columns 10-11. The text displays the use of paragraphos, diaeresis, breathings and accents, and supplies quotations or mentions of various authors: among these are Alcaeus, Anacreon, Archilochus, Aristarchus, Aristonicus, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristotle, Callistratus, Didymus, Dionysus Thrax, Hermapias, Hesiod, Hippeus, Istrus, Megaclides, Panyasis, Pindar, Philetas, Phrynicus, Protagoras, Ptolemy of Ascalon, Seleucus, Sidonius, Solon, Sophocles, Stesichorus, Xenophanes, Zenodotus et al.

Col. 1: On Iliad XXI 1;

Col. 2: On Iliad XXI 63, 65-(66);

Col. 3: On Iliad XXI 111, 112, 113, 122, 123;

Col. 4: On Iliad XXI (125), 126-127;

Col. 5: On Iliad XXI 136, (140);

Col. 6: On Iliad XXI (140), 144-145, 146, 155-156;

Col. 7: On Iliad XXI 163;

Col. 8: Very fragmentary;

Col. 9: On Iliad XXI 195, 197, 203;

Col 10: On Iliad XXI 203, 204, 205, 213, 214, 217; with a line written by a cursive hand at the right-hand side of the column, perpendicular to the main text, mentioning Ammonius son of Ammonius, grammarian.

Col. 11: On Iliad XXI 218, 219-220, 221, 225-226, 229-232;

Col 12: On Iliad XXI 234, 236, 238-239, 240, 246-247;

Col 13: On Iliad XXI (246), 247, 249-250, 251, 252;

Col. 14: On Iliad XXI 282, 283, 286, 287;

Col 15: On Iliad XXI 288, 290, 291, 292, 293;

Small fragment on bottom: Presumably on Iliad XXI (318-321)?

Col. 16: On Iliad XXI (327), 331, 332, 334-335, 336, (337);

Col. 17: On Iliad XXI 351, 353, 355, 356, 361, 363;

12 unplaced fragments on the right-hand side of the frame. One is blank. The third fragment from top on the left-hand side is completed from line 5 onwards by the lower fragment on the right-hand side of the frame, with a gap of a few letters between the fragments. These two fragments are on Iliad XXI 459-460, 462-463, (462-469?) and 468-469.

The top fragment on the left-hand side is to be joined with the top one on the right-hand side, which preserves the beginning of lines 6-13; the following lines are preserved in the fragment placed under the first one on top; these three fragments are on Iliad XXI (474), 475-477.

The second fragment approximately at the mid-height of the frame is on Iliad XXI 512, 513 and perhaps (516). The remaining fragments have not been identified.