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Papyrus 2952
- Record Id:
- 040-003780493
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115120152.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471308.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2952
- Title:
- Euripides, Heracles (P.Hib. II 179, TM 59926, LDAB 1036)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto
Version of Euripides’ Hercules Furens, with substantial divergences from the medieval tradition. Possibly adaptation of the play for performance of reading purposes (see Meccariello, Philologus 163).
Fr. 1: end of the prologue, anapaestic parodos, with the entry of the chorus of elders, and iambic lines. Different from medieval tradition.
Fr. 4: Announcement of Lycus’s entrance, and Lycus’s speech (Hercules Furens 137-43);
Fr. 3: Lycus’s speech (Hercules Furens 146-60);
Fr. 7: Lycus’s speech (Hercules Furens 161-65);
Fr. 2 col. 1: End of Lycus’s speech and Amphitryo’s reply (Hercules Furens 167-70, only endings);
Fr. 6: Amphitryo’s speech (Hercules Furens 183-84, 186 and other verses).
Fr. 2, col. 2: beginnings of five verses, the last matching Hercules Furens 238.
Fr. 5: new verses, resembling Amphitryo’s appeal for help in Hercules Furens 217-19.
Fr. 8 belongs to another text.
Verso: Undetermined text, quoting Homer, Odyssey XIX 471 (TM 130715).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003780493 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2952 : Euripides, Heracles (P.Hib. II 179, TM 59926, LDAB 1036) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2181]/040-003780493
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Eight fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides. The roll was of small format, the height being up to 157 mm. On the front, the writing runs along the fibres and portions of 4 columns are preserved. Fragment 1 carries portions of 30 lines, lacking beginnings and ends; fragment 2 bears portions of 2 columns of 4 and 5 lines respectively; fragment 3 has the mid parts of 15 lines; fragment 4 carries the central parts of 5 lines; fragment 5 has 5 fragmentary lines; fragment 6 preserves parts of 6 lines; fragment 7 has parts of 5 lines; fragment 8, originally stuck onto fragment 4, has a few letters from 8 lines and may not belong to the other fragments. The column height was 157 mm. On the back, fragments 1, 4 and 6 bear writing across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0299
- End Date:
- -0200
- Date Range:
- 3rd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragment 1: 155 x 55 mm; fragment 2: 35 x 75 mm; fragment 3: 65 x 20 mm; fragment 4: 32 x 35 mm; fragment 5: 25 x 38 mm; fragment 6: 40 x 35 mm; fragment 7: 25 x 30 mm; fragment 8: 30 x 10 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 200 x 175 mm.
Script: Minute semi-cursive hand, ligatured in places; fragment 8 in a different hand. Verso: Larger capital 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 179
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, The Hibeh Papyri. Volume II (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955), pp. 17-18, 21-23, no. 179, with plate iii.
Richard Kannicht, ‘Euripidea in P. Hibeh 2. 179’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 21 (1976), 117-33.
James Diggle, ‘P. Hibeh 179 and the Heracles of Euripides’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 24 (1977), 291-94.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Ein weiteres Indiz für eine 'Zweitfassung' des euripideischen 'Herakles'?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 26 (1977), 59-63.
Manuel F. Galiano, ‘Diez años de papirología literaria’, Estudios clásicos, 23 (1979), 237-304.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Literarische Texte unter Ausschluss der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete ,27 (1980), 240.
Godfrey W. Bond, Euripides. Heracles (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. XXXV.
Martin Cropp, ‘The Text of Euripides' Herakles in P.Hibeh 179’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 48 (1982), 67-73.
Olimpio Musso, ‘Un nuovo papiro di Euripide e conseguenze critico-testuali’, Prometheus, 9 (1983), 49-56.
Antonio Carlini, ‘Recenti scoperte di papiri del teatro greco’, in Actes du VIIe Congrès de la Fédération Internationale d'Études Classiques. Budapest, 3-8 septembre 1979, ed. by János Harmatta (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984), pp. 533-46 (535-36).
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Literarische Texte. Drama’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 37 (1991), 77-91.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zum 'Herakles'-Papyrus P. Hibeh 179’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 95 (1993), 67-73.
Herwig Maehler, ‘Dal libro alla critica del testo’, in Scrivere libri e documenti nel mondo antico. Mostra di papiri della Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, Firenze, 25 agosto-25 settembre 1998, ed. by Guglielmo Cavallo et al. (Firenze: Gonnelli, 1998), pp. 13-23 (p. 19).
Richard Janko, ‘More of Euripides' "Hercules bis" in "P. Hibeh" 179’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 136 (2001), 1-6, with plate.
Lucio Del Corso, ‘Scritture 'formali' e scritture 'informali' nei "volumina" letterari da Al Hiba’, Aegyptus, 84 (2004), 33-100 (pp. 36, 51, and passim).
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF). 1-5 vols. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5.2 (2004), pp. 943-46, no. 953c.
Martin Hose, ‘Der Leser schneide dem Lied Länge ab". Vom Umgang mit Poesie im Hellenismus’, Hermes, 136 (2008), 293-307.
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. 82-90, no. 12.
Francisca Pordomingo, Antologias di época hellenistica en papiro (Firenze: Gonnelli, 2013), pp. 75-79, no. 4.
Thomas W. Allen, D. H. Sutton, Martin Litchfield West, Odyssea (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), no. w29.
Chiara Meccariello, ‘The First Medea and the Other Heracles On Alleged Double Versions of Euripidean Plays’, Philologus, 163 (2019), 198-213.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)