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Papyrus 2946
- Record Id:
- 040-003536773
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101224031.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147468515.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2946
- Title:
- Comparison between Archilochus and Homer (P.Hib. II 173, TM 59980, LDAB 1092, MP3 136)
- Scope & Content:
- Comparison between Homer and Archilochus, attributed to Heraclides Ponticus (Turner 1955), alternating hexameters of Homer and iambic tetrameters of Archilochus, mostly of gnomic character. Each line is introduced by the name of the author. Iliad IV.182, V.130 and XIV.66 are quoted.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003536773 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2946 : Comparison between Archilochus and Homer (P.Hib. II 173, TM 59980, LDAB 1092, MP3 136) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[1530]/040-003536773
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Papyrus fragment, reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off on all sides and with a parallelogram cut out of its centres; from mummy cartonnage, covered with plaster residue; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Portions of 12 lines survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147468515.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 140 x 90 mm, housed in a glass frame measuring 165 x 120 mm.
Script: Rapid, careless hand of medium size, with cursive elements.
- 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 173
- Publications:
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E. G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1955), pp. 8-9, no. 173.
J. A. Davison, ‘The Study of Homer in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Akten des VIII internationale Kongresses für Papyrologie, Wien 1955 (Wien: R. M. Rohrer 1956), pp. 51-58 (p. 51).
D. L. Page, ‘P.Oxy. 2331 and Others (pp. 189-192)’, Classical Review 7 (1957), pp. 189-192 (p. 192).
F. Lasserre, A. Bonnard, Archiloque. Fragments (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1958), pp. 52-54.
R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship I: From the Beginning to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1968), p. 191 and passim.
M. Treu, Archilochus. Griechisch und Deutsch (München: Heimeran 1959), no. 6.
S. R. Slings, ‘Anonymus, Parallel Lines from Homer and Archilochus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 79 (1989), pp. 1-8.
M. L. West, Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. Volumen I: Archilochus, Hipponax, Theognidea. Editio altera aucta atque emendata (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1989), nos. 219-221.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. 2 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1992), p. 220.
D. E. Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1999), pp. 228-230, no. 219-221.
M. L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (München-Leipzig: K.G. Saur 2001), p. 137, no. w19.
L. Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hibah’, Aegyptus 84 (2004), pp. 33-100 (p. 79 and passim).
D. Lavigne, ‘Archilochus and Homer in the Rhapsodic Context’, in L. Swift, C. Carey (eds.), Iambus and Elegy: New Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), pp. 74-98 (pp. 92-94).
L. Swift, Archilochus: the Poems. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019), nos. 219-221.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)