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Papyrus 2054

Record Id:

040-002105423

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00012b

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147467072.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2054

Title:

Cercidas, Meliambi (P.Oxy. VIII 1082, P.Lond.Lit. 59, TM 59437, LDAB 536, MP³ 237)

Scope & Content:

Cercidas’ Meliambi, with end-title (Papyrus 2054(2), fragment 4), and marginal annotations (including variants).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105423

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2054 : Cercidas, Meliambi (P.Oxy. VIII 1082, P.Lond.Lit. 59, TM 59437, LDAB 536, MP3 237)

Contains:

Papyrus 2054(1) : Part 1 of Cercidas' Meliambi
Papyrus 2054(2) : Part 2 of Cercidas' Meliambi
Papyrus 2054(3) : Part 3 of Cercidas' Meliambi

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Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1281]/040-002105423

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Seventy-seven fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, mounted on cardboard in three glass frames named Papyrus 2054(1), Papyrus 2054(2), and Papyrus 2054(3). The fragments are numbered from 1 to 69, and from 1* to 9*. The text runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank, with portions of 14 columns and additional small fragments. Each column has 21-23 lines on average. The black is blank.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0199

Date Range:

2nd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; height of the roll: 182 mm; largest fragment: 182 x 378 mm; housed in three glass frames named Papyrus 2054(1), Papyrus 2054(2), and Papyrus 2054(3); the first and second frames measure 230 x 585 mm, the third frame measures 230 x 385 mm.

Script: Well-formed and careful upright, rather oval hand, with some narrow letter-forms (scribe A4, Johnson 2004); cursive hand for marginal annotations, presumably responsible also for the addition of many accents, breathings, marks of length and punctuation (high and mid dots). Perhaps third hand in fragment 2, column 2, line 16 (P.Oxy. VIII, p. 20)?

Custodial History:

Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Found by Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) and Arthur Surridge Hunt (b. 1871, d. 1934) at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in 1906. 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. 59
P.Oxy. VIII 1082

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum 1925), p. 478.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1911), pp. 20-59, no. 1082, with pl. 2.

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 130.

A. D. Knox, ‘The Kerkidas Papyrus’, The Classical Review 38 (1924), pp. 101-104.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 45, no. 59.

F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Teil 3. C. Autoren über einzelne Länder. Bd. 1. Ägypten - Geten (Leiden: Brill 1958), no. 696, F31b.

E. Livrea, ‘Ad Cercidae carmen restituendum’, in Atti del XVII congresso internazionale di papirologia (Napoli, 19-26 maggio 1983) (Napoli: Centro internazionale per lo studio dei papiri ercolanei 1984), II, pp. 305-312.

E. Livrea, Studi cercidei: P.Oxy.1082 (Bonn: R. Habelt 1986).

E. Livrea, ‘Un frammento di Cleante ed i meliambi di P.Oxy. 1082’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 67 (1987), pp. 37-41.

L. Lomiento, ‘Cercida, fr. 3 Livrea: Problemi di interpretazione testuale e metrica’, Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica NS 29 (1988), pp. 95-109, pll. I-III.

L. Lomiento, ‘Cercida frr. 4 Livrea (IV[?] Knox) e 5 Livrea (3 Diehl): Due proposte di supplemento’, Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica NS 35 (1990), pp. 61-63.

L. Lomiento, Cercidas. Testimonia et fragmenta (Roma: Gruppo Editoriale internazionale 1993), p. 50, and passim.

L. Lomiento, ‘Note testuali a Cercida: (frr. 1,1-4; 6; 7; 15 sg.; 28-30; 5,8-9; 6b, 7 Livrea)’, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 43 (1993), pp. 69-77.

J. Rusten, I. C. Cunningham, A. D. Knox, Theophrastus: characters. Herodas: Mimes. Cercidas and the choliambic poets (London: Harvard University Press 1993), p. 405 and passim.

J. L. López Cruces, J. Campos Daroca, ‘Cércidas sobre la creación poética (Mel. III, 1-7 Livrea)’, Emerita 60 (1992), pp. 21-29.

J. L. López Cruces, J. Campos Daroca, ‘The Metre of Cercidas’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 102 (1994), pp. 81-94.

F. Williams, ‘Cercidas, Caelius, and Unsafe Sex: Τυνδαρέοιο γαμβρόϲ (Cerc. fr. 2.28 Livrea)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 102 (1994), pp. 76-80.

E. Livrea, ‘Parerga Cercidea I. "P. Oxy". 1082 ed il 'frammento della tartaruga'’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 108 (1995), pp. 47-54.

E. Livrea, ‘Parerga Cercidea II. P. Oxy. 1082 fragmenta minora’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 112 (1996), pp. 47-55.

L. Lomiento, ‘Ancora su Cercida: Frr. 2; 7; 10 Lom. e i Fragmenta minora’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117 (1997), pp. 57-64.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Parte I Autori Noti vol. 1*** (Florence: L. S. Olschki 1999), no. 1000, 4T F.

F. Williams, ‘Cercidas fr. 3 Liv.: Canine Language in a Cynic Poet?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 139 (2002), pp. 40-42.

J. L. López Cruces, ‘Cercidas, "P. Oxy." 1082, col. xi’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 140 (2002), pp. 30-32.

W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), p. 61.

Ph. W. Comfort, Encountering the manuscripts: an introduction to New Testament paleography & textual criticism (Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2005), p. 155.

E. Livrea, ‘La vecchiaia su papiro: Saffo, Simonide, Callimaco, Cercida’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), I papiri di Saffo e di Alceo. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 8-9 giugno 2006. Studi e Testi di Papirologia NS 9 (Firenze: Istituto papirologico "G. Vitelli" 2007), pp. 67-81.

K. McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists 2007), pp. 234-237, no. 237.

G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 75.

M. Arsetti, ‘Cerc. fr. 5, 11 Livrea (= 5, 10 Lomiento)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 185 (2013), pp. 100-104.

G. W. Houston, Inside Roman libraries: book collections and their management in antiquity (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 2014), p. 165.

D. Guasti, ‘The Stylistic Function of Neologisms in Cercidas’, Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 163 (2019), pp. 95-109.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Cercidas

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt