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Papyrus 3049
- Record Id:
- 040-003418794
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100062573618.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143125914.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3049
- Title:
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Sesonchosis Novel (P.Oxy. XXVII 2466, TM 64093, LDAB 5311, MP3 2619.1)
- Scope & Content:
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A piece from the novel about the legendary pharaoh Sesonchosis, an ideal king and world conqueror, recounting some warfare between the Egyptians and the Arabs, the latter being disastrously defeated. A small fraction of survivors able to flee consisted of the contingent of Webelis, an Arabian leader. Egyptians strengthened their border with Arabia against a possible invasion by Webelis.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003418794 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3049 : Sesonchosis Novel (P.Oxy. XXVII 2466, TM 64093, LDAB 5311, MP3 2619.1) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0665]/040-003418794
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Six joining papyrus fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and preserving 28 lines from a bottom of a column; broken at the top, the lower margin being 4.5 cm and the side margins surviving to 2 cm. The average number of letters per line is 24. Traces of adjoining columns can be seen at either side. Another fragment from the same roll is P.Oxy. LXXXI 5262 (Sackler Library, inv. no. 102/24(a)), which preserves 13 lines written by the same hand. Debated whether also P.Oxy. XLVII 3319 belongs to the same roll. Damaged by wormholes throughout; housed in one glass case.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 210 x 125 mm; housed in one glass case measuring 265 x 190 mm.
Script: Formal Mixed style, inconsistently ornamented, sloping to the right. The scribe is Oxyrhynchus Scribe A33 (see Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes, pp. 27-29).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 3036-3063 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 10 November 1962.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XXVII 2466
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1962), pp. 134-136, no. 2466.
W. Luppe, ‘Das neue Bruchstück aus dem Sesongosis-Roman’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 41 (1981), pp. 63-66.
W. Luppe, ‘Reviewed Work: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XLVII’, The Classical Review 31 (1981), pp. 267-269 (p. 268).
J. N. O'Sullivan, W. A. Beck, ‘P. Oxy. 3319: The Sesonchosis Romance’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 45 (1982), pp. 71-83 (p. 82).
J. N. O'Sullivan, ‘The Sesonchosis Romance’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 56 (1984), pp. 39-44.
C. Ruiz-Montero, ‘P.Oxy.2466: The Sesonchosis Romance’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 79 (1989), pp. 51-57.
M. S. Funghi, G. Messeri Savorelli, ‘Note papirologiche e paleografiche’, Tyche Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 7 (1992), pp. 75-88 (pp. 86-88).
S. A. Stephens, J. J. Winkler, Ancient Greek Novels. The Fragments (Princeton: Princeton Univeristy Press 1995), pp. 255-259.
M. P. Lopez Martinez, Fragmentos papiraceos de novela griega (Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, Secretariado de Publicaciones 1998), pp. 359-361, no. 41.
J. R. Morgan, ‘On the Fringes of the Canon: Work on the Fragments of Ancient Greek Fiction’, in W. Haase (ed.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 34.4, Berlin New York 1998), pp. 3293-3390 (pp. 3337-3341).
A. Stramaglia, Eros: antiche trame greche d'amore (Bari: Levante 2000), pp. 66-67.
W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 27-29, 64.
L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 86).
A. Billault, ‘Le roman de Sésonchosis: fragments, thèmes et fiction’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (edd.), I papiri del romanzo antico: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 11-12 giugno 2009 (Firenze: Istituto papirologico "G. Vitelli" 2010), pp. 193-205.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. LXXI (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2016), pp. 19-22, no. 5262 introd.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)