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Papyrus 2056
- Record Id:
- 040-002105425
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00012d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467082.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2056
- Title:
- Bacchylides, Dithyramb XVII, with title tag (P.Oxy VIII 1091, P.Lond.Lit. 47, TM 59341, LDAB 440, MP3 177)
- Scope & Content:
-
Portion of a roll containing Bacchylides’s Dithyramb XVII 47−78 (largest fragment) and XVII 91−92 (detached fragment); with parchment title-tag (sillybos) still in its original position reading ‘Dithyrambs of Bacchylides’, written over another original title, still visible, which referred to the first dithyramb only (‘The Sons of Antenor, or The Demand for Helen's Return’).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105425 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2056 : Bacchylides, Dithyramb XVII, with title tag (P.Oxy VIII 1091, P.Lond.Lit. 47, TM 59341, LDAB 440, MP3 177) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1283]/040-002105425
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a papyrus roll, with detached fragment, light-coloured, overall well-preserved; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears portions of one column and the upper margin; the detached fragment contains traces of two lines from the foot of a column, and the lower margin. At a later stage, a parchment tag was attached onto the verso, at the top of the roll, with two lines on the outer side. The tag is a palimpsest, as remnants of three earlier lines are visible. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467082.0x000001 (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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus, parchment.
Dimensions: Largest fragment: 194 x 93 mm; title tag: 100 x 20 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 310 x 135 mm.
Script: Round, upright hand with cursive traits; punctuation, accents and other marks added later; different, sloping hand for the tag.
- 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. 47
P.Oxy VIII 1091 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1911-1915 (London: British Museum 1925), p. 478.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1911), pp. 123-127, no. 1091.
J. M. Edmonds, ‘Mr. Lobel and Lyra Graeca: A Rejoinder’, The Classical Review 36 (1922), pp. 159-161 (p. 160).
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 109.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 36, no. 47.
B. Snell, Bacchylidis carmina cum fragmentis (Leipzig: Teubner 1961), pp. 61-63.
A. Arena, ‘Bacchilide, Ditirambo XVII’, Rivista di studi classici 11 (1963), pp. 65-69.
H. Maehler, Bacchylides: carmina cum fragmentis (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner 1970), pp. 57-64, F17 (Pap. O).
C. Segal, ‘The Myth of Bacchylides 17. Heroic Quest and Heroic Identity’, Eranos 77 (1979), pp. 23-37.
T. Dorandi, ‘Sillyboi’, Scrittura e civiltà 8 (1984), pp. 185-199, with pl. IV.
H. Maehler, ‘Theseus' Kretafahrt und Bakchylides 17’, Museum Helveticum 48 (1991), pp. 114-126, reprinted in C. La'da, C. Römer (eds.), Schrift, Text und Bild. Kleine Schriften von Herwig Maehler (München: K.G. Saur 2006), pp. 16-28.
J. Irigoin, Bacchylide, Dithyrambes, Epinicies, Fragments (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1993), pp. xxxiv-xxxv, pap. O.
B. Zimmermann, ‘Bacchyl. XVII 124s 124s. Sn.-M.’, Museum Criticum 25-28 (1990-1993), pp. 39-41.
S. Schröder, ‘Das Lied des Bakchylides von der Fahrt des Theseus nach Kreta (C. 17 M.) und das Problem seiner Gattung’, Rheinisches Museum 143 (2000), pp. 128-160.
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. 199-202, P15, pl. 20b.
K. McNamee, ‘Finding Libraries’, in J. Frösén, T. Purola, E. Salmenkivi (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology, Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004 (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica 2007), pp. 693-707 (pp. 696-698, 704-705).
M. Skempis, ‘Ironic Genre Demarcation: Bacchylides 17 and the Epic Tradition’, Trends in Classics 3 (2011), pp. 254-300.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)