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Papyrus 3045
- Record Id:
- 040-003779275
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113996052.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471647.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3045
- Title:
- Land Register and List of Menander’s Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2462, TM 61494, LDAB 2641)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a land register on the front, of the late first or early second century, and beginning of a list of nineteen plays of Menander, arranged in alphabetical order (first letter only); the titles preserved begin with the letters alpha to delta; assigned to the second century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779275 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3045 : Land Register and List of Menander’s Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2462, TM 61494, LDAB 2641) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2152]/040-003779275
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Dark-brown papyrus fragment, with writing on all sides. On the front, there are portions of one column written along the fibres, barely legible; on the back, there the beginnings of 20 lines, running across the fibres; ample blank space on the left. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471647.0x000001 (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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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 125 x 95 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 95 x 155 mm.
Script: Small rounded cursive hand, well-formed.
- 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 2462
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 103-104, no. 2462, with pl. i.
Carlo Corbato, Studi Menandrei (Trieste: Del Bianco, 1965), pp. 36-37.
Robert K. Sherk, ‘Zu den Adelphen des Menander’, Mnemosyne 19 (1966), 399.
Kathleen McNamee, Abbreviations in Greek Literary Papyri and Ostraca. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. Supplement 3 (Ann Arbor: The American Society of Papyrologists, 1981), p. xxxii.
Francesca Longo Auricchio, ‘Su alcune liste di libri restituite dai papiri’, Rendiconti dell'Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti di Napoli 46 (1971), 143-150 (p. 147).Colin Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1973), no. 104.
Mariachiara Lama, ‘Aspetti di tecnica libraria ad Ossirinco: copie letterarie su rotoli documentari’, Aegyptus 71 (1991), 55-120 (pp. 64, 102).
Rudolf Kassel, Colin Austin, Poetae comici Graeci. Vols. 1-8 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1983-2001), Vol. 6.2 (1998), p. 16, T41.
Rosa Otranto, Antiche liste di libri su papiro (Roma: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura 2000), pp. 45-50, no. 9, with pl. vii.
Emanuele Castelli, La nascita del titolo nella letteratura greca: dall'epica arcaica alla prosa (Berlin: De Gruyter 2020), p. 148.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri (online), no. 337.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Menander, 342-290 BC
- Places:
- Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt