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Papyrus 3046
- Record Id:
- 040-003779277
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113996841.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471654.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3046
- Title:
- Tax Register and Commentary (P.Oxy. XXVII 2463, TM 59531, LDAB 926)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of a tax register on the front, reused on the back for a commentary, apparently on a poetic text or mythography, concerning the legend of Poimandrus, a Boeatian hero who founded Tanagra and killed one of his sons. The story deviates from Plutarch’s version. The commentary may have been on Callimachus’s Victoria Berenices or Lycophron’s Alexandra.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003779277 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3046 : Tax Register and Commentary (P.Oxy. XXVII 2463, TM 59531, LDAB 926) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2154]/040-003779277
- 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, with lower margin extant; on the back, there is one column, running across the fibres, broken off at the top and right; with a few traces of a preceding column. The lower margin measures 40 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471654.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 220 x 108 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 255 x 165 mm.
Script: Recto: Upright, neat and regular cursive hand. Verso: Severe style, with a slight slant to the right, generally bilinear and carefully executed.
- 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 2463
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Vol. XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 104-110, no. 2463, with pl. x.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ‘The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part 27 by E. G. Turner, John Rae, L. Koenen, José Maria Fernandez Pomar’, Gnomon 35 (1963), 433-55 (pp. 449-50).
Hans J. Mette, 'Die 'Kleinen' griechischen Historiker heute', Lustrum 21 (1978), 5-43 (pp. 25, 27).
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Peter J. Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 1983), p. 347, no. 715.
Enrico Livrea, ‘P. Oxy. 2463: Lycophron and Callimachus’, The Classical Quarterly, New Series 39 (1989), 141-47.
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, ‘A Cold Reception in Callimachus' Victoria Berenices (S.H. 257–265)’, The Classical Quarterly, New Series 43 (1993), 206-14 (p. 206, n. 1).
C. D. De Luca, ‘A proposito della testimonianze di Aristofane di Beozia in POxy. 2463 v.’, Rudiae. Ricerche sul mondo classico 7 (1995), 191-96, with pl. i.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXIV (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1997), p. 116.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2005), pp. 25-26, nos. 257-58.
André Hurst, Lycophron, Alexandra. Collection des universités de France Série grecque (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008), p. lx.
André Hurst, ‘Un commentaire de Lycophron dans un papyrus d'Oxyrhynque?’, in Sur Lycophron. Recherches et rencontres. Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de Genève 29, ed. by André Hurst, (Genève: Université de Genève, 2012), pp. 134-40.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri (online), no. 52.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)