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Papyrus 2055
- Record Id:
- 040-002105424
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00012c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467077.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2055
- Title:
- Commentary on Iliad II (P.Oxy VIII 1086, P.Lond.Lit. 176, TM 61148, LDAB 2287, MP3 1173), and Medical Text (P.Oxy VIII 1088, P.Lond.Lit. 168, TM 63118, LDAB 2409, MP3 2409)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (P.Oxy VIII 1086, P.Lond.Lit. 176, TM 61148): Commentary on Iliad II.751-827, product of the Aristarchean school; quoting Odyssey XI 164-203, Alcaeus (48 Lobel), Aristarchus, Pindar (fr. 92 Schroeder), Praxiphanes; assigned to the 1st century BC.
Verso (P.Oxy VIII 1088, P.Lond.Lit. 168, TM 63118): Collection of fifteen pharmacological recipes for wounds, sores, leprosy, flow of blood, polypus, and to induce sneezing, and potions for quartan fever, liver complaints, dropsy, insomnia, and convulsions. Assigned to the 1st century AD.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105424 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2055 : Commentary on Iliad II (P.Oxy VIII 1086, P.Lond.Lit. 176, TM 61148, LDAB 2287, MP3 1173), and Medical Text (P.Oxy VIII 1088,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1282]/040-002105424
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Portion of a papyrus roll, medium-brown, with detached scraps; fair condition, with minor surface damage in places; written on both sides. The text on the front runs along the fibres and is broken off on the sides; portions of three columns survive, with 40 lines to the column; the second column is complete and measures 155 x 205 mm; margins are very narrow. A sheet-join is visible left of centre. On the back, there are three columns, overall well preserved and almost complete, running across the fibres and written the other way up in relation to the text on the front; traces of a fourth column are visible. The first column is preceded by ample blank space; intercolumn and part of the upper and lower margins survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0099
- End Date:
- 0099
- Date Range:
- 1st century BC-1st century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 232 x 410 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 460 mm.
Script: Recto: Small, informal, semi-cursive hand, irregular in size; letters are usually detached and quickly written; with lemmata and commentary separated by blank space; with abbreviations, lectional signs and paragraphi. Same hand as P.Oxy. LXV 4451. Verso: Thin, uneven cursive hand, fairly large; paragraphus marks new recipes.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: 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. 168
P.Lond.Lit. 176
P.Oxy. VIII 1086
P.Oxy. VIII 1088 - Publications:
- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum 1925), p. 478.RectoThe Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1911), pp. 77-99, no. 1086.A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), p. 252, no. 480.H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 145-146, no. 176.R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship I (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1968), p. 219.G. Fischetti, ‘Note di Filologia Classica’, Επιστημονική Επετηρίς της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών 19 (1968-69), pp. 231-272 (pp. 246-247).H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem. Praefatio et scholia ad libros A–Δ (Berlin: De Gruyter 1969), pp. xxxv-xxxvi, papyrus no. ii, pp. 164-174, with pl. ii.A. L. Nardi, ‘Commenti a Omero “Iliade”’, Studi classici e orientali 26 (1977) 133-155.M. Del Fabbro, ‘Il commentario nella tradizione papiracea’, Studia Papyrologica 18 (1979), pp. 69–132 (no. 40).M. W. Haslam, ‘P. Wash. Univ. Inv. 217: Commentary on Iliad 9’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985), pp. 97-100 (p. 100).K. McNamee, ‘Aristarchus and ‘Everyman’s’ Homer’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 22 (1981), pp. 247-255 (pp. 248-249, and passim).E. G. Turner, P. J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 98-99, no. 58.M. W. Haslam, ‘The Homer 'Lexicon of Apollonius Sophista,' I: Composition and Constituents’, Classical Philology 89 (1994), pp. 1-45.J. Lundon, ‘La scrittura di P. Oxy. VIII 1086 e P. Oxy. LXV 4451’, Analecta Papyrologica 10-11 (1998-1999), pp. 17-32.Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1999), 86, 2T.J. Lundon, ‘POxy 1086 e Aristarco’, in I. Andorlini, G. Bastianini, M. Manfredi, G. Menci (eds.), Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998 (Firenze: Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 2001), pp. 827-839.M. L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München-Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2001), p. 131, h40.J. Lundon, Un commentario aristarcheo al secondo libro dell'Iliade: P.Oxy. VIII 1086 (Proecdosis) (Firenze: 2002).J. Lundon, ‘Homeric Commentaries on Papyrus: A Survey’, in S. Matthaios, F. Montanari, A. Rengakos (eds.), Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts (Trends in Classics, Supplementary volume 8) (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter 2011), pp. 161-181 (pp. 172-174).F. Schironi, ‘The ambiguity of signs: critical σημεῖα from Zenodotus to Origen’, in M. Niehoff (ed.), Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Leiden: Brill 2012), pp. 85-112 (p. 96).D. Colomo, ‘Quantity Marks in Greek Prose Texts on Papyrus’, in G. Nocchi Macedo, M. C. Scappaticcio (eds.), Signes dans les textes, textes sur les signes (Papyrologica Leodiensia 6) (Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège 2017), pp. 97-125 (p. 104).G. Massimilla, ‘Aristarco e il δεύτερον πρότερον’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017), pp. 67-75.VersoThe Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1911), pp. 110-115, no. 1088.F. E. Kind, JAW 180 (1919) 67A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 6 (1920), pp. 262-263.H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 44, no. 824.H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 135, no. 168.M.-H. Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine (Genève: Librairie Droz 1981), no. 134.I. Andorlini, ‘Istruzioni dietetiche e farmacologiche’, Yale Classical Studies 28 (1985), pp. 49-56.U. Horak, ‘Antike Farbenpracht. Zwei Farblisten aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 13 (1998), pp. 115-133 (p. 125).M.-H. Marganne, Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain (Liège: Cedopal 2004), p. 79.I. Andorlini, ‘Il ‘gergo’ grafico ed espressivo della ricettazione medica antica’, in A. Marcone (ed.), Medicina e società nel mondo antico. Atti del convegno di Udine, 4-5 ottobre 2005 (Firenze: Le Monnier università 2006), pp. 142-167 (p. 165).J. Lundon, ‘POxy VIII 1088: problemi e proposte’, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Testi Medici su Papiro. Atti del Seminario di Studio, Firenze, 3-4 giugno 2002 (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» 2003), pp. 119–130, with pl. v. D. Fausti, ‘Il lessico delle cure e della farmacologia in papiri medici da Ossirinco’, in N. Reggiani (ed.), Greek Medical Papyri: Text, Context, Hypertext (Berlin: De Gruyter 2019), pp. 88-106 (pp. 88, 94, and passim).
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)