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Papyrus 2070

Record Id:

040-002105440

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00013f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2070

Title:

Satyrus, Life of Euripides (P.Oxy. IX 1176, TM 62717, LDAB 3905, MP³ 1456)

Scope & Content:

Life of Euripides by Satyrus in form of a dialogue, with end-title stating that this was book 6 of Satyrus’s Lives of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. The portion preserved covers the main events of the life of Euripides, and describes his character as well as his views on various matters, including philosophy, religion, politics, and women. The text displays a wealth of quotations from Demosthenes, Euripides, Aristophanes, Homer, Plato, and Timotheus.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105440

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2070 : Satyrus, Life of Euripides (P.Oxy. IX 1176, TM 62717, LDAB 3905, MP3 1456)

Contains:

Papyrus 2070(1) : Part 1 of the Life of Euripides by Satyrus
Papyrus 2070(2) : Part 2 of the Life of Euripides by Satyrus
papyrus 2070(3) : Part 3 of the Life of Euripides by Satyrus
Papyrus 2070(4) : Part 4 of the Life of Euripides by Satyrus

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Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1288]/040-002105440

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a medium-brown papyrus roll, housed in four glass frames, named Papyrus 2070(1), Papyrus 2070(2), Papyrus 2073(3), and Papyrus 2073(4). The writing runs along the fibres on the front, and the back is blank. Portions of 22 narrow columns are preserved, about 30 mm wide, with remains of other lines. The intercolumn is minimal. Upper and lower margins are partly preserved in some of the fragments.

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: Largest fragment: 138 x 404 mm; housed in four glass frames.

Script: Small, upright informal hand with cursive tendencies of scribe A12; stops, paragraphi and occasional accents occur; frequent doubling of strokes; with some corrections.

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.Oxy. IX 1176

Publications:

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

Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, IX (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1912), pp. 124-82, no. 1176, with plate.

Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 6 (1920), pp. 247-52.

Charles Henry Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1923), no. 1055.

Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), p. 94, no. 122.

Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen historiker (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1958), 776 F 1.

Graziano Arrighetti, ‘La biografia antica negli studi dell'ultimo cinquantennio‘, Cultura e scuola, 20 (1966), 37-44.

Anthony J. Podlecki, ‘The Peripatetics as Literary Critics‘, Phoenix, 23 (1969), 114-37.

Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), pp. 320-22, no. 294.

Theodore S. Pattie, Eric G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board, 1974), no. 14.

Stephanie West, ‘Satyrus: Peripatetic or Alexandrian?’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 15 (1974) 279-287

Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci. 1-8 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), Vol. 8: Adespota (1995), nos. 1025-1025.

Bernhard Hausmann, Demosthenis fragmenta in papyris et membranis servata (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli, 1978), no. 50.

Mary R. Lefkowitz, ‘The Euripides Vita', Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 20 (1979), 187-210.

Harvey Yunis, ‘The Debate on Undetected Crime and an Undetected Fragment from Euripides' Sisyphus‘, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 75 (1988), 39-46

Manuela García Valdés, ‘La lengua griega en la Vida de Eurípides de Sátiro‘, Emerita, 59 (1991), 359-69.

André Méhat, ‘Sur un fragment d'Euripide cité par Clément d'Alexandrie (fragment 912 N2)‘, in Hellènika Symmikta. Histoire, archéologie, épigraphie. Études d'archéologie classique 7, ed. by Paul Goukowsky, Claude Brixhe (Nancy: Nancy Presses Universitaire, 1991), pp. 115-26.

David Kovacs, Euripidea. Mnemosyne. Supplementum 132 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994), pp. 14-26.

Rudolf Führer, ‘P. Oxy. 1176 fr. 39 col. XX 7-15 (Σατύρου βίος Εὐριπίδου)‘, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 115 (1997) p. 46.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4, Tavole, (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2000), plate 162.

Stefan Schorn, ‘Platons Inspirationstheorie in Satyros' Euripidesvita (Satyrus, Vita Euripidis, POxy. IX 1176, Fr. 16 = Plat. Phaedr. 245A6-8)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 134 (2001), 15-21.

W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), p. 62.

Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. 1-5 vols. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5.2 (2004), pp. 961-62, no. 960, pp. 981-83, no. 1007(a-h).

Stefan Schorn, Satyros aus Kallatis. Sammlung der Fragmente mit Kommentar (Basel: Schwabe, 2004), pp. 86-113, 181-346.

Johanna Hanink, ‘Literary Politics and the Euripidean Vita', The Cambridge Classical Journal, 54 (2008) 115-135

Tiziano Dorandi, ‘Un altro esempio di digamma numerale’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 210 (2019), 20.

Maurizio Sonnino, ‘Euripide padre della commedia nuova? A proposito di Satiro, Vit.Eur. P.Oxy. 1167, fr. 39 col. VII e di altre testimonianze antiche’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 212 (2019), 29-46.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Euripides, playwright, 484 BC-406 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121382034
Satyrus, 2nd cent

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt