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Papyrus 1524
- Record Id:
- 040-002105305
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000bc
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470076.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1524
- Title:
- Hypothesis of Euripides’ Electra and Account (P.Oxy. III 420, P.Lond.Lit. 72, TM 59860, LDAB 966, TM 111095)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a summary (hypothesis) of Euripides’ Electra, lines 341-584, on the recognition of Orestes by Electra. The back was reused to host an account from the late third century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105305 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1524 : Hypothesis of Euripides’ Electra and Account (P.Oxy. III 420, P.Lond.Lit. 72, TM 59860, LDAB 966, TM 111095) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1194]/040-002105305
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Medium-brown papyrus fragment, written on both sides. On the front, there are 22 lines from the top of a column, written along the fibres and abraded in places. The upper margin survives. On the back, there are portions of one column written across the fibres, of which 13 lines survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470076.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 157 x 92 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 215 x 145 mm.
Script: Recto: Severe Style, medium-sized, sloping to the right; one apostrophe occurs between gamma and kappa in line 11. Verso: Rapid cursive 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 1523-1544 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 72
P.Oxy. III 420 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1907 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 309.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part III (London: Egyptian Exploration Fund, 1903), pp. 66-67, no. 420, with pl. vi.
Friedrich Blass, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluss der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 3 (1906), pp. 257-99 (p. 277).
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 328.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 51, no. 72.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Hypothesis zu Euripides’ Elektra. P. Oxy. 420 (Nr. 388 Pack2)’, Philologus 125 (1981), 181-87, with pl.
James Diggle, ‘The Papyrus Hypothesis of Euripides' Orestes (P. Oxy. 2455 Fr. 4 Col. IV 32-9 + Fr. 141)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 77 (1989), 1-11 (p. 5).
Monique Van Rossum-Steenbeek, Greek Readers' Digests? Studies on a selection of subliterary papyri (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), pp. 194-95, no. 6.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Lo 'stile severo' nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), 81-106 (p. 84).
Chiara Meccariello, Le hypotheseis narrative dei drammi euripidei: testo, contesto, fortuna (Roma: Edizioni di "Storia e letteratura", 2014), pp. 192-96.
Massimo Magnani, 'The ancient manuscript tradition of the Euripidean hypotheses’, in Proceedings of the 28th Congress of Papyrology - 2016 August 1-6 Barcelona, ed. by Alberto Nodar, Sofía Torallas Tovar, (Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019), pp. 135-43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)