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Papyrus 2443

Record Id:

040-002105475

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000163

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2443

Title:

Bacchylides’ Encomia (?) with scholia (P.Oxy. XI 1361+P.Oxy. XVII 2081(e), P.Lond.Lit. 48, TM 59337, LDAB 436, MP³ 179)

Scope & Content:

Fifty-one fragments (numbered as 1-48; three additional fragments, now named ‘New fr.’, ‘New fr. 1’, ‘New fr. 2’ in the frames, were later published in P.Oxy. XVII 2081(e)), containing parts of Bacchylides’ Encomia (?) (= Fr. 20, 20A-E) with scholia in a different hand. The title added in the left margin of fragment 4 may be assigned to the second or third century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105475

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2443 : Bacchylides’ Encomia (?) with scholia (P.Oxy. XI 1361+P.Oxy. XVII 2081(e), P.Lond.Lit. 48, TM 59337, LDAB 436, MP3 179)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0755]/040-002105475

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Forty-eight numbered fragments and three further fragments named ‘New fr.’, ‘New fr. 1’ and ‘New fr. 2’ of varying size, all coming from a papyrus roll, darker in places, especially on the back. Writing is on one side along the fibres, the back being blank apart from modern numbering. Only fragments 1, 4 and 5 are of fair size: fragment 1 contains portions of 23 lines of a column and part of the upper margin, joining fragments 2, 3 and 22; fragment 4, which joins fragments 13, 24, 46 48, preserves parts of another column and of the upper and lower margins; fragment 5, which joins fragment 6 and a fragment named as 'new fragment’, has portions of two columns; of the first column, very few letters are preserved by fragment 29. The other fragments are of small size and come from different parts of columns. The surface is damaged by wormholes and abraded in places; occasionally, strips of fibres are missing. The fragments are housed in four glass cases named Papyrus 2443(1), Papyrus 2443(2), Papyrus 2443(3), and Papyrus 2443(4).

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0099

End Date:

0099

Date Range:

1st century BC-1st century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fragment 1 : 181 x 131 mm; fragment 5: 228 x 166 mm. Housed in four glass cases named Papyrus 2443(1), Papyrus 2443(2), Papyrus 2443(3), and Papyrus 2443(4) measuring 275 x 215 mm, 275 x 215 mm, 280 x 310 and 275 x 180 mm respectively.

Script: Formal round hand, rather large and ornate; epsilon-theta style, with the crossbars of these letters being a small dot; different hand, small and cursive, for annotations; a third hand is found in the annotation in the right margin of column 1, line 13 in fr. 5. Mid and high stops, accents, breathings, marks of quantity and elision occur.

Custodial History:

Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2435-2485 by the Egypt Exploration Society on 18 July 1922.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 48
P.Oxy. XI 1361
P.Oxy. XVII 2081(e)

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum 1950), p. 365.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XI (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1915), pp. 19-43, no. 1357.

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 7 (1924), pp. 114-160 (p. 139).

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1927), pp. 79-80, no. 2081(e).

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 36, no. 48.

B. Snell, ‘Backchylides' Marpessa-Gedicht’, Hermes 80 (1952), pp. 156-163.

B. Snell, Bacchylidis carmina cum fragmentis (Leipzig: Teubner 1961), pp. 92-104.

H. Maehler, Bacchylides: carmina cum fragmentis (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner 1970), pp. 92-106, F20.

G. Cavallo, ‘ Lo stile di scrittura ‘epsilon‑theta’ nei papiri letterari: dall’Egitto ad Ercolano’, Cronache Ercolanesi 4 (1974), pp. 33-36 (p. 35, with fig. 3).

G. Cavallo, ‘La scrittura greca libraria tra I secoli I a.C.-I d.C.: materiali, tipologie, momenti’, in D. Harlfinger, G. Prato et al. (eds.), Paleografia e codicologia greca: atti del II colloquio internazionale (Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983) (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso 1991), pp. 11-29 (p. 7, tav. 1, pp. 15-16).

J. Irigoin, Bacchylide. Dithyrambes, Épinicies, Fragments (Paris: Belles Lettres 1993), p. xxxvii, Papyrus P, pp. 232-243.

H. Maehler, Bacchylides: carmina cum fragmentis (Monachium-Lipsia: K. G. Saur 2003¹¹), pp. 93-102.

G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), p. 127, n. 20, and pl. 17a.

J. Danielewicz, ‘Bacchylides fr. 20a, 12 S.-M. and Sappho, P. Köln fr. I-II, 12’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 155 (2006), pp. 19-21.

M. Di Marzio, ‘Bacchilide e Sparta: il fr. 20A Maehler’, in M. Vetta, C. Catenacci (eds.), I luoghi e la poesia nella Grecia antica. Atti del Convegno Università "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, 20-22 aprile 2004 = Università "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara. Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità. Sezione filologica. 4 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso 2006) pp. 199-212.

D. Fearn, Bacchylides: politics, performance, poetic tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), pp. 27-28.

K. McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists 2007), pp. 200-201, no. 79.

G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 78.

G. Bastianini et al. (eds.), Commentaria et lexica graeca in papyris reperta (CLGP). 1,1,4, Pars 1, Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Vol. 1, Aeschines - Bacchylides; Fasc. 4, Aristophanes – Bacchylides (München: Saur 2012), pp. 298-301.

G. W. Houston, Inside Roman libraries : book collections and their management in antiquity (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press 2014), p. 159.

G. B. D’Alessio, ‘Bacchylides’ Banquet Songs’, in V. Cazzato, D. Obbink, E. E. Prodi (eds.), The Cup of Songs. Studies on Poetry and the Symposion (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), pp. 63-84.

E. E. Prodi, ‘Titles and markers of poem-end in the papyri of Greek choral lyric’, in T. Derda, A. Łajtar, and J. Urbanik (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology. Warsaw, 29 July - 3 August 2013 (Journal of Juristic Papyrology suppl. 28) (Warsaw: Faculty of Law and Administration, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlag 2016), pp. 1137-1184 (pp. 1145-1146).

A. Tibiletti, ‘Coniectanea Bacchylidea’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 200 (2016), pp. 36-38.

A. Tibiletti, ‘Coniectanea Bacchylidea (2)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 205 (2018), pp. 13-14.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bacchylides, lyric poet, 5th century BC

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt

Related Material:

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