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Papyrus 2239

Record Id:

040-002105453

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00014d

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143124025.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2239

Title:

Tax Register and Rhetorical Exercises (P.Lond.Lit. 193, TM 63521, LDAB 4730, MP³2524)

Scope & Content:

Recto: Tax register, assigned to the second century; unpublished.

Verso: Two progymnasmatic compositions, quoting Iliad, Odyssey, and Hesiod, and with coronis.

Fragment 1, columns 1-2: Rhetorical exercise in praise of ‘aidos’, quoting Iliad V 531 = XV 563 in column 1, line 11, Odyssey VI 222 in column 1 lines 26-28, and Works and Days 318 in column 1, lines 32-34. With coronis in column 2.

Fragment 2, columns 1-2: Rhetorical exercise on the phoenix, focusing on the bird's song and physical appearance.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105453

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2239 : Tax Register and Rhetorical Exercises (P.Lond.Lit. 193, TM 63521, LDAB 4730, MP3 2524)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0695]/040-002105453

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Two fragments of a papyrus roll, bearing writing on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. A thin strip, 55 mm long, is detached from the fragments. Remains of four columns are preserved on both sides. On the recto, only the last column is in good condition, although still fragmentary.

The verso preserves portions of four columns, two on each fragment. The second and the third are very fragmentary: only the beginnings and the ends of a few lines remain in column 2 and 3 respectively. Columns 1 and 4 are better preserved, with 35 lines in column 1 and 30 in column 4, fragmentary in places. The thin strip of papyrus has scanty traces of 4 further lines belonging to column 2.

The fragments are mounted in a glass case.

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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: Left fragment: 345 x 143 mm; Right fragment: 320 x 134 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 395 x 385 mm.

Script: Recto: Sloping cursive hand; Verso: Irregular informal upright hand with some cursive traits.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2103-2238 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) in May 1920.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 193

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 the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 158-160, no. 193.

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 10 (1932), pp. 114-160 (pp. 220 no. 750).

J. U. Powell, E. A. Barber, New chapters in the history of Greek literature, second series; some recent discoveries in Greek poetry and prose, chiefly of the fourth century B.C., and later times (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1974), pp. 123-124.

A. Stramaglia, ‘Fra ‘consumo’ e ‘impegno’: usi didattici della narrativa nel mondo antico’, in O. Pecere, A. Stramaglia (eds.), La letteratura di consumo nel mondo greco-latino. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cassino, 14-17 settembre 1994 (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli studi di Cassino 1996), pp. 97-166 (p. 105 n. 26).

J. R. Morgan, ‘On the fringes of the canon: works on the fragment of Greek fiction 1936-1995’, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 34.4 (1998), pp. 3293-3390 (p. 3388).

R. Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind. Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton-Oxford: Princeton University Press 2001), p. 229.

A. Stramaglia, ‘Amori impossibili. PKöln 250, le raccolte proginnasmatiche e la tradizione retorica dell’‘amante di un ritratto’ [tavole 1-5]’, in B. J. Schröder, J.-P. Schröder, Studium declamatorium. Untersuchungen zu Schulübungen und Prunkreden von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit (München: K. G. Sauer 2003), pp. 213-239 (pp. 226-227, n. 41).

F. Pordomingo, ‘Ejercicios preliminares de la composición retórica y literaria en papiro: el encomio’, in J. A. Fernández Delgado, F. Pordomingo, A. Stramaglia (eds.), Escuela y literatura en Grecia antigua. Actas del Simposio Internacional, Universidad de Salamanca, 17-19 Noviembre de 2004 (Cassino: Edizioni dell'Università degli studi di Cassino 2007), pp. 405-453 (pp. 439-440).

D. Colomo, ‘The Avis Phoenix in the Schools of Rhetoric: P.Mil. Vogl. I 20 and P.Lond. Lit. 193 Revisited', Segno e Testo 11 (2013), pp. 29-78.

D. Colomo, ‘The Avis Phoenix in the Schools of Rhetoric: P.Mil. Vogl. I 20 and P.Lond. Lit. 193 Revisited', Segno e Testo 12 (2014), p. 411.

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)