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Papyrus 1192
- Record Id:
- 040-002105283
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000a8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464464.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1192
- Title:
- Descent to Hades (P.Fay. 2, P.Lond.Lit. 240, TM 63835, LDAB 5049, MP3 1923)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a lyric composition on a man’s descent to Hades in order to converse with a woman, whom he blames; macabre details of his journey are provided, such as dogs eating corpses; the act of fishing using a corpse’s hair is also described.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105283 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1192 : Descent to Hades (P.Fay. 2, P.Lond.Lit. 240, TM 63835, LDAB 5049, MP3 1923) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1185]/040-002105283
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a papyrus roll, with severe surface damage on the left-hand side; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 3 columns, with the first and second badly mutilated. Upper and lower margin partly survive. The annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Fay. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464464.0x000001 (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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 223 x 295 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 355 mm.
Script: Fair-sized hand, regular and bilinear, with some serifs, alternating with a smaller-sized hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Karanis (Kom Aushim), meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Part of the discoveries made by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt in the Fayum, on the site of the ancient Karanis, Kôm Ushîm (1895–6). Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1180-1199 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1903.
- Former External References:
- P.Fay. 2
P.Lond. III 1192 descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 240 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900–1905 (London: Trustees of British Museum 1907), p. 444.
Fayûm towns and their papyri (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1900), pp. 82-87, no. 2.
W. Crönert, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 2 (1903), pp. 337-381 (pp. 357-358).
O. Swoboda, ‘Über neue Bruchstücke eines gnostischen Psalmes von Christi Höllenfahrt’, Wiener Studien 27 (1905), p. 299-301.
R. Reitzenstein, Hellenistische Wundererzählungen (Leipzig: Teubner 1906), pp. 16-17.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. lxiv, no. 1192 descr.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), 795.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 204, no. 240.
D. L. Page, Select Literary Papyri I: Poetry. Texts, translations and notes (London-Cambridge, MA: Heiniman & Harvard University Press 1941), pp. 416-418.
D. S. Robertson, ‘ΦΟΒΟΣ ΕΚ ΦΟΒΟΥ’, Classical Review 57 (1943), p. 70.
S. Eitrem, ‘Varia’, Symbolae Osloenses 30 (1953), pp. 108-111 (pp. 108-109).
E.∙Heitsch, Die Griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit I (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1963), p. 176, no. LVIII.
R. A. Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (2) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1965), p. 106, no. 192.
V. Longo, Aretalogie nel mondo greco. I. Epigrafi e Papiri (Genova: Istituto di filologia classica e medioevale 1969), no. 86.
Q. Cataudella, ‘La catabasi magica del PFayum 2 III 24 e Sotade’, Rivita di cultura classica e medioevale 14 (1972), pp. 95-115.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 1066.
C. H. Roberts, Manuscripts, Society and Belief in early Christian Egypt (London- New York: Oxford University Press 1979), pp. 81-82.
M. G. Bajoni, ‘Per l'esegesi di P. Fay 2 (= Pack2 1923; London, British Library 1192)’, L'Antiquité classique 75 (2006), p. 165-169.
J. Portillas, ‘Observations on the Katabasis of P.Fayum 2 (P. Brit. Mus. 1192)’, in E. Suarez de la Torre, A. Perez Jiménez (eds.), Mito y magia en Grecia y Roma = Supplementa Μήνη. 1 (Zaragoza (España): Libros Pórtico 2013) pp. 149-160.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)