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Papyrus 3041
- Record Id:
- 040-003779225
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113992604.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471626.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3041
- Title:
- Euripides, Cresphontes (P.Oxy. XXVII 2458, TM 59861, LDAB 967)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragments of a papyrus roll with Euripides’ Cresphontes with stage directions; possibly an actor’s copy of the script. This scene comes from the prologue of the play and part of the parodos, when Cresphontes returns to Messene to avenge his murdered father.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779225 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3041 : Euripides, Cresphontes (P.Oxy. XXVII 2458, TM 59861, LDAB 967) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2147]/040-003779225
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Six fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, numbered 1-6 in the frame; with writing along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Fragment 1 bears the tops of three consecutive columns and part of the upper margin, measuring up to 10 mm; fragment 2 carries the remains of one column and part of the lower margin; fragment 3 a few letters from 7 lines; fragment 4 remains of 6 lines; fragment 5 a few letters from 2 lines; fragment 6 bears portions of 1 column. Letters are 2-3 mm high on average. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471626.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fragment 1: 120 x 205 mm; fragment 2: 80 x 83 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 360 x 330 mm.
Script: Medium-sized, mixed-style hand, slightly sloping to the right, written fairly fast; overall bilinear, with some long descenders; diaeresis, high stops, breathings and accents occur; with some corrections, paragraphus and marginal annotations.
- Custodial History:
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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 2458
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 73-81, no. 2458, with pl. viii.
E. John Jory, ‘"Algebraic" Notation in Dramatic Texts’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 10 (1963), 65-78.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ‘The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part 27 by E. G. Turner, John Rae, L. Koenen, José Maria Fernandez Pomar’, Gnomon 35 (1963), 433-55 (pp. 444-6).
Eric G. Turner, ‘Dramatic representations in Graeco-Roman Egypt: how long do they continue?’, (pp. 120-128)’, L'Antiquité Classique 32 (1963), 120-128 (pp. 122-127).
Hans J. Mette, ‘Euripides, Kresphontes’, Hermes 92 (1964), 391-395.
Olimpio Musso, ‘I Γεωργοί di Aristofane e il Cresfonte di Euripide’, Studi italiani di filología classica 36 (1964), 80-89 (pp. 87-88).
Olimpio Musso, ‘Ancora sul prologo del "Cresfonte" di Euripide’, Aegyptus 45 (1965), 151-156.
Olimpio Musso, ‘Eurip. Cresph., POxy. 2458, col. II, v. 24’, Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica 93 (1965), 267.
Eric G. Turner, ‘Euripides, Kresphontes: A Note’, Hermes 93 (1965), 256.
Sante A. Cengarle, ‘Note sul Cresphontes di Euripide’, Dioniso 40 (1966), 63-76.
Eric G. Turner, ‘The Prologue to Euripides' Cresphontes’, Aegyptus 46 (1966), p. 93.
Olimpio Musso, ‘Recenti contributi a Eurip., Cresph. POx. 2458’, Maia N.S. 19 (1967), 62-66.
Colin Austin, Nova fragmenta Euripidea in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968), no. 66.
Bruce E. Donovan, Euripides papyri. American studies in papyrology 5 (New Haven-Toronto: 1969), pp. 76-78, no. 18, with plates 16-17.
Annette Harder, Euripides' Kresphontes and Archelaos: introduction, text, and commentary (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985), pp. 18-24.
Eric G. Turner, Greek manuscripts of the ancient world, ed. by Peter J. Parsons (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1987), pp. 64-65, no. 2.
James Diggle, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford: Clarendon Press-Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 111-113.
François Jouan, Herman Van Looy, Euripide. Tome VIII: Fragments 2 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2000), pp. 270-1, 274-279.
Enrico Medda, ‘Il monologo di Cresfonte e una parodia aristofanea recuperata (Eur. fr. 448a,83-109 K., Alc. 840, Ar. Ach. 480-488)’, Eikasmos 13 (2002), 67-84, (pp. 68-9, and passim).
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). 1-5 volumes. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5. (2004), pp. 479-485, no. 448a.
Tatiana Gammacurta, Papyrologica scaenica: i copioni teatrali nella tradizione papiracea (Hellenica 20) (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2006), pp. 95-110, no. 10.
Lorenza Savignago, Eisthesis. Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008), pp. 269-275, no. 52.
Paolo Carrara, Il testo di Euripide nell'antichità: ricerche sulla tradizione testuale euripidea antica, sec. IV a.C-sec. VIII d.C. (Firenze: Università degli studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità Giorgio Pasquali, 2009), pp. 438-41, no. 113.
Katherine Lu Hsu, ‘P. Mich. 6973: The Text of a Ptolemaic Fragment of Euripides' Cresphontes’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 190 (2014), 13-29 (25-9).
Claudio De Stefani, ‘Note a frammenti euripidei’, Eikasmos 27 (2016), 73-92 (pp. 87-8).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)