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Papyrus 2722
- Record Id:
- 040-003725097
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100112232834.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471193.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2722
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Texts (P.Lond.Lit. 251-252, TM 61193, 65614)
- Scope & Content:
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Miscellaneous texts.
Three fragments at the top (P.Lond.Lit. 251, TM 61193, LDAB 2333, MP3 894): Portions of a roll containing Homer, Iliad XII; P. Harris 36 is part of the same roll and preserved further lines of the book. The text exhibits plus-verses and omissions of verses.
Left fragment: Iliad XII 128-40; trace of 178 opposite line 130; point prefixed to line 179. Line 137 in lacuna.
Middle fragment: Iliad XII 176-91, and two further lines (192-3 or insertions?); with omission of lines 184-7, and additions of 183a, 189a, 190a.
Right fragment: Iliad XII 249-63; with addition of line 250a; traces of the preceding columns are visible.
Two fragments at the bottom (P.Lond.Lit. 252, TM 65614, LDAB 6865, MP3 1815): Used for backing the fragments at the top, and preserving portions of epic lines from an unknown poem.
Lower right fragment (C): Unrelated to the other fragments; fragment of a document of the Roman period. Unpublished.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003725097 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2722 : Miscellaneous Texts (P.Lond.Lit. 251-252, TM 61193, 65614) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2069]/040-003725097
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Six fragments bearing writing on one side, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in the same glass frame.
Three fragments at the top (A): Three fragments from a light-brown papyrus roll, further portions of which are now at the Cadbury Research Library in Birmingham, inventoried as P. Harris 177 and published as P.Harris I 36. The writing runs along the fibres. Each column originally contained an average of forty-five lines. The left fragment bears the ends of twelve lines from the top of a column running along the fibres, with ample upper margin; traces of the following column are visible. The fragment in the middle bears portions of eighteen lines, all lacking the beginnings; on the right fragment, there are the beginnings of sixteen lines, and traces of another column on the left.
Two fragments at the bottom (B): Used to back the fragments at the top, and belonging to a different papyrus roll. The writing runs along the fibres; the left fragment preserves parts of twelve lines from the top of a column, lacking beginnings and ends; the upper margin partly survives; the second fragment has the central portions of eleven lines, possibly from the foot of a column.
Lower right fragment (C): Papyrus fragment, not belonging to the other rolls; with a few words from four lines running along the fibres.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0199
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- 2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: A: Three fragments of varying size, measuring 75 x 34 mm, 93 x 35 mm, and 80 x 30 mm; B: Two fragments, measuring 92 x 31 mm and 85 x 26 mm; lower right fragment: 30 x 38 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 175 mm.
Script: A: Upright, small and rather compressed hand, with some serifs; some letters extend below and above the writing line; decimal system of stichometry used, with points prefixed to Iliad XII 179 and 254. B: Rather large, upright hand. C: Proficient and neat upright hand, with some ligatures and cursive letterforms.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2722-2740 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) in September 1925. Part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan and Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 251
P.Lond.Lit. 252 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: Trustees of British Museum, 1950), p. 370.
A
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 210-11, no. 251.
George M. Bolling, ‘The New Ptolemaic Papyrus Containing Parts of Iliad, XII, 128–263’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1928), 78-81.
Stephanie West, ‘Stichometrical notes on an Odyssey papyrus’, Scriptorium 18 (1964), 267-8 (p. 267).
Stephanie R. West, The Ptolemaic papyri of Homer (Köln: Westdt. Verl., 1967), pp. 118-31.
Martin L. West, Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (Münich-Leipzig: De Gruyter, 2001), p. 96, no. 217.
B
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 211-12, no. 252.
Laura Giabbani, Testi letterari greci di provenienza egiziana (1920-1945) (Firenze: Ariani, 1947), no. 191.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)