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Papyrus 2208
- Record Id:
- 040-002105452
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00014c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108247.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2208
- Title:
- Fragment of a Mime (P.Lond.Lit. 52, TM 64089, MP3 1747)
- Scope & Content:
-
Fragment of a mime or dramatic lyric entitled in scholarship as "Damsel in Distress" ( Page 1950) or Peirazomene (Heitsch 1961).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105452 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2208 : Fragment of a Mime (P.Lond.Lit. 52, TM 64089, MP3 1747) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0851]/040-002105452
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 fragment of a papyrus roll, writing on one side only, mounted in glass.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108247.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensionss: 87 x 70mm, mounted in a glass case measuring 140x 125 mm.
Script: Minute cursive hand. Metrical divisions indicated by an oblique stroke. No other marks in the text.
- Custodial History:
- Found in Oxyrhynchus. Purchased of Bernard P. Grenfell, May 1920.
- Former Internal References:
- P. Lond. Lit. 52
- Information About Copies:
-
Complete digital coverage available for this item: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2208.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the manuscripts 1916-1920, (Londn: British Museum, 1933), 373.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum, (London: British Museum, 1927), 39-40. n. 52.
Wilhelm Schubart, 'Review of Milne Catalogue of the Literary Papyr in the British Museum', Gnomon 4 (1928), 140-141.
Ernst Wüst - Paul Croenert, 'Die Aufgeforschte', Philologus 84 (1928), 153-172.
A. D. Knox, 'Review of Milne Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 15 (1029), 140-141.
Jerzy Manteuffel, 'Studia Papyrologica II', Eos 32 (1929), 33-40.
Jerzy Manteuffel, De opusculis Graecis Aegypti e papyris lapidibusque collectis (Warszawa 1930), n. 21.
Alfred Koerte, 'Literarische Texte mit Auschuss der Christlichen', Archiv für Papyrusforschung 10 (1932), 62-63. n. 737.
D. L. Page Select Papyri III: Literary Papyri: Poetry (London/Cambridge: Heinemann/Harvard, 1950), 366-371. n. 79.
Ernst Heitsch, Die Griechische Dichterfragmente der römischen Kaiserzeit, (Gottingen: VandenHoeck & Ruprecht), 1961, 41-42. n. 9.
Ian C. Cunningham, Herodae Mimiambi cum appendice fragmentorum mimorum papyraceorum, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1987), 57-58. n. 13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)