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Papyrus 3044
- Record Id:
- 040-003779274
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113995904.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471643.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3044
- Title:
- Euripides, Cretans (P.Oxy. XXVII 2461, TM 59823, LDAB 928)
- Scope & Content:
- Fragments of a papyrus roll preserving parts of Euripides’ Cretans, with a description of the Minotaur.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779274 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3044 : Euripides, Cretans (P.Oxy. XXVII 2461, TM 59823, LDAB 928) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2151]/040-003779274
- 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 mid portions of 26 lines; fragment 2 carries the ends of 8 lines from one column, and the beginnings of 9 lines of a second column; fragment 3 preserves parts of 7 lines, fragment 4 has portions of 4 lines and fragment 5 of 5 lines. The upper margin survives to 6 mm; the longest line may have been about 85 mm, while the column was presumably 93 mm. Letters are 2-3 mm wide and high on average. The fragments are housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471643.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0199
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size; fragment 1: 93 x 55 mm; fragment 2: 42 x 53 mm; fragment 3: 25 x 30 mm; fragment 4: 15x 20 mm; fragment 5: 20 x 10 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 150 mm.
Script: Informal round hand of medium size and with a slight slant to the right; with one acute accent; elision at times effected and marked by apostrophe; one paragraphus occurs to close a lyric section. There are corrections by the original scribe.
- 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 2461
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 100-103, no. 2461, with pl. i.
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. 447-449).
Hans J. Mette, ‘Euripides, Kreter’, Hermes 91 (1963), p. 256.
Denys L. Page, ‘Notes on Euripides, "Cretans", and Sophocles, "Theseus"’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, New Series 13 (1967), 32-34.
Bruce E. Donovan, Euripides papyri. American studies in papyrology 5 (New Haven-Toronto: 1969), pp. 58-60, no. 10, with plate 6.
James Diggle, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (Oxford: Clarendon Press-Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 115-116.
François Jouan, Herman Van Looy, Euripide. Tome VIII: Fragments 2 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2000), pp. 318, 325-328.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). 1-5 volumes. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5. (2004), pp. 508-512, no. 472b-d.
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. 336-338, no. 79.
Luppe Wolfgang, ‘Zu zwei Fragmenten aus Euripides' Κρῆτες (Fr. 472b und 472e K.)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013), 92-93.
Claudio De Stefani, ‘Note a frammenti euripidei’, Eikasmos 27 (2016), 73-92 (pp. 88-89).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)