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Papyrus 2069

Record Id:

040-002105439

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00013e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2069

Title:

Sophocles, Eurypylus (P.Oxy. IX 1175, P.Oxy. XVII 2081(b), P.Lond.Lit. 66, TM 62742, LDAB 3930, MP³1472)

Scope & Content:

Fragments with Sophocles’s Eurypylus concerning the deeds and death of Eurypylus, son of Telephus, by the hand of Neoptolemus, preserving Astyoche’s lament, the choral ode and the burial of the corpse, and fragmentary dialogues.

Sister roll of Papyrus 2068, in the same hand. Presumably a scholar’s copy, carefully studied.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105439

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2069 : Sophocles, Eurypylus (P.Oxy. IX 1175, P.Oxy. XVII 2081(b), P.Lond.Lit. 66, TM 62742, LDAB 3930, MP3 1472)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1287]/040-002105439

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

119 fragments of varying size housed in four glass frames named Papyrus 2069(1), Papyrus 2069(2), Papyrus 2069(3), Papyrus 2069(4); originally 107 fragments, with later discovery of 18 additional fragments, some of which join the earlier fragments. From a luxury papyrus roll, made up of sheets 230-260 mm wide; sister roll of Papyrus 2068; written on one side along the fibres; the back bears modern annotations. The fragments, damaged by insect holes, preserve portions from various columns; the column height is 115 mm and its width 136 mm; margins and intercolumn are broad, with the lower margin measuring 35 mm; two levels of indentation are used (at 11 and 17 mm).

Papyrus 2069(1): Fragments 1-6, and new fragments 1 and 2; new fragment 1 has been added to fragment 1, and new fragment 2 to fragment 2;

Papyrus 2069(2): Fragments 6-53 (original fragment 46 belongs to Papyrus 2068(2));

Papyrus 2069(3): Fragments 54-93, new fragment 3 joining fragments 80-81, new fragment 4 joining fragment 84;

Papyrus 2069(4): Fragments 94-107; new fragments 5-18.

Digitised Content:

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; fragment 5: 142 x 325 mm; housed in four glass frames named Papyrus 2069(1), Papyrus 2069(2), Papyrus 2069(3), Papyrus 2069(4), with Papyrus 2069(1) measuring 230 x 455 mm and the other frames 230 x 380 mm.

Script: Severe Style; Scribe #B1 (Johnson 2004); same hand as P.Oxy. IX 1174 = Papyrus 2068; diaeresis, paragraphus, forked paragraphus and sigla; with scholia and corrections made by the same second hand as in Papyrus 2068, presumably responsible for the addition of accents, breathings, coronis.

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. 66
P.Oxy. IX 1175
P.Oxy. XVII 2081(b)

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 IX (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1912), pp. 86-123, no. 1175, with pll. iii-9v.

A. S. Hunt, Tragicorum graecorum fragmenta papyracea nuper reperta (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1912), no. 2.

A. C. Pearson, ‘Notes on Sophocles, Ichneutae, and Eurypylus’, The Classical Review 26 (1912), pp. 209-212 (pp. 211-212).

E. Diehl, Supplementum Sophocleum (Bonn: Marcus 1913), pp. 21-28.

A. Calderini, ‘Intorno all’Euripilo di Sofocle’, Rendiconti dell’Istituto Lombardo 46 (1913), pp. 621–645, 707–724.

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 5 (1913), pp. 563-564.

K. F. W. Schmidt, in Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 1914, p. 608.

A. C. Pearson, The fragments of Sophocles (with Additional Notes from the papers of Sir R. Jebb and Dr. W.G. Headlam) I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1917), pp. 145-165, nos. 206-222.

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), no. 1080.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1927), p. 79, no. 2081(b).

G. Brizi, ‘L'Euripilo di Sofocle’, Aegyptus 3 (1927), pp. 3-39.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 49, no. 66.

K. Reinhardt, Sophokles (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 1933), p. 235.

E. S. Siegmann, Untersuchungen zu Sophokles’ Ichneutai. Dazu einige neue Lesungen im Eurypylos-Papyrus (Hamburg: 1941), pp. 84-85.

D. L. Page, Greek Literary Papyri, Volume I (London: Heinemann 1942), pp. 16-21, no. 4.

L. Di Gregorio, Le scene d'annuncio nella tragedia greca (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1967), pp. 92-93.

R. Carden, The papyrus fragments of Sophocles (Berlin: De Gruyter 1974), pp. 1-51.

F. C. Görschen, ‘Sophokles’ Eurypylos: Inhalt, Aufbau und Aufführungszeit’, Rendiconti dell’Accademia di Archeologia Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli 50 (1975), pp. 55–115.

C. Nicolosi, ‘L'Euripilo di Sofocle e il fr. 91 in Pap. Oxyrh. IX’, Sileno 2 (1976), pp. 99-105.

S. Radt (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF) 4: Sophocles (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1977), 206-222.

D. F. Sutton, ‘Some Satyric Fragments from Oxyrhynchus’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 15 (1978), pp. 275-278 (p. 276).

E. G. Turner, P. J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), p. 66.

G. Xanthakis - Karamanos, ‘The Comic Fragment in PSI 1175: Commentary and Literary Motifs’, in A. Bülow-Jacobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists, Copenhagen 23—29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 336-343.

J. Diggle, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998), pp. 37-39, 45.

W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 29, 53, 64, 89.

H. Lloyd-Jones, ‘Helikaon (Sophocles, fr. 10e, 8; fr. 210, 47-53)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 92 (1992), pp. 55-58, reprinted in The Further Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005), pp. 106-109.

L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 84, no. 17).

L. Ozbek, ‘L'"Euripilo" di Sofocle: I modelli intertestuali del fr. 210 R (P. Oxy. 1175, fr. 5) e un'ipotesi di datazione dell'opera’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 158 (2006), pp. 29-42.

K. McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists 2007), pp. 365-366.

L. Savignago, Eisthesis. Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso 2008), pp. 91-95 no. 17.

P. O'Sullivan, C. Collard, Euripides' Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama (Oxford: Aris & Phillips 2013), pp. 344-377.

G. Iovine, ‘A survey of wormholes in Soph. frr. 206–213 R.² (P.Oxy. IX 1175 + XVII 2081[b], frr. 1–8 Hunt)’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 62 (2016), pp. 317-336.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Sophocles, tragedian, 497 BC-405 BC

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the ‘Archive of the Ichneutai Library’ (TM Arch ID 427).

Related Archive Descriptions:

Papyrus 2068