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Papyrus 1821
- Record Id:
- 040-002105359
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000eb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470546.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1821
- Title:
- Pseudo-Epicharmus, Maxims (P.Hib. I 1, P.Lond.Lit. 56, TM 62668, LDAB 3856, MP3 363)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment of a roll from mummy cartonnage, containing the prologue to a gnomic anthology in verses of Pseudo-Epicharmus (Axiopistus?), collecting maxims to be used on various occasions and possibly arranged by subject.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105359 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1821 : Pseudo-Epicharmus, Maxims (P.Hib. I 1, P.Lond.Lit. 56, TM 62668, LDAB 3856, MP3 363) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1205]/040-002105359
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragment of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom and left; with writing on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are 26 lines written along the fibres; upper and right margins survive. The annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470546.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 169 x 140 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 195 mm.
Script: Finely formed, upright book hand, with serifs, exhibiting contrast between large and narrow letters; corrections by a second hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1821-1841 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in January 1909. Extracted from mummy cartonnage (Mummy A) obtained by Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) and Arthur Surridge Hunt (b. 1871, d. 1934) at Hibeh in 1902.
- Former External References:
- P.Hib. I 1
P.Lond.Lit. 56 - 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. 314.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 13-5, no. 1, with pl. I.
Wilhelm Crönert, ‘Die Sprüche des Epicharm’, Hermes 47 (1912), 402-13 (p. 402).
Jan Demianczuk, Supplementum comicum: Comoediae Graecae fragmenta post editiones Kockianam et Kaibelianam reperta vel indicata (Kraków: Nakładem Akądemii umijeętności, 1912), pp. 123-4.
Alfred Körte, ‘Epicharms γνῶμαι’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 5 (1913), 552-3.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 19, no. 296.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 44, no. 56.
Johannes U. Powell, Collectanea Alexandrina Reliquiae Minores Poetarum Graecorum Aetatis Ptolemaicae 323-146 A.C. epicorum, elegiacorum, lyricorum, ethicorum (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925), Pseudepicharmea 1, pp. 219-21.
Denys Lionel Page, Select Papyri, III. Literary Papyri. Poetry (London: W. Heinemann, 1941), pp. 438-9.
John Barns, ‘A New Gnomologium: with some Remarks on Gnomic Anthologies (II)’, The Classical Quarterly. New Series, Vol. 1 (1951), 1-19 (pp. 17-8).
Colin H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), p. 2, pl. 2b.
Andreas Thierfelder, ‘Zu einem Bruchstück des Epicharmos (254 K.)’, in Festschrift Bruno Snell zum 60. Geburtstag am 18. Juni 1956 (München: Beck, 1956), pp. 173-80.
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), p. 78, no. 86.
Eric G. Turner, ‘Ptolemaic Bookhands and Lille Stesichorus’, Scrittura e civiltà 4 (1980), 19-40 (p. 27, n. 11).
Lucía Rodríguez-Noriega Guillén, Epicarmo de Siracusa. Testimonios y fragmentos (Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1996), p. 199, no. 356.
Rainer Kerkhof, Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie (München: K.G. Saur, 2001), pp. 79-80.
Paolo Carrara, ‘La gnomologia ellenistica. Le ‘Gnomai’ di Carete e dello Pseudo Epicarmo’, in Aspetti di letteratura gnomica nel mondo antico I, ed. by Maria S. Funghi, (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2003), pp. 177-86.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 35, 48).
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 36, plate 13.
Guglielmo Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, ed. by Roger S. Bagnall, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 101-48 (p. 105).
Francisca Pordomingo, Antologias de época hellenistica en papiro (Pap. Flor. 43) (Firenze: Gonnelli, 2013), pp. 119-20, no. 11.
Paolo Carrara, Luca Ruggeri, in Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 2, Frammenti adespoti; Gnomologi e sentenze. 2, Sentenze di autori noti e «chreiai» (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2015), pp. 69-75, Epich. 1.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘A Tale of Mummies, Drinking Parties, and Cultic Practices: Submerged Texts and the Papyrological Evidence’, in Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture. Case Studies, ed. by Giulio Colesanti, Laura Lulli, (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter 2016), pp. 269-87 (pp. 272-3).
Federico Favi, Epicarmo e pseudo-Epicarmo (frr. 240–297): Introduzione, traduzione e commento (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), p. 96 and passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)