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Papyrus 1822

Record Id:

040-002105360

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000ec

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147466524.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1822

Title:

Tragedy (P.Hib. I 4, P.Lond.Lit. 80, TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP³ 1708)

Scope & Content:

Fragments from the same roll as Papyrus 688, containing trimeters from a tragedy: post-classical? or Euripides’ Oeneus?

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105360

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1822 : Tragedy (P.Hib. I 4, P.Lond.Lit. 80, TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP3 1708)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1206]/040-002105360

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Six fragments of varying size from the same roll as Papyrus 688, reused for mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Fragment A: Portions of 2 columns, of 9 and 7 lines respectively, broken off at the bottom;

Fragment B: Portions of 5 lines;

Fragment C: Portions of 10 lines;

Fragment D: Portions of 11 lines;

Fragment E: Portions of 6 lines;

Fragment F: Portions of 4 lines.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0299

End Date:

-0200

Date Range:

3rd century BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; A: 110 x 148; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 190 mm.

Script: Delicate hand, with small, skilful capitals, written slowly with a fine pen; archaic letter-forms. Paragraphus marks change of speaker.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: 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 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 4
P.Lond.Lit. 80

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 314.

B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 1-4, no. 1.

O. Rossbach, in Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 19 (1899), pp. 1630-1631.

B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1906), pp. 21-24, no. 4, with pl. 1.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxv, no. 688 descr.

H. V. Arnim, Supplementum Euripideum (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber’s Verlag 1913), pp. 38-40.

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 5 (1913), pp. 532-572 (p. 570).

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 344.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 59, no. 80.

D. L. Page, Greek Literary Papyri I (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1942), pp. 158-159, no. 28.

T. B. L. Webster, ‘Fourth Century Tragedy and the Poetics’, Hermes 82 (1954), pp. 294-308 (p. 302).

Der kleine Pauly 1 Band 1: Aachen – Dichalkon (München: Druckenmüller, 1964), p. 1121.

Ch. Collard, ‘On the Tragedian Chaeremon’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 90 (1970), pp. 22-34 (pp.23-24).

G. Xanthakis-Karamanos, Studies in Fourth-Century Tragedy (Athens: the Academy of Athens 1980), p. l72.

R. Kannicht, B. Snell (eds.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF) Vol. II: Fragmenta Adespota (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1981), 625.

P. Carrara, ‘TrGF ll F 625: Frammenti dell'Eneo di Euripide’, Prometheus 12 (1986), pp. 25-32.

E. G. Turner, P. J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 92-93, no. 52.

G. Xanthakis-Karamanos, ‘Additional remarks on the possible attribution of some papyrus-fragments to post-classical tragedies’, in B. G. Mandēlaras (ed.), Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology: Athens, 25-31 May 1986 (Athens: Greek Papyrological Society 1988), pp. 403-417 (p. 408, n. 19-20; pp. 406-412).

Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Tragica I’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 73 (1988), pp. 207-247 (pp. 237-247).

Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Nachtrag zu Tragica I und II’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 82 (1990), pp. 35-37 (p. 37).

E. Crisci, ‘I più antichi libri greci: note bibliologiche e paleografiche su rotoli papiracei del IV-III secolo a.C.’, Scrittura e Civiltà 23 (1999), pp. 29-62 (pp. 49-50, with pl. 9a).

F. Jouan, H. van Looy, Euripides. Fragments II (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2000), p. 472.

E. Crisci, ‘Per uno studio paleografico e bibliologico dei più antichi libri greci (IV-III secolo a.C.)’, in I. Andorlini, G. Bastianini, M. Manfredi, G. Menci (eds.), Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 2001), pp. 287-300 (p. 296).

L. Del Corso, ‘Scritture ‘formali’ e scritture ‘informali’ nei cartonnages di Al-Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), pp. 33-100 (pp. 45-46).

L. Del Corso, ‘La scrittura greca di età ellenistica nei papiri greco-egizi. Considerazioni preliminari’, Analecta Papyrologica 18-20 (2006-2008), pp. 207-267 (p. 222, with pl.).

P. Carrara, Il testo di Euripide nell'antichità: ricerche sulla tradizione testuale euripidea antica, sec. IV a.C-sec. VIII d.C. (Firenze: Università degli studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità Giorgio Pasquali 2009), pp. 45-47.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Euripides, playwright, 484 BC-406 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121382034