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Papyrus 3037

Record Id:

040-003418836

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100062647492.0x000001

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143125828.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 3037

Title:

Hercules on Oeta (P.Oxy. XXVII 2454, TM 63523, LDAB 4732, MP³1711, TrGF II 653)

Scope & Content:

A fragmentary monologue in iambic trimetres by Heracles during his last moments of life on mount Oeta. He compares his present wretchedness with his glorious past, recounting his deeds: the Nemean lion, Hydra, Antaeus, Alcyones and giants, Erymanthian boar, Thracias mares of Diomedes, Cerberus, Prometheus et al. Adespoton.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003418836

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 3037 : Hercules on Oeta (P.Oxy. XXVII 2454, TM 63523, LDAB 4732, MP3 1711, TrGF II 653)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0667]/040-003418836

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragmentary sheet from a papyrus roll written on one side along the fibres, containing portion of two columns of 30 lines each; of column 1 the ends of the lines survive, of column 2 only the beginnings. The lower margin survives to 3 cm. Housed in one 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: 225 x 135 mm; housed in one glass case measuring 270 x 190 mm.

Script: Upright book-hand, with elongated and narrow letters and oblique serifs. Paragraphoi, marginal marks and corrections by insertion occur.

Custodial History:

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 2454

Publications:

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1962), pp. 27-32, no. 2454.

H. Lloyd-Jones, ‘Reviewed Work: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part 27 by E. G. Turner, John Rae, L. Koenen, José Maria Fernandez Pomar’, Gnomon 35 (1963), pp. 433-455 (pp. 438-439).

L. Colombi, 'P.Oxy. XXVII (1962) Nr. 2454’, Dioniso 38 (1964), pp. 12-22.

W. Morel, ‘Notes on Two Literary Papyri’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 2 (1965), pp. 79-82 (pp. 80-82).

L. Alfonsi, ‘Sul fr. tragico di POxy 2454 (POxy vol. XXVII) e su possibili suoi echi in autori latini’, Aegyptus 46 (1966), pp. 3-12.

Q. Cataudella, "II papiro Ossirinchita 2454 e gli Eraclidi di Eschilo", Revue des études grecques 79 (1966), pp. 38-63.

G. Xanthakis-Karamanos, Studies in Fourth-Century Tragedy (Athēnai: Akadēmia Athēnōn 1980), p. 179.

R. Kannicht, B. Snell, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Vol. 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1981), pp. 225-229, no. 653.

Th. K. Stephanopoulos, ‘Tragica I’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 73 (1988), pp. 207-247 (pp. 244-245).

J. L. López Cruces, ‘P.Oxy. 2454 (=TrGF adesp. 653): Cuestiones de datación, género y autoría’, Myrtia 19 (2004), pp. 5-22.

J. L. López Cruces, ‘Heracles on Oeta (TrGF Adesp. 653 Kn.-Sn.): Two Supplements’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008), pp. 23-26.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt