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Papyrus 3042
- Record Id:
- 040-003779226
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113993211.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471631.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3042
- Title:
- Euripides, Oedipus (P.Oxy. XXVII 2459, TM 59872, LDAB 979)
- Scope & Content:
- Papyrus fragments preserving portions Euripides’s Oedipus, with the description of the Sphynx and her riddle.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779226 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3042 : Euripides, Oedipus (P.Oxy. XXVII 2459, TM 59872, LDAB 979) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2148]/040-003779226
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Five fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, numbered 1-5 in the frame; with writing along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Fragment 1 bears the ends of 15 lines and part of the upper margin, measuring up to 25 mm; fragment 2 carries parts of 14 columns, lacking beginnings and ends; fragment 3 has a few letters from 6 lines; fragment 4 bears remains of 4 lines; fragment 5 carries a few letters from 3 lines. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471631.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0300
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fragment 1: 105 x 95 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 180 x 205 mm.
Script: Pointed Majuscule, sloping to the right, large and somewhat coarse; with diaeresis, high stops, accents, breathings; elision is not consistently effected.
- 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 2459
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 81-86, no. 2459, with plates v, vi, x.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ‘The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part 27 by E. G. Turner, John Rae, L. Koenen, José Maria Fernandez Pomar’, Gnomon 35 (1963), 433-455 (pp. 446-447).
John Vaio, ‘The New Fragments of Euripides' Oedipus’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 5 (1964), 43-55.
Colin Austin, Nova fragmenta Euripidea in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968), p. 116.
Bruce E. Donovan, Euripides papyri. American studies in papyrology 5 (New Haven-Toronto: 1969), pp. 80-82, no. 20, with plate 19.
Joachim Dingel, ‘Der Sohn des Polybos und die Sphinx. Zu den Ödipustragödien des Euripides und des Seneca’, Museum Helveticum 27 (1970), 90-96.
Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), p. 82.
James Diggle, ‘Notes on the Erectheus, Cresphontes and Oedipus of Euripides’, in Miscellanea Papyrologica. Papyrologica Florentina VII, ed. By Rosario Pintaudi (Firenze: Gonnelli, 1980), pp. 57-60.
Martin Hose, ‘Überlegungen zum 'Oedipus' des Euripides’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 81 (1990), 9-15.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). 1-5 volumes. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5. (2004), pp. 571-574, no. 540.
Guglielmo Cavallo, Herwig Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 2008), pl. 11a.
Lorenza Savignago, Eisthesis. Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008), pp. 298-300, no. 55.
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. 483-485, no. 126.
Enrico E. Prodi, ‘Note a P. Oxy. 2459 (Eur. frr. 540-540b K.)’, Eikasmos 22 (2011), 69-78.
Vayos Liapis, ‘The Fragments of Euripides' "Oedipus": A Reconsideration’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 144 (2014), 309-313.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)