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Papyrus 1826
- Record Id:
- 040-002105364
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000f0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147470558.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1826
- Title:
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Homer, Iliad III, IV, V (P.Hib. I 20, P.Lond.Lit. 10, TM 61206, LDAB 2346)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments of a papyrus roll extracted from mummy cartonnage and containing parts of Homer’s Iliad III, IV and V. Papyrus 689(B) is another fragment of the same roll, and contains Iliad IV 109-113. The text displays absence of plus-verses and omits three lines (Iliad III 389, IV 89, V 527).
A: Ends of Iliad III 347-51, 354-6; beginnings of Iliad III 383-94 (389 omitted);
B: Iliad IV 19-22;
C, D, I col. i: Iliad IV 55-61;
E, F: Iliad IV 67-72, with one plus-verse (69a);
G: Iliad IV 80-3;
H: Iliad IV 86-91, with 89 omitted;
I, col. ii, and K: Iliad IV 98-102;
L = Papyrus 689(B).
M: Iliad V 525-32 (527 omitted);
N: Iliad V 796-803.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105364 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1826 : Homer, Iliad III, IV, V (P.Hib. I 20, P.Lond.Lit. 10, TM 61206, LDAB 2346) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1210]/040-002105364
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Twelve fragments (labelled A-K, M-N) of varying size from a papyrus roll, an additional fragment of which is Papyrus 689(B). The fragments were extracted from mummy cartonnage and occasionally display plaster residue; they are written on one side along the fibres, and their back is blank. They are all broken on all sides, and most of them preserve a few letters from a few lines. Each column would have had an average of 40 lines. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147470558.0x000001 (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: Fragments of varying size; the largest (A) measures 80 x 40 mm; F: 25 x 54 mm; M: 53 x 27 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 190 x 240 mm.
Script: Carefully formed, angular bookhand; lettrs are regularly spaced, overall bilinear, although some uprights extend above and below the writing line; some letters, like omicron and sigma, are smaller and narrower.
- 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 20
P.Lond.Lit. 10 - 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, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897), p. 5, no. 3, with plate.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Hibeh Papyri. Part 1 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906), pp. 84-88, no. 20, with pl. VI.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Harold Idris Bell, Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum, 1907), p. xxvi, no. 689(b) descr.
Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 29, no. 505.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 21, no. 10.
Stephanie West, The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer (Köln-Opladen: Westdeutscher Verl., 1967), pp. 64-70 (with further bibliography).
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Münich-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), p. 90, no. 41.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 36, 46).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)