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Papyrus 3039
- Record Id:
- 040-003779276
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113996188.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471617.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3039
- Title:
- Tax Register and List of Euripides’s Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2456, TM 59821, LDAB 926)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a tax register on the front, and list of eighteen plays of Euripides, arranged in alphabetical order (first letter only); the titles preserved begin with the letters sigma to chi; assigned to the second century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779276 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3039 : Tax Register and List of Euripides’s Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2456, TM 59821, LDAB 926) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2153]/040-003779276
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Medium-brown papyrus fragment, with writing on all sides. On the front, there are portions of one column written along the fibres; on the back, there is one column, running across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471617.0x000001 (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: 142 x 77 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 205 x 155 mm.
Script: Recto: Upright, neat and regular cursive hand. Verso: Neat, slightly sloping capital, with a tendency to become cursive.
- Custodial History:
-
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 2456
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 69-70, no. 2456, with pl. iii.
Nikos Ch. Chourmouziadis, ‘Satyrika’, Hellenika 21 (1968), 160-163, 256-7.
Eric G. Turner, ‘Euripidean hypotheses in a new papyrus’, in Proceedings of the IX International Congress of Papyrology. Oslo, 19-22 August 1958, ed. by Leiv Amundsen, Vegard Skånland (Oslo: Norwegian Universities Press, 1961), pp. 1-17.
Luciano Canfora, Conservazione e perdita dei classici (Padova: Antenore, 1974), p. 10.
Mariachiara Lama, ‘Aspetti di tecnica libraria ad Ossirinco: copie letterarie su rotoli documentari’, Aegyptus 71 (1991), 55-120 (p. 63, no. 50).
Rosa Otranto, Antiche liste di libri su papiro (Roma: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura 2000), pp. 51-54, no. 10, with pl. vii.
Nikolaus Pechstein, Euripides Satyrographos. Ein Kommentar zu den Euripideischen Satyrspielfragmenten (Stuttgart-Leipzig: Teubner, 1998), p. 228, 247-248.
Emanuele Castelli, La nascita del titolo nella letteratura greca: dall'epica arcaica alla prosa (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 138-139.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri (online), no. 339.
- 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