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Papyrus 3043
- Record Id:
- 040-003779228
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113993252.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471636.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3043
- Title:
- Tax Register and Euripides, Telephus (P.Oxy. XXVII 2460, TM 59801, LDAB 905)
- Scope & Content:
- Portions of a papyrus roll, bearing a tax register on the front, with columns numbered at the top (unpublished); the back was reused to host Euripides’s Telephus.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779228 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3043 : Tax Register and Euripides, Telephus (P.Oxy. XXVII 2460, TM 59801, LDAB 905) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2149]/040-003779228
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fifty-one fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, numbered 1-51 in the frame; with writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front, and across them on the back. Letter height is 4 mm on average, interlinear space 5 mm; the upper margin survives to 2 mm (fragment 6) and the lower to 59 mm (fragment 15). The fragments are housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471636.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0050
- End Date:
- 0099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 1st century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fragment 1: 80 x 60 mm; fragment 10: 115 x 50 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 280 x 395 mm.
Script: Recto: Competent and rapid cursive hand. Verso: Small, practised cursive hand, overall regular; with rough breathing, quantity marks, punctuation; elision is not always 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 2460
- Publications:
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Eric W. Handley, John R. Rea, The Telephus of Euripides. Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 5 (London: University of London Institute of Classical Studies, 1957)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 87-100, no. 2460.
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. 44-45, no. 4, with plates 2-3.
James Diggle, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford: Clarendon Press-Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 133-134.
Claudia Preiser, Euripides, Telephos: Einleitung, Text, Kommentar. Spudasmata 78 (Zürich-New York: Olms, 2000), pp. 143-161, fr. 1.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). 1-5 volumes. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5. (2004), pp. 704-714, no. 727(a).
Lorenza Savignago, Eisthesis. Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008), pp. 305-309, no. 57.
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. 342-344, no. 80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Euripides, playwright, 484 BC-406 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121382034 - Places:
- Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt