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Papyrus 2048

Record Id:

040-002105417

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000125

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2048

Title:

Plato, Phaedrus (P.Oxy. VII 1017, P.Lond.Lit. 147, TM 62618, LDAB 3803, MP³ 1401)

Scope & Content:

Papyrus roll with portions of Plato’s Phaedrus.

Papyrus 2048(1)

Column 1: Two letters only;

Column 2: Phaedrus 238c-238d;

Column 3: Phaedrus 238e-239a;

Column 4: Phaedrus 239a-239c, with marginal annotations;

Column 5: Phaedrus 239c-239e, with marginal annotations;

Column 6: Phaedrus 239e-240b;

Column 7: Phaedrus 240b-240d, with 10 lines lost and marginal annotations;

Papyrus 2048(2)

Column 1: Phaedrus 245a-245c, with marginal annotations;

Column 2: Phaedrus 245c-245d with marginal annotations;

Column 3: Phaedrus 245e-246a, with marginal annotations;

Column 4: Phaedrus 246b-246c, with marginal annotations.

Column 5: Phaedrus 246e.

Papyrus 2048(3)

Column 1: Phaedrus 247d-248a, with marginal annotations;

Column 2: Phaedrus 248a-248c;

Column 3: Traces of another column;

Column 4: Phaedrus 250b-250c;

Column 5: Phaedrus 250d;

Column 6: Phaedrus 251a.

Fragments a-z remain unplaced, with the exception of fragment b, which preserves part of Phaedrus 236e.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105417

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2048 : Plato, Phaedrus (P.Oxy. VII 1017, P.Lond.Lit. 147, TM 62618, LDAB 3803, MP3 1401)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1014]/040-002105417

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, housed in three glass frames named Papyrus 2048(1), Papyrus 2048(2), and Papyrus 2048(3). The fragments housed in the second and third frames are mounted on cardboard, their back side being blank. The back of Papyrus 2048(1) bears few traces of ink. Each sheet forming the roll was between 170 and at least 215 mm wide.

The fragments bear portions of 18 columns written parallel to the fibres on the front, with a gap of 11 columns after column 7; each column measures 245 x 65, and has an average of 33-35 lines; each line contains approximately 18 letters; the intercolumn measures c. 20 mm. The entire roll would have had 133/134 columns.

Unplaced fragments, labelled as a-z, are housed in Papyus 2048(3).

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

2nd century-3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Height of the roll: c. 280 mm; housed in three glass frames named Papyrus 2048(1), Papyrus 2048(2), and Papyrus 2048(3), measuring 320 x 585 mm, 315 x 405 mm, and 320 x 580 mm respectively.

Script: Severe Style. Diaeresis, iota adscript occur; punctuation by original hand. Accents, breathings and marks of elision by a second hand, responsible for corrections and insertion of variants in the margins; third hand responsible for the correction in 2048(3), column 5, line 5; occasional line fillers; paragraphus used to mark change of speaker, alongside double dots.

Custodial History:

Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2040-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 147
P.Oxy. VII 1017

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915 I (London: British Museum 1969), p. 476.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 127-140, no. 1017, with pl. vi.

H. Alline, ‘L'histoire et la critique du texte platonicien et les papyrus ďOxyrhynchys 1016-1017’, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, N.S. 34 (1910), pp. 251-294 (pp. 278-288).

H. Alline, Histoire du texte de Platon (Paris: Champion 1915), pp. 143-146.

W. Schubart, Einführung in die Papyruskunde (Berlin: Weidmann 1918), p. 92.

B. P. Grenfell, ‘The Value of Papyri for the Textual Criticism of Extant Greek Authors’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 39 (1919), pp. 16-36 (p. 28).

U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Platon II (Berlin: Weidmann 1920), p. 363.

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 996.

G. Coppola, ‘Appunti intorno ai papiri di Platone’, Aegyptus 5 (1924), pp. 213-230 (pp. 224-225).

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 123, no. 147.

G. J. de Vrie, A commentary on the Phaedrus of Plato (Amsterdam: Hakkert 1969), 4, pp. 89-97, 119-141, 153-154.

W. E. H. Cockle, Hypsipyle, Euripides. Text and annotation based on a re-examination of the papyri (Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1987), p. 22 n. 14.

G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo (Firenze: Case Editrice le lettre 1988), pp. 255-256.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Parte I Autori Noti vol. 1*** (Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1999), 80 Plato 50, pp. 254-273.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Vol. 4.2, Indici (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 2002), pll. 157-159.

W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 44-45, 48, 50, 54-56, 67, 75, 77 and passim, with pl. 7.

L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 84, no. 15).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Plato, 427 BC-347 BC

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the ‘Hypsipyle library’ (TM Arch ID 426).