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Papyrus 1533
- Record Id:
- 040-002105311
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000c1
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465670.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1533
- Title:
- Pindar, Partheneia (P.Oxy. IV 659, TM 62560), and Anthology of Epigrams (P.Oxy. IV 662, TM 61303)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy. IV 659, P.Lond.Lit. 44, TM 62560, LDAB 3742): Pindar’s Partheneia 1-2 (frr. 94a-b Snell-Maehler), and further unplaced fragments. Assigned to the middle or end of the 1st century BC.
Verso (P.Oxy. IV 662, P.Lond.Lit. 61, TM 61303, LDAB 2445): Portions of an anthology of epigrams, including Leonidas, Antipater of Sidon, and Amyntas (four of these epigrams correspond to Anthologia Palatina VII 163, 164, 165, and 723). Assigned to the reign of Augustus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105311 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1533 : Pindar, Partheneia (P.Oxy. IV 659, TM 62560), and Anthology of Epigrams (P.Oxy. IV 662, TM 61303) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1196]/040-002105311
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portions of a miniature roll with detached scraps; worm-eaten in places; written on both sides. The front bears parts of at least five columns running along the fibres; each column had 28-9 lines; letter height is of 3-6 mm; the lower margin measures up to 18 mm, and the intercolumn measures 17-18 mm. On the back, there remain parts of three columns written across the fibres upside down in relation to the text on the front; of the first column, only the ends of the line survive. Each column had 20 lines on average. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465670.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0075
- End Date:
- -0014
- Date Range:
- 75 BC- 14
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: The largest continuous fragment measures 490 x 125 mm, mounted in a glass case measuring 660 x 180 mm.
Script: Recto: Fair-sized, round, upright bookhand, slowly written, overall bilinear, but inconsistent in spacing and letterforms; ‘epsilon-theta style’, with the crossbars of epsilon and theta reduced to a dot; with serifs in places; iota adscript written. Occasional accents, breathings, marks of quantity, medial and high stops were added by the original scribe; elaborate coronis marks the end of triads, paragraphus denotes ends of strophes, antistrophes and epodes; stichometric letters were added every hundred lines; corrections occur. Verso: Irregular uncial hand. Accents and stops occur only occasionally; a double point is used once in a dialogue (l. 11).
- 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. 44
P.Lond.Lit. 61
P.Oxy. IV 659
P.Oxy. IV 662 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 310.
Recto
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part IV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904), pp. 50-60, no. 659, with plates 3-4.
Otto Schroeder, Pindari Carmina cum fragmentis selectis (Lipsiae, 1914), pp. 304-5.
Ernst Diehl, Supplementum lyricum: neue Bruchstücke von Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho, Corinna, Pindar, Bacchylides (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1917), pp. 72-3.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), no. 983.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), pp. 34-5, no. 44.
Luigi Lehnus, ‘Da una nuova ispezione di P. Oxy. IV 659 (Pindaro, Partheneia)’, Museum Philologum Londiniense 2 (1977), 227-31.
Lucia Rodi, ‘Il primo Partenio di Pindaro (Pap. Oxy. IV, 659 Grenfell-Hunt = fr. 94 a Snell Maehler)’, in Studi in onore di Anthos Ardizzoni, ed. by Enrico Livrea, G. Aurelio Privitera, (Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo & Bizzarri, 1978), pp. 769-88.
Bruno Snell, Herwig Maheler, Pindari carmina cum fragmentis (Leipzig: Teubner, 1980), P10.
Luigi Lehnus, ‘Pindaro: il "Dafneforico per Agasicle" (fr. 94b sn.-m.)’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 31 (1984), 61-92, with plates 5-6.
Luigi Lehnus, ‘Revisione di Pindaro, Partenio I’, Quaderni di Acme 5 (1985), 49-57.
Glenn W. Most, ‘Pindar, Fr. 94b. 19-20 Sn.-M.’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 64 (1986), 33-8.
Eric G. Turner, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world, ed. by Peter J. Parsons (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1987), pp. 50-1, no. 21.
Franco Ferrari, ‘Tre papiri pindarici. In margine ai frr. 52n (a), 94a, 94b, 169a Maehler’, Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 119 (1991), 385-407.
Ulrike Horak, Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere (Wien: A. Holzhausen, 1992), p. 231, no. 39.
Guglielmo Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli, 2005), p. 115.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 65.
Guglielmo Cavallo, Herwig Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 2008), p. 128, no. 84.
Richard Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri, vols. 1-3 (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1967-1990). Vol. 2: Tafeln. Zweiter Teil: Literarische Papyri (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1970), pl. ix.16.
Anne L. Klinck, ‘Male Poets and Maiden Voices: Gender and Genre in Pindar and Alcman’, Hermes 129 (2001) 276-9.
Enrico E. Prodi, ‘A Bibliological Note on P. Oxy. 659 (Pindar, Partheneia)’, Analecta Papyrologica 26 (2014), 99-105.
Henry Spelman, ‘Zeus and the Maidens: Pindar Fr. 94b.31-7’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 192 (2014), 31-3.
Verso
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part IV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904), pp. 64-9, no. 662, with plates 3-4.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 26.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), pp. 46-7, no. 61.
John U. Powell, ‘Amyntas (Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 662 now Preserved in the British Museum, Inv. No. 1533)’, Aegyptus 14 (1934), 468-72.
Andrew S.F. Gow, ‘Antipater of Sidon: Notes and Queries’, The Classical Review, New Series 4 (1954), 1-6.
Andrew S.F. Gow, The Greek Anthology: Sources and Ascriptions (London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1958), 15.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Peter J. Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 1983), pp. 16-18, no. 42-4.
Giuseppe Giangrande, ‘Two Epigrams on Papyrus’, Museum Philologum Londiniense 2 (1977), 147-9.
Luigi Lehnus, ‘Revisione di Pindaro, Partenio I’, Quaderni di Acme 5 (1985), 49-57.
Peter Bing, Jon Bruss (eds.), Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007), p. 150 and passim.
Enrico E. Prodi, ‘A Bibliological Note on P. Oxy. 659 (Pindar, Partheneia)’, Analecta Papyrologica 26 (2014), 99-105.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)