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Papyrus 1873
- Record Id:
- 040-002105396
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000112
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100120697123.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1873
- Title:
- Homer, Iliad II (P.Lond.Lit. 6, TM 60260, LDAB 1380, MP3 643), and Other Texts (TM 113039)
- Scope & Content:
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Portions of a papyrus roll containing lines from Homer’s Iliad II, with marginal annotations and stichometry, end-title, and a prose introduction to the Iliad; other texts (further lines from the Iliad, a name, and documentary texts) are present at the end of the recto and on the verso.
Papyrus 1873(1): Iliad II 251-254, 267-284, 296-309, 331-345, with marginal annotations. On the back, there is trace of a letter. A fragment now in Giessen contains the ends of lines 267-275.
Papyrus 1873(2): Iliad II 364-395, 398-430, 435-462, with stichometric annotation (delta = 400, opposite line 419) and the Greek letter pi (= poietes, poet). A fragment in Manchester preserves further portions of lines 398-406.
On the back, a word is visible, perhaps the beginning of a verse.
Papyrus 1873(3): Iliad II 466-494, 498-526, 529-559, with an additional line inserted after line 498 and stichometric annotation opposite line 522. Two fragments in Manchester and Washington preserve further portions of lines 466-478.
Papyrus 1873(4): Iliad II 562-592, 597-625, 630-660, with omission of lines 586-587 and 657. The back bears Iliad I 1-2.
Papyrus 1873(5): Iliad II 663-691, 696-726, 730-760, with an additional line after line 683 and omission of line 687; possible stichometric annotation opposite line 724. A fragment in Manchester preserves the ends of lines 676-689, while another fragment at the Pierpont Morgan Library, preserves further portions of lines 710-723.
Traces of writing are visible on the back, perhaps a name (Epagathos).
Papyrus 1873(6): Iliad II 803-830, 838-875 (lines 818-819, 822, 825-826, 828-829 in lacuna), with omission of line 839. A fragment in Manchester preserves further portions of lines 858-875.
The back of the smaller fragments bear cursive writing (document or verses?).
Papyrus 1873(7): Conclusion of the second book of the Iliad with end-title, and prose introduction to the Iliad with coronis at the end; there follow the first two lines of Iliad 1 and further lines from Homer in a different hand, and stichometric annotations. Several unplaced scraps on the right. Two fragments in Manchester preserve further portions of the prose text.
Two lines are visible on the back, perhaps a stichometric annotation; another text is written upside down in two hands and is the contract for a lease of land (TM 113039), dated 3 October 87, drawn up in Euhemeria.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105396 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1873 : Homer, Iliad II (P.Lond.Lit. 6, TM 60260, LDAB 1380, MP3 643), and Other Texts (TM 113039) - Contains:
- Papyrus 1873(1) : Portions from Iliad II 251-345
Papyrus 1873(2) : Portions from Iliad II 364-462
Papyrus 1873(3) : Portions from Iliad II 466-559
Papyrus 1873(4) : Portions from Iliad II 562-660
Papyrus 1873(5) : Portions from Iliad II 663-760
Papyrus 1873(6) : Portions from Iliad II 803-875
Papyrus 1873(7) : End-title, prose introduction to the Iliad, further verses and lease of land
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- 032-002104451[1216]/040-002105396
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a medium-brown papyrus roll, darkened in places; housed in seven glass frames named Papyrus 1873(1), Papyrus 1873(2), Papyrus 1873(3), Papyrus 1873(4), Papyrus 1873(5), Papyrus 1873(6), and Papyrus 1873(7). Each sheet forming the roll is about 165 mm wide; the front of the roll has 22 columns written parallel to the fibres, with each column measuring 190 x 180 mm on average and having about 35 lines.Occasionally, there is writing on the back, running across the fibres. Seven fragments of the same roll are now in Manchester, John Rylands Library (Gr. 540 Ro), one fragment at the Library of Congress of Washington (inv. 4082 B), another at the Pierpont Morgan Library (inv. M662B(6b) + (27k)), and one at the Universitätsbibliothek in Giessen (inv. 213).
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100120697123.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0001
- End Date:
- 0087
- Date Range:
- 1-87
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; housed in seven glass frames.
Script: Large, informal hand, rather irregular and shaky; all letters are separated; there are occasional serifs. No accents or breathings; stop used at the end of the line; stichometric signs at each hundred lines, when preserved; cursive hand for the marginal annotations, perhaps of the same scribe. At least two different hands at the end: very large and rather clumsy, upright mixed round hand; medium-sized cursive hand. These two hands are found on the back as well, in addition to two other cursive hands.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Haj on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 6
P.Ryl. III 540 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum, 1969), p. 475.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 2-20, no. 6.
Colin H. Roberts, Catalogue of the Greek papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, III (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1938), pp. 183-88, no. 540.
Bruce E. Donovan, ‘A Homer Fragment in The Library of Congress’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 5 (1968), 37-39.
Elias Kapetanopoulos, ‘Notes on Readings’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 5 (1968), 106.
Richard Seider, Paläographie der griechischen Papyri, 1-3 vols. (Stuttgart: A. Hierseman, 1970), vol. II.2, pp. 73-74.
Alberto Bernabé, ‘Cyclica (I)’, Emerita, 50 (1982), 81-92 (pp. 87-89).
Claudio Gallazzi, ‘Un nuovo frammento di Pack² 643 (Hom., Il.B 251-875)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 63 (1986), 35-38.
Claudio Gallazzi, ‘Un altro frammento di Pack² 643 (Ilias B)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 110 (1996), 118-20.
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Münich-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), nos. 104, 357, 463(a).
Giuseppina Azzarello, ‘P.B.U.G. inv. 213: Un nuovo frammento del rotolo omerico di Londra, Manchester, Washington e New York (= Mertens-Pack 643) nella collezione di Giessen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 53 (2007), 97-143.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 71.
Giuseppina Azzarello, ‘Sprecherhinweise in homerischen Papyri’, in Graeco-Roman Fayum – Texts and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Third International Fayum Symposium, Freudenstadt, May 29 – June 1, 2007, ed. by Sandra Lippert, Maren Schentuleit (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008), pp. 27-44 (pp. 35-36).
Giuseppina Azzarello, ‘Alla ricerca della "mano" di Epagathos’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 54 (2008), 179-202.
Francesca Schironi, To mega biblion: book-ends, end-titles, and coronides in papyri with hexametric poetry (Durham, N.C.: American Society of Papyrologists 2010), pp. 110-11, no. 13.
Jean-Luc Fournet, ‘'Homère et les papyrus non littéraires: le Poète dans le contexte de ses lecteurs’, in I papiri omerici: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze 9-10 giugno 2011, ed. by Guido Bastianini, Angelo Casanova (Firenze: Istituto papirologico "G. Vitelli”, 2012), pp. 125-57 (p. 126).
Laura Lulli, ‘Un'altra strada per l'epos: l'opera di Dionisio il Ciclografo e alcune sintesi mitografiche di età ellenistica e imperiale su papiro’, Aegyptus, 93 (2013), 65-104.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri, no. 46 (https://relicta.org/cpp/detail.php?CPP=0046, 14 April 2021).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)