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Papyrus 1605(a-c)
- Record Id:
- 040-002105335
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000da
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108222.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1605(a-c)
- Title:
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Encomium (?) (P.Lond.Lit. 141, P.Lond. V 1816a descr., TM 64087, LDAB 5305, MP3 2541), Epic Verses (P.Lond.Lit. 37, P.Lond. V 1816b descr., TM 63516, LDAB 4725, MP3 1813), Mythographus Homericus (P.Lond.Lit. 142, P.Oxy. LVI 3830, P.Lond. V 1816c descr.,TM 61608, LDAB 2757, MP3 1185.3) and Unpublished Document (P.Lond. V 1816a descr., TM 64087)
- Scope & Content:
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Papyrus 1605a (P.Lond.Lit. 141, P.Lond. V 1816a descr., TM 64087, LDAB 5305, MP3 2541): On the recto is an unpublished document of uncertain nature (maybe a contract?). The verso contains probably an encomium (see line 30). Assigned to the third century.
Papyrus 1605b (P.Lond.Lit. 37, P.Lond. V 1816b descr., TM 63516,LDAB 4725, MP3 1813): Remains of 13 hexameters of unidentified epic poetry with mention of Hermes and Zeus. Assigned to the second century.
Papyrus 1605c (P.Lond.Lit. 142, P.Oxy. LVI 3830, P.Lond. V 1816c descr.,TM 61608, LDAB 2757, MP3 1185.3): The fragment belongs together with P.Oxy. LVI 3830 to a papyrus roll containing Homeric narratives ascribed to the so called “Mythographus Homericus”. The first line of P.Lond.Lit. 142 completes the final remark of a narrative on the Gigantomachy preserved in P.Oxy. LVI 3830, fragment 3, column 2, lines 1-19, and provides the source of the story, Euphorion. A quotation of Iliad IX 447 introduces the following narrative on Phoinix: he was induced by his mother to sleep with his father’s concubine and was subsequently cursed by his father with infertility. He fled then to Peleus. The version of the papyrus is close to the one found in the Scholia-D to the Iliad. Assigned to the second century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105335 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1605(a-c) : Encomium (?) (P.Lond.Lit. 141, P.Lond. V 1816a descr., TM 64087, LDAB 5305, MP3 2541), Epic Verses (P.Lond.Lit. 37, P.Lond. V… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0483]/040-002105335
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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Three papyrus fragments, mounted in a glass case:
Left fragment = Papyrus 1605a: Strip of papyrus written on both sides. On the upper part of the recto, along the fibres, are small portions of 8 lines of a document, followed by blank space. On the verso, across the fibres, are parts of 34 lines in a different hand. The text in lines 1-14 is damaged and mostly illegible.
Upper right fragment = Papyrus 1605b: Fragment probably of a papyrus roll with remains of 13 lines written on the verso across the fibres. Only the upper margin is preserved. There are three acute accents. The recto is blank, except for two characters, a tau or pi on the upper right edge of the papyrus and a L-shaped sign below on the left.
Lower right fragment = Papyrus 1605c: Small fragment of a papyrus roll broken on all sides and containing remains of 10 lines written on the recto along the fibres. The back is blank and no margins are preserved. Further fragments from the same roll are contained in an Oxyrhynchus papyrus published as P.Oxy. LVI 3830.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108222.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 1605a: 193 x 30 mm; Papyrus 1605b: 127 x 68 mm; Papyrus 1605c: 52 x 21 mm. Mounted in a glass case measuring 243 x 180 mm.
Script: Papyrus 1605a Recto: Small sloping cursive hand. Verso: Small upright semi-cursive hand; one accent and two elision marks. Papyrus 1605b: Semi-cursive hand; three acute accents. Papyrus 1605c: Clear upright regular hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Papyrus 1605(a-b): Egypt. Papyrus 1605(c): Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Papyrus 1605(a-b): Egypt. Papyrus 1605(c): Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. V 1816a descr.
P.Lond. V 1816b descr.
P.Lond. V 1816c descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 141
P.Lond.Lit. 142
P.Lond.Lit. 37 - 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. 311
Papyrus 1605(a)
Recto
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), p. 264, no. 1816a descr.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 120-121, no. 141.
A. Körte, 'Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen', Archiv für Papyrusforschung 10 (1932), p. 222 no. 755.
F. Pordomingo, 'Ejercicios preliminares de la composición retórica y literaria en papiro: El encomio', Escuela y literatura en Grecia antigua. Actas del Simposio Internacional Universidad de Salamanca, 17–19 de Noviembre 2004 (Cassino: Università degli Studi di Cassino 2007), pp. 405-453 (p. 435).
Verso:
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), p. 264, no. 1816 a descr.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 120-121, no. 141 descr.
A. Körte, 'Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen', Archiv für Papyrusforschung 10 (1932), p. 222, no. 755 descr.
Papyrus 1605(b):
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), p. 264, no. 1816b descr.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 31, no. 37.
A. Körte, 'Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen', Archiv für Papyrusforschung 10 (1932), p. 30, no. 712.
Papyrus 1605(c):
Greek Papyri in the British Museum V (London: British Museum 1917), p. 264, no. 1816c descr.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 121, no. 142.
R. Pfeiffer, ‘Hesiodisches und Homerisches. Zu neuen und alten Papyri’, Philologus 92 (1937), pp. 1-18 (pp. 16-18) = R. Pfeiffer, Ausgewählte Schriften: Aufsätze und Vorträge zur griechischen Dichtung und zum Humanismus (edited by W. Bühler) (München: Beck 1960), pp. 39-41.
H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera). Recensuit Hartmut Erbse. Volumen Primum (Berlin: De Gruyter 1969), p. XXXIX, Papyrus VII.
F. Montanari, ‘Revisione di PBerol. 13282. Le Historiae fabulares omeriche su papiro’, in Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (Napoli, 19-26 maggio 1983). Volume secondo (Napoli: Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi 1984), pp. 229-242 (p. 242).
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LVI (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1989), pp. 37-44, no. 3830.
M. Haslam, ‘A New Papyrus of the Mythographus Homericus’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 27 (1990), pp. 31-36.
F. Montanari, ‘The Mythographus Homericus’, in Greek Literary Theory after Aristotle. A Collection of Papers in Honour of D. M. Schenkeveld (Amsterdam: VU Univ. Press 1995), pp. 135-172 (p. 168, no. 003).
M. van Rossum-Steenbeck, Greek Readers’ Digests? Studies on a Selection of Subliterary Papyri (Leiden: Brill 1998), pp. 281-282, no. 50.
H. Lloyd-Jones, Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici (Berlin: De Gruyter 2005), p. 59 no. 454 C.
Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)