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Papyrus 1190
- Record Id:
- 040-002105281
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147469834.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1190
- Title:
- Homer, Iliad VI (P.Oxy. III 445, P.Lond.Lit. 14, TM 60674, LDAB 1799)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments of a papyrus roll containing portions of the sixth book of Homer’s Iliad, with marginal annotations and end-title.
Left-hand fragment:
Column 1: Portions of Iliad VI.128-9, 134-7, 148;
Column 2: Iliad VI.173-199.
Right-hand fragment:
Column 1: Iliad VI.445-88;
Column 2: Iliad VI.489-529.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105281 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1190 : Homer, Iliad VI (P.Oxy. III 445, P.Lond.Lit. 14, TM 60674, LDAB 1799) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1183]/040-002105281
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with writing on one side. The back is blank. The front bears portions of four columns written along the fibres; each column had 44 lines. Upper and lower margins survive. The modern annotation 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_100147469834.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Left fragment: 153 x 60 mm; right fragment: 305 x 195 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 360 mm.
Script: Neat and upright uncial hand of medium size, with some serifs; critical marks by the first hand include diple, antisigma and asterisk; with annotations apparently in two hands, both smaller, one more cursive.
- 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.Lit. 14
P.Oxy. III 445 - 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.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part II (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903), pp. 84-91, no. 445, with pl. IV.
Friedrich Blass, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluss der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), 257-99 (p. 258).
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), no. 543.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), p. 23, no. 14.
Armida L. Nardi, 'Commenti a Omero Iliade', Studi Classici e Orientali 26 (1977), 133-55.
Hartmut Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Papyrus. Vols. I-IV, (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1969-1988), vol. ii: Scholia ad libros "E-I" (1971), Papyrus IV, with plate.
Helmut van Thiel, ‘Zenodot, Aristarch und andere’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 90 (1992), 1-32.
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Münich-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), p. 89, no. 21.
Kathleen McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists, 2007), pp. 272-73, no. 778, with plates.
Francesca Schironi, To mega biblion: book-ends, end-titles, and coronides in papyri with hexametric poetry (Durham, N.C.: American Society of Papyrologists 2010), pp. 146-47, no. 31, with plate.
Francesca Schironi, ‘Book-Ends and Book-Layout in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry’, in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, July 29-August 4 2007, ed. by Traianos Gagos, Adam Hyatt, (Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library, 2010), 695–704 (p. 703).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)