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Papyrus 1824
- Record Id:
- 040-002105362
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000ee
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1824
- Title:
- Fragments of a New Comedy (P.Hib. I 6, P.Lond.Lit. 89, TM 65728, LDAB 6982, MP3 1666)
- Scope & Content:
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Portions of a new comedy extracted from mummy cartonnage.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105362 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1824 : Fragments of a New Comedy (P.Hib. I 6, P.Lond.Lit. 89, TM 65728, LDAB 6982, MP3 1666) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1208]/040-002105362
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Nineteen fragments of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage, housed in two glass frames, named Papyrus 1824(1) and Papyrus 1824(2).
- Digitised Content:
- 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: Fragments of varying size: A: 127 x 288 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring x mm.
Script: Regular, heavy upright hand of the early type, overall bilinear and medium-sized; square epsilon and archaic form of omega. Paragraphus and double dots mark change of speakers.
- 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 A10) 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 6
P.Lond.Lit. 89 - 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. 29-35, no. 6, with pl. IV.
Jan Demianczuk, Supplementum comicum: Comoediae Graecae fragmenta post editiones Kockianam et Kaibelianam reperta vel indicata (Kraków: Nakładem Akądemii umijeętności, 1912), pp. 102-4, adesp. no. 21.
Otto Schroeder, Novae comoediae fragmenta in papyris reperta exceptis Menandreis (Bonn: Marcus&Weber, 1915), pp. 3-11.
Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), 228-9, no. 437.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), p. 14, no. 196.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 63-4, no. 89.
Denys Lionel Page, Select Papyri, III. Literary Papyri. Poetry (London: W. Heinemann, 1941), pp. 287-91, no. 63.
Colin H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), p. 2, pl. 2a.
Thomas B. L. Webster, Studies in Later Greek Comedy (2nd ed.) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970), pp. 172-3.
Bain David, ‘A Note on a Fragment of Comedy (P. Hibeh I, 6)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 8 (1971), 239-42.
Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), pp. 286-91, no. 258 (with further bibliography).
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci (PCG) 8, Adespota (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1995), no. 1014.
Edoardo Crisci, ‘I più antichi libri greci: note bibliologiche e paleografiche su rotili papiracei del IV-III secolo a.C.’, Scrittura e civiltà 23 (1999), 29-62 (pp. 43-6, with pl. v).
W. Geoffrey Arnott, Menander 3 (Loeb Classical Library) (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: W. Heineman, 2000), pp. 417-8.
Edoardo Crisci, ‘Per uno studio paleografico e bibliologico dei più antichi libri greci (IV-III secolo a.C.)’, Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998. Volume I, ed. by Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi, Giovanna Menci, (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, 2001), pp. 287-300 (pp. 293-5).
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 35, 39).
Lucio Del Corso, ‘La scrittura greca di età ellenistica nei papiri greco-egizi. Considerazioni preliminari’, Analecta Papyrologica 18-20 (2006-2008), 207-68 (p. 219).
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 25, plate 3.
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. 103).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Menander, 342-290 BC
- Places:
- Ankyropolis (El-Hiba, El-Hibeh), 20th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt