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Papyrus 2103

Record Id:

040-002105451

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00014b

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147467257.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2103

Title:

List of Persons and Monody on Phaeton (P.Lond.Lit. 51, TM 63520, LDAB 4729, MP³1922)

Scope & Content:

Recto: Remains of a document listing persons, unpublished.

Verso: Rhetorical exercise in verses, a draft for a character-speech (ethopoeia) or mime with a lament on the death of Phaeton; perhaps written by an aspiring poet.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105451

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2103 : List of Persons and Monody on Phaeton (P.Lond.Lit. 51, TM 63520, LDAB 4729, MP3 1922)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1245]/040-002105451

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Papyrus sheet, with insect holes and abrasion in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are remains of various lines, the ink being faded at the top. The back is stained in places; writing runs across the fibres, with 25 lines from one column, with additions above the line. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0150

End Date:

0199

Date Range:

2nd half of 2nd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 174 x 98 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 220 x 155 mm.

Script: Recto: Upright, neat and regular hand of medium size, ligatured at times. Verso: Fluent but irregular and untidy hand, mostly cursive, with corrections, erasures and insertions; with occasional dashes separating the verses.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2239 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 51

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 37-38, no. 51, with pl. ii.

W. Schubart, ‘Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum by H. J. M. Milne’, Gnomon 4 (1928), pp. 395-402 (pp. 397-398).

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 10 (1932), pp. 114-160 (pp. 46-47).

E. Heitsch, Die Griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1963), pp. 42-44 no. x.

A. Wifstrand, ‘Die griechischen Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit by Ernst Heitsch’. Gnomon 35 (1963), pp 465-468 (pp. 466-467).

J. Diggle, Euripides. Phaethon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1970), 9, 2.

R. Kannicht, B. Snell (eds.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF) 2: Fragmenta adespota (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1981), p. 321.

I. C. Cunningham, Herodae Mimiambi: cum appendice fragmentorum mimorum papyraceorum (Leipzig: Teubner 1987), pp. 51-52, Appendix no. 8.

E. Gangutia Elicegui, ‘Notas interpretativas y paralelos a P.Lond.Lit. 51 (Cantus Lugubris 10 Heitsch, Fragmenta mimorum papyracea, Appendix 8 Cunningham’, in Miscelânea em honra da Doutora Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira I = Humanitas 47 (1995), pp. 481-487.

R. Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind. Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press 2001), pp. 240-241.

R. Cribiore, ‘Genetic Criticism and the Papyri: Some Suggestions’, in N. Reggiani (ed.), Greek Medical Papyri (Berlin: De Gruyter 2019), pp.173-192 (pp. 183-184).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)