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Papyrus 1823
- Record Id:
- 040-002105361
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000ed
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470550.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1823
- Title:
- Fragments of a Comedy (Menander's Hydria?) (P.Hib. I 5ro., TM 61587) and Fragments of a Glossary (P.Hib. I 5 vo., TM 61252)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments of a roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, further portions of which are now in the Institut für Papyrologie in Heidelberg, inventoried as P. G 406), and at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, inventoried as Gr. 16a.
Recto (TM 61587, LDAB 2736): Fragments of a comedy, preserving a dialogue between the slave Strobilus, who is anxious to get away at utmost speed, and his master, astonished at his behaviour; possibly Menander’s Hydria.
Verso (TM 61252, LDAB 2392): Alphabetical glossary of words starting with omicron (οζ- and οθ-), partly explaining Homeric words; possibly intended for school use (Esposito, Trends in Classics (2009)).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105361 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1823 : Fragments of a Comedy (Menander's Hydria?) (P.Hib. I 5ro., TM 61587) and Fragments of a Glossary (P.Hib. I 5 vo., TM 61252) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1207]/040-002105361
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Six fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll recovered from mummy cartonnage, with insect holes and plaster residue in places. Further fragments of the same roll are now held in the Institut für Papyrologie in Heidelberg, inventoried as P. G 406), and at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, inventoried as Gr. 16a. The largest fragment is written on both sides, and bears portions of 3 columns on the front, and remains of 2 columns on the back; the other smaller fragments are written on the front only; fragments B and C preserve portions of 2 columns, while fragments D-F contain parts of a few lines. Fragment E has a dark strain on the back. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470550.0x000001 (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:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; A: 104 x 245 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 250 x 300 mm.
Script: Recto: Good-sized, upright cursive hand; paragraphus or blank space mark change of speakers. Verso: different hand of medium size, upright and overall bilinear, with some narrow letterforms.
- 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 5
- 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.
Recto
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri, 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 24-29, no. 5 ro., with pl. III.
Friedrich Leo, ‘Philemon und die Aulularia’, Hermes, 41 (1906), 629-32.
Jan Demianczuk, Supplementum comicum: Comoediae Graecae fragmenta post editiones Kockianam et Kaibelianam reperta vel indicata (Kraków: Nakładem Akądemii umijeętności, 1912), pp. 98-99, adesp. no. 24.
Otto Schroeder, Novae comoediae fragmenta in papyris reperta exceptis Menandreis (Bonn: Marcus&Weber, 1915), pp. 11-29.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), p. 46, no. 858.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 64, no. 91.
Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 14 (1941), 121-24 (p. 121).
Max Treu, ‘Ein Komödienmotiv in zwei Papyri’, Philologus, 102 (1958), 215-39 (pp. 228-39).
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 244.
Antonio Aloni, ‘Hydria - "Strobilos-Komödie"- Aulularia’, Acme, 27 (1974) 57-64.
Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Zum Komikerfragment 244, 183ff. Austin’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 22 (1976) 33-34.
David Bain, A Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama (New York – London: Oxford University Press, 1977), pp. 223-26.
Konrad Gaiser, Menanders 'Hydria'. Eine hellenistische Komödie und ihr Weg ins Mittelalter (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1977), pp. 17-22.
Konrad Gaiser, ‘Bemerkungen zur 'Hydria' Menanders’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 47 (1982), 11-34.
Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Marginalia Comica’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 52 (1983), 45-47 (p. 46).
Michael Gronewald, ‘Zu einigen Komödienversen in CGFP’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 82 (1990), 47-48 (p. 47).
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci. 1-8 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), Vol. 8: Adespota (1995), no. 1093A.
Verso
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri, 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), p. 26, no. 5vo.
M. Naoumides, 'The Fragments of Greek Lexicography in the Papyri', in Classical Studies presented to Ben Edwin Perry by his students and colleagues at the University of Illinois, 1924-60 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), pp. 181-202 (no. 2 and passim).
Konrad Gaiser, Menanders 'Hydria'. Eine hellenistische Komödie und ihr Weg ins Mittelalter (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1977), pp. 17-22.
Franco Montanari, 'Gli Homerica su papiro: per una distinzione di generi', in Ricerche di filologia classica II: Filologia e critica letteraria della Grecità (Pisa: Giardini, 1984), p. 127.
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München-Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2001), no. h103.
Elena Esposito, ‘Fragments of Greek lexicography in the papyri’, Trends in Classics, 1 (2009), 255-97 (p. 288).
Riccardo Vechhiato, 'Osservazioni sui lessici papiracei P.Heid. I 200, P.Berol. inv. 9965 e P.Freib. I 1c', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 216 (2020) 12-17.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri online, no. 484 (https://relicta.org/cpp/detail.php?CPP=0484, 13 May 2021)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)