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Papyrus 2652
- Record Id:
- 040-002105647
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0002a9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471146.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2652
- Title:
- Account, Archilochus and Euripides (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14-15, P.Lond.Lit. 54, 73, TM 1845-6, 91989)
- Scope & Content:
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Upper papyrus (A) (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14, P.Lond.Lit. 54, TM 91989, TM 1845, LDAB 333, MP3 130): On one side (verso in Milne, Roberts, et al., possibly recto in Prodi 2019), Archilochus’ tetrameters, perhaps from the end of the work (Prodi 2019); on the other side (possibly verso in Prodi 2019), portions of an account, presumably belonging to the archive of Zenon, unpublished.
Lower papyrus (B) (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 15, P.Lond.Lit. 73, TM 1846, LDAB 1035, MP3 397): Euripides, Hippolytus 1165-1179, with small trace of 1164 (column 1), and 1194-1204 (column 2).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105647 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2652 : Account, Archilochus and Euripides (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14-15, P.Lond.Lit. 54, 73, TM 1845-6, 91989) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1233]/040-002105647
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, with writing on both sides along the fibres; on one side, there are portions of 8 lines lacking the beginnings; a blank space of 40 mm follows on the right; on the other side are portions of 1 column, written perpendicularly in relation to the other text.
Lower papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; with writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, portions of two columns survive, originally of 27 lines; intercolumn extant.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471146.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0270
- End Date:
- -0230
- Date Range:
- Mid 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: 57 x 102 mm B: 96 x 116 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 225 x 165 mm.
Script: A: Slightly slanting and somewhat rapid hand, compressed in places and upright, rather large cursive hand on the other side; B: Rather broad and somewhat irregular hand, displaying some affinities with contemporary cursive hands in some letterforms; no lectional sign.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Philadelpheia, meris of Herakleides, Arsinoite nome, (?) Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2652-2721 from Dr A. N. Kondilios in July 1925. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Columbia University.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 54
P.Lond.Lit. 73
Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14
Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 15 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 370.
A
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 42-3, no. 54, with pl. IVA.
Alfred Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 10 (1932), p. 43, no. 719.
Colin H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 4, no. 4b.
Ivan Boserup, ‘Archiloque ou épigone alexandrin? Sur l’authenticité du fr. 54 A (Diehl)’, Classica et mediaevalia: revue danoise d'histoire et de philologie publiée par la Société danoise pour les études anciennes et médiévales 27 (1966), 28-38.
Henry Wood, ‘On a fragment falsely ascribed to Archilochus’, Museum Helveticum 23 (1966), 228-33.
Giovanni Tarditi, Archiloco. Introduzione, testimonianze sulla vita e sull'arte, testo critico, traduzione (Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1968) no. 92.
Martin L. West, Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus, 2nd ed. (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 1974), fr. 106.
Annette Schutgens, in Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive (Pap.Lug.Bat. XX), ed. by Pieter W. Pestman (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980), no. 14.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI) (Leiden: Brill, 1981), p. 40.
Francesco Bossi, Studi su Archiloco, 2nd ed. (Bari: Adriatica, 1990), p. 162.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 37.
Guglielmo Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, ed. by Roger S. Bagnall, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 101-148 (p. 105).
Enrico E. Prodi, ‘L’edizione antica delle opere di Archiloco’, Prometheus 45 (2019), 3-43 (pp. 17-18, and passim, with plates 3A-B).
B
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 51-2, no. 73, with pl. IVB.
Colin H. Roberts, Greek literary hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 3, no. 3a.
Annette Schutgens, in Greek and Demotic Texts from the Zenon Archive (Pap.Lug.Bat. XX), ed. by Pieter W. Pestman (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980), no. 15.
Pieter W. Pestman, A guide to the Zenon Archive (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XXI) (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981), p. 40.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 36.
Paolo Carrara, Il testo di Euripide nell'antichità: ricerche sulla tradizione testuale euripidea antica, sec. IV a.C-sec. VIII d.C. (Firenze: Università degli studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità Giorgio Pasquali, 2009), pp. 59-60, no. 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)