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Papyrus 2967

Record Id:

040-003460068

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100085269154.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2967

Title:

Homer, Odyssey XVII and XIX (P.Hib. II 194, TM 61232, LDAB 2372, MP³ 1129)

Scope & Content:

Fragments containing Odyssey XVII and XIX.

Papyrus 2967:

Fragment 1: Odyssey XVII 357-359;

Fragment 2: Odyssey XVII 360-368, with omission of 364;

Fragment 3: Odyssey XIX 400-404;

Fragment 4: Odyssey XIX 407-413, with loss of 409-410.

Papyrus 2967(fragments):

Scraps with few letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003460068

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2967 : Homer, Odyssey XVII and XIX (P.Hib. II 194, TM 61232, LDAB 2372, MP3 1129)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0887]/040-003460068

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Papyrus fragments of varying size reused for mummy cartonnage, with writing on the front along the fibres. The largest fragments contain few words of few lines, and are numbered 1-4 in the frame named Papyrus 2967; the largest of these is fragment 4. The scraps, containing very few letters, are housed in another frame, named Papyrus 2967(Fragments).

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

-0299

End Date:

-0200

Date Range:

3rd century BC

Era:

BCE

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; housed in two glass cases named Papyrus 2967 and Papyrus 2967(Fragments), both measuring 185 x 185 mm.

Script: Regular and well-spaced book-hand. No accents.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba), Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.

Former External References:

P.Hib. II 194

Publications:

E. G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1955), pp. 63-64, no. 194.

W. Lameere, Aperçus de paléographie Homérique: àpropos des papyrus de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssée des collections de Gand, de Bruxelles et de Louvain (Paris: Éditions Érasme 1960), p. , no. 098, and passim.

D. del Corno, I papiri dell'Odissea anteriori al 150 a.Cr. (Rendiconti dell’Istituto Lombardo, Classe di Lettere 94) (Milano: Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere 1961), pp. 46-47.

S. R. West, The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer (Köln: Westdt. Verl. 1967), pp. 267-270.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Homer, epic poet, ? 8th century BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000036354151X

Places:

Ankyropolis (El-Hiba, El-Hibeh), 20th Upper Egyptian nome, Egypt