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Papyrus 1984
- Record Id:
- 040-002105399
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000114
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467007.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1984
- Title:
- Mime (P.Lond.Lit. 97, TM 63519, LDAB 4728, MP3 2434)
- Scope & Content:
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Prose mime on a quarrel, with letters in the margin indicating the characters. The back bears the name of the copyist (Heraclides) and of the library where the manuscript used for copying was held (Praxias’ library).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105399 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1984 : Mime (P.Lond.Lit. 97, TM 63519, LDAB 4728, MP3 2434) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1217]/040-002105399
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Two fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, darker in places and with insect-holes; written on both sides. On the front, the larger fragment contains a column of 28 lines imperfect at the end. The writing runs along the fibres; upper and lower margins survive. The smaller fragment contains few letters from 11 lines. The column height is 190 mm. On the back, there are two lines written across the fibres, upside down in relation to the text on the front in red ink. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467007.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 233 x 93 mm; smaller fragment: 86 x 50 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 300 x 215 mm.
Script: Recto: Upright informal hand of medium-sized, exhibiting few ligatures. Verso: Cursive hand, sloping to the right; red ink.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1873-2016 from Ali Abd el Hari on 15 May 1911.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 97
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 475.
A. Körte, ‘Bruchstück eines Mimus’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), pp. 1-8, with pl. 1.
O. Crusius, Herondae Mimiambi Novis Fragmentis Adjectis. Accedunt Phoenicis Coronistae, Mattii Mimiamborum Fragmenta, Mimorum Fragmenta Et Specimina Varia (Leipzig: Teubner 1914), pp. 117-121.
L. de Stefani, ‘Zu den neuen Bruchstûck eines Mimus’, Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift 34 (1914) col. 253.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 47, no. 885.
A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 7 (1924), pp. 114-160 (p. 153).
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 67, no. 97.
S. Srebrny, Eos 30 (1927), pp. 401-412.
G. v. Manteuffel, De opusculis Graecis Aegypti e papyris, ostracis lapidibusque collectis (Warszawa: Nakladem towarzystwa naukowego warszawskiego, z zasilku funduszu kultury narodowej 1930), p. 146.
G. v. Manteuffel, ‘Zwei Bemerkungen zu den Griechischen Mimen aus Ägypten’, Hermes 65 (1930), pp. 123-128 (pp. 126-128).
D. L. Page, Greek Literary Papyri, Volume I (London: Heinemann 1942), pp. 362-367, no. 78.
I. C. Cunningham, Herodas Mimiambi. Cum appendice fragmentorum mimorum papyraceorum (Leipzig: Teubner 1987), pp. 54-55, no. 10.
E. J. Jory, ‘The Literary Evidence for the Beginnings of Imperial Pantomime’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 10 (1963), pp. 147-161 (p. 67, no. 6).
E. G. Turner, ‘Dramatic Representations in Graeco-Roman Egypt: how long do they continue?’, L'Antiquité Classique 32 (1963), pp. 120-128 (p. 127).
H. Wiemken, Der griechische Mimus; Dokumente zur Geschichte des antiken Volkstheaters (Bremen: Schünemann Universitätsverlag 1972), pp. 111-126.
R. W. Daniel, ‘The Mime P. Lit. Lond. 97: An Unnoticed Correction’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 103 (1994), p. 303.
S. Fortuna, ‘Due osservazioni al testo di P.Lit.Lond. 97 (= Cunningham, p. 54 s.)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147 (2004), p. 154.
T. Gammacurta, Papyrologica scaenica: i copioni teatrali nella tradizione papiracea (Hellenica 20) (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso 2006), pp. 83-94, no. 9.
M. Caroli, Il titolo iniziale nel rotolo librario greco-egizio: con un catalogo delle testimonianze iconografiche greche e di area vesuviana (Bari: Levante 2007), pp. 25-26, no. 60.
G. W. Houston, Inside Roman libraries: book collections and their management in antiquity (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 2014), p. 8.
J.-L. Fournet, ‘Archives and Libraries in Greco-Roman Egypt’, in A. Bausi, C. Brockmann, M. Friedrich, S. Kienitz (eds.), Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping (Berlin: De Gruyter 2018), pp.171-200 (pp. 189-190).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)