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Papyrus 3036

Record Id:

040-003472309

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100093241730.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 3036

Title:

Sophocles, Theseus (P.Oxy. XXVII 2452, TM 62743, LDAB 3931, MP³ 1479)

Scope & Content:

Fragments of a papyrus roll preserving portions of a play on Theseus in Crete, presumably by Sophocles, with scholia. Among the parts preserved are Theseus’speeches (fragment 1, with Theseus’name noted in the margin, and fragment 3, with the speaker mentioning past successes and expressing confidence in the upcoming struggle), and a scene with Ariadne and Eriboea (fragment 4 and, perhaps, fragment 5). The scholion in fragment 2, line 16, presumably quotes Aristophanes of Byzantium.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-003472309

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 3036 : Sophocles, Theseus (P.Oxy. XXVII 2452, TM 62743, LDAB 3931, MP3 1479)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[1022]/040-003472309

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

86 numbered fragments (2 of which are missing) and 3 unnumbered scraps of a papyrus roll, housed in five glass frames named Papyrus 3036(1-5), Papyrus 3036(6-21), Papyrus 3036(22-57), Papyrus (58-86), and Papyrus 3036(Frags). The fragments are of varying size, many of them being small scraps, darkened in places, and display some surface damage. Writing runs along the fibres on one side. Modern annotations are found on the back of some fragments.

Papyrus 3036(1-5): Five fragments of moderate size. Fragment 1 bears remains of 15 lines and traces of an additional line at the bottom; fragment 2 remains of 20 lines from the top of a column, with trace of another line at the bottom, and marginal annotations; part of the upper margin survives; in fragment 3 there are portions 23 lines from the top of a column, all lacking the ends; fragment 4 contains the ends of few lines of a column and portions of 18 lines from the top of another column; fragment 5 bears parts of 21 lines.

Papyrus 3036(6-21): 16 fragments, with only 6-7 being of moderate size. Fragment 6 contains the beginnings of 22 lines from the top of a column, and fragment 7 preserves the top of a column; the beginnings of 14 lines, with a gap of 3 lines after line 1, remain. Of the other fragments, no. 9 bears remains of 9 lines, no. 11 preserves 8 lines from the top of a column, broken to the sides, and no. 12 has 8 lines from the top of a column. Part of the upper margin survives in fragments 11-12, 14-15.

Papyrus 3036(22-57): 34 fragments; numbers 43 and 51 are missing. All fragments are of small size and preserve few letters from few lines, with the exception of no. 48, which bears remains of 10 lines, in addition to another line lacuna.

Papyrus 3036(58-86): 29 fragments of small size, preserving few letters from few lines; fragment 75 bears traces of 15 lines in poor condition; fragment 76 is also bigger, but badly damaged. Fragment 61 may be related to fragment 4.

Papyrus 3036(frags): Three unnumbered scraps, bearing few letters.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0299

Date Range:

2nd century-3rd century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Fragments of varying size, housed in five glass frame named Papyrus 3036(1-5), Papyrus 3036(6-21), Papyrus 3036(22-57), and Papyrus 3036(Frags), all measuring 370 x 370 mm, with the exception of Papyrus 3036(Frags), which measures 185 x 185 mm.

Script: Severe Style. Scribe #A24 Johnson (2004). With accents, breathings, quantity marks, stops, paragraphus, diple. Scholia by different hand, small and cursive; iota adscript occasionally inserted by a second hand, responsible for some corrections and deletions.

Custodial History:

Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 3037-3063 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 10 November 1962.

Former External References:

P.Oxy. XXVII 2452

Publications:

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1962), pp. 1-20, no. 2452.

H. Lloyd-Jones, ‘The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part 27 by E. G. Turner, John Rae, L. Koenen, José Maria Fernandez Pomar’, Gnomon 35 (1963), pp. 433-455 (pp. 434-6).

D. L. Page, ‘Notes On Euripides, 'Cretans', And Sophocles, 'Theseus'’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 193 (1967), pp. 32-34 (p. 32).

U. Diotti, ‘Il Teseo di Sofocle’, Dioniso 40 (1966), pp. 43-62.

Τ. B. L. Webster, The Tragedies of Euripides (London: Methuen 1967), pp. 106-107.

R. Carden, The papyrus fragments of Sophocles. An Edition with Prolegomena and Commentary (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter 1974), pp. 110-134.

S. Radt (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (TrGF) 4: Sophocles (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1977), 730 a-g.

C. Eucken, ‘Das anonyme Theseus-Drama und der Oedipus Coloneus’, Museum Helveticum 36 (1979), pp. 136-141.

E. G. Turner, P. J. Parsons, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 56-57, no. 27.

W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 24-25, 63.

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. 109.

Ph. W. Comfort, Encountering the manuscripts: an introduction to New Testament paleography & textual criticism (Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2005), p. 153.

L. Del Corso, ‘Lo ‘stile severo’ nei P.Oxy.: una lista’, Aegyptus 86 (2006), pp. 81-106 (p. 86, no. 70).

K. McNamee, Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt (New Haven, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists 2007), pp. 370-371.

L. Savignago, Eisthesis: il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso 2008), pp. 130-133, no. 22.

L. Battezzato, ‘Teseo ed Eribea: Sofocle (?), P.Oxy. XXVII 2452’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), I papiri di Eschilo e di Sofocle. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Firenze, 14-15 giugno 2012 (Firenze: Firenze University Press 2013), pp. 95-117.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aristophanes the grammarian, of Byzantium, 257-180 BC
Sophocles, tragedian, 497 BC-405 BC

Places:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt