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Papyrus 2945
- Record Id:
- 040-003780471
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100114879351.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471288.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2945
- Title:
- Poetical Onomasticon (P.Hib. II 172, TM 62370, LDAB 3535, MP3 2129)
- Scope & Content:
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List of poetical epithets, usually in the masculine nominative, all of which are compound adjectives, roughly arranged on the basis of their formation or of their meaning. The adjectives usually belong to Homeric and epic vocabulary, although some adjectives occur in the choral and tragic lyric. Many of the words are unknown to our lexica. Attributed to Philetas of Cos; with painted decoration on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780471 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2945 : Poetical Onomasticon (P.Hib. II 172, TM 62370, LDAB 3535, MP3 2129) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2178]/040-003780471
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Portion of a medium-brown papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, with writing on one side along the fibres. The front bears five columns, while the back has painted decoration on plaster. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147471288.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0275
- End Date:
- -0225
- Date Range:
- mid 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 130 x 222 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 195 x 280 mm.
Script: Well-formed, medium-sized upright book-hand, carefully executed, with some archaic traits; paragraphus occurs occasionally. Corrections by a second hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hibah), Egypt. From mummy cartonnage (Mummy A). Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 2943-3035 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 9 April 1960.
- Former External References:
- P.Hib. II 172
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri, volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 1-7, no. 172, with plate 1.
Rudolf Pfeiffer, History of classical scholarship from the beginnings to the end of the Hellenistic age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), pp. 90-92.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Peter J. Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter, 1983), pp. 509-511, no. 991.
Renzo Tosi, ‘La lessicografia e la paremiografia in età alessandrina ed il loro sviluppo successivo’, in La philologie grecque à l’époque hellénistique et romaine, ed. by Franco Montanari, (Vandœuvres-Genève: Fondation Hardt, 1994), pp. 143-97 (pp. 148-49).
Elena Esposito, in Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta, Pars I: Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Vol. 1, fasc. 1: Aeschines – Alcaeus, ed. by Guido Bastianini et al., (München-Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2004), pp. 71-72, Aeschylus 11.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 37.
Elena Esposito, in Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta, Pars I: Commentaria et lexica in auctores; Vol. 1, fasc. 4: Aristophanes – Bacchylides, ed. by Guido Bastianini et al., (München-Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2012), pp. 237, 269, 302-305.
Camilla Rossini, ‘Eur. Hec. 23 e P. Hib. II 172 c. IV 90: possibile protostoria di una variante euripidea’, Eikasmos: quaderni bolognesi di filologia classica 30 (2019), 75-79.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri no. 338 (https://relicta.org/cpp/detail.php?CPP=0338; 23 February 2021).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)