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Papyrus 3038
- Record Id:
- 040-003906489
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122299381.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471604.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3038
- Title:
- Hypotheses of Euripides’ Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2455, TM 59820, LDAB 925, MP3 453)
- Scope & Content:
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Portions of a papyrus roll containing narrative summaries (hypotheses) of Euripides’ plays, including the first line and summaries of the plays in alphabetical order of their titles from the letter 'mu' to 'chi'. The plays are Medea, Melanippe Sophe, Oedipus, Orestes, Peliades, Sciron, Stheneboea, Syleus, Telephus, Temenidae, Temenus, Tennes, Troades, Hypsipyla, Phaethon, Philoctetes, Phoenissae, Phoenix, Phrixus, Chrysippus. Additional fragments from the same roll are now in Oxford, Sackler Library, and Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003906489 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3038 : Hypotheses of Euripides’ Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2455, TM 59820, LDAB 925, MP3 453) - Contains:
- Papyrus 3038(1) : Part 1 of the Hypotheses of Euripides' Plays
Papyrus 3038(2) : Part 2 of the Hypotheses of Euripides' Plays
Papyrus 3038(3) : Part 3 of the Hypotheses of Euripides' Plays
Papyrus 3038(4) : Part 4 of the Hypotheses of Euripides' Plays
Papyrus 3038(5) : Part 5 of the Hypotheses of Euripides' Plays
Papyrus 3038(6) : Part 6 of the Hypotheses of Euripides' Plays
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- 032-002104451[2366]/040-003906489
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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Fragments of varying size from a medium-brown papyrus roll, housed in six glass frames named Papyrus 3038(1), Papyrus 3038(2), Papyrus 3038(3), Papyrus 3038(4), Papyrus 3038(5), Papyrus 3038(6); written on one side along the fibres; the back is blank. There are about 35 lines per column; the average column width is 90 mm; the intercolumn measures about 25 mm. Additional fragments from the same roll are now in Oxford, Sackler Library, inventoried as 102/195(e), and Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, inventoried as P. gr. 2676 a.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Possible length of the original roll: 9800 mm. Housed in six glass frames.
Script: Medium-sized informal round hand, upright, regular but not bilinear, with irregular use of serifs and ligatures; high dot and diaeresis occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented with a lot comprising Papyri 3036-3063 by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Society on 10 November 1962.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. XXVII 2455
- Publications:
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Eric G. Turner, ‘Euripidean Hypotheses in a New Papyrus’, in Proceedings of the IX International Congress of Papyrology, Oslo, 19th-22nd August, 1958, ed. by Leiv Amundsen (Oslo: Norwegian Universities Press, 1961), pp. 1-17.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 32-68, no. 2455, with pl. VI.
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. 439-443).
Jacques Schwartz, ‘Wartetext 7’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 4 (1969), 43-44.
Olimpio Musso, ‘Per la ricostruzione del "Cresfonte" euripideo’, Dioniso, 44 (1970), 64-71.
Wiktor Steffen, ‘Euripides' "Skiron" und der Prolog der Lamia’, Eos, 59 (1971), 25-33.
Wiktor Steffen, ‘The Satyr-Dramas of Euripides’, Eos, 59 (1971), 203-26.
Rudolf Keydell, ‘Zur Hypothesis des Euripideischen Phaethon’, Hermes, 102 (1974), 117.
Michael W. Haslam, ‘The Authenticity of Euripides, Phoenissa 1-2 and Sophocles, Electra 1’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 16 (1975), 149-74 (p. 150).
Dana Ferrin Sutton, ‘Three Notes on P. Oxy. XXVII 2455 (Euripidean Hypothesis)’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 13 (1976), 77-79.
William M. Calder, ‘A Reconstruction of Euripides Philoctetes’, in Greek Numismatics and Archaeology. Essays in Honor of Margaret Thompson (Wetteren: N.R., 1979) pp. 53-62.
Annette Harder, ‘A New Identification in P. Oxy. 2455?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 35 (1979), 7-14.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zur "Phoinissai"-Hypothesis in P. Oxy. 2455’, Philologus, 126 (1982), 313-15.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Der Anfang der Hypothesis zu Euripides' "Skiron" (P. Oxy. 2455 fr. 6)’, Studi classici e orientali, 32 (1982), 231-33.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zu einigen kleinen Bruchstücken der Euripides-Hypotheseis P. Oxy. 2455’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 49 (1982), 15-21 (pp. 19-20).
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Plazierung und Identifizierung von P. Oxy. 2455, fr. 18’, Anagennesis, 3 (1983), 125-42.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Hypothesis zu Euripides' "Phaëthon" im Pap. Oxy. 2455’, Philologus, 127 (1983), 135-39.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Patrikos keraunos im Phrixos A des Euripides?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 51 (1983), 25-28.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zur Reihenfolge des "Ph"-Titel in den Euripides-Hypotheseis P. Oxy. 2455. (Zur "Hypsipyle"-und zur "Phaëthon"-Hypothesis)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 52 (1983), 43-44.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Hypothesis zum "Phrixos Deuteros" des Euripides’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 30 (1984), 31-37.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zu P.Strasb. 2676 Bd / 'Stheneboia'-Hypothesis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 55 (1984), 7-8.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Dikaiarchos' "hupothesis ton Euripidou muthon" (mit einem Beitrag zur 'Troades'-Hypothesis)’, in Aristoteles Werk und Wirkung. Paul Moraux gewidmet. I. Aristoteles und seine Schule (Berlin - New York: W.de Gruyetr, 1985), pp. 610-15.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Medeia-Hypothesis’, Anagennesis, 4 (1986), 37-58.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Identifizierung des Hypothesis-Schlusses auf P. Oxy. 2455, fr. 5’, Anagennesis, 4 (1986), 223-43.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Hypothesis zum ersten 'Phrixos' des Euripides’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 32 (1986), 5-13.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Eine Hypothesis zu einem euripideischen Temeniden-Drama’, Eos, 75 (1987), 251-56.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Synonyma-Gebrauch in den Euripides-Hypotheseis - Zur 'Orestes'-Hypothesis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 65 (1986), 29-30.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zwei Hypotheseis zu Euripides-Dramen der Temenos-Sage (P. Oxy. 2455 fr. 9 und fr. 10)’, Prometheus, 13 (1987), 193-203.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Ein ungewisses Fragment in der Sammlung euripideischer Hypotheseis. Ein Deutungsversuch von P. Oxy. 2455 fr. 7.’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 34 (1988), 15-25.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Der Umfang der euripideischen Papyrus-Hypotheseis (Mit einem Beitrag zur 'Hypsipyle'-Hypothesis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 72 (1988), 27-33.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Der Anfang der Hypothesis zur "Melanippe sophe"’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 73 (1988), 30.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Der zweite Anschlag auf Bellerophontes: Zum Ende der 'Stheneboia'-Hypothesis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 75 (1988), 49-50.
James Diggle, ‘The Papyrus Hypothesis of Euripides' Orestes (P. Oxy. 2455 Fr. 4 Col. IV 32-9 + Fr. 141)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 77 (1989), 1-11.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘P. Oxy. 2455 fr. 11: ein Hypothesis-Anfang?’, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 32 (1989), 243-48.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Neue Erkenntnisse aus Euripides-Papyri’, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 33 (1990-1992), 39-44.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Hypothesis zu Euripides' 'Danaë'’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 87 (1991), 1-7.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Philoktets Aufenthalt unmittelbar nach seiner Verwundung. Euripides' Φιλοκτήτης (Hypothesis P. Oxy. 2455)’, Tyche, 7 (1992), 163-64.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Ein Rest der 'Oineus'-Hypothesis in P.Oxy. 2455’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 90 (1992), 48-49.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Ein neues Fragment aus dem Anfang der Hypothesis zum Φρῖξος δεύτερος’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 39 (1993), 13.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Eine neue Lesung in der 'Tennes'-Hypothesis’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 39 (1993), 15-16.
Carl Werner Müller, ‘Zur Hypothesis des euripideischen 'Philoktet' POxy 2455 fr. 17, 246ff.’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 98 (1993), 19-24.
Paolo Carrara, ‘Sull'inizio delle Fenicie di Euripide’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 102 (1994), 43-51.
James Diggle, ‘The Papyrus Hypothesis of Orestes (P. Oxy. 2455 fr. 4 col. IV 32-9 + fr. 141)’, in Euripidea. Collected Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. 327-40.
Wolfgang Luppe, Die 'Skiron'-Hypothesis’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 40 (1994), 13-19.
Nikolaus Pechstein, Euripides Satyrographos. Ein Kommentar zu den Euripideischen Satyrspielfragmenten (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998), pp. 196-204, 243-46, 255.
Monique Van Rossum-Steenbeek, Greek readers' digests? Studies on a selection of subliterary papyri (Leiden-New York: Brill, 1998), pp. 205-28, no. 16.
François Jouan, H. Van Looy, Euripide, Tragedies: Tome VIII, 2eme Partie: Fragments de Bellerophon a Protesilas (Paris: CUF, 2000), pp. 334-35, 354-57.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Ein erneuter Herstellungsversuch in der Hypothesis zu einem Temeniden-Drama des Euripides (P. Mich. Inv. 1319 / P. Oxy. 2455 fr. 107)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 149 (2004), 10-14.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. 1-5 vols. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5.1 (2004), pp. 525-26, no. i; p. 529, no. iii. Vol. 5.2 (2004), p. 607 no. iiia, pp. 645-47 no. iia; pp. 657-58 no. iii; pp. 660-61 no. iia; pp. 671-72 no. ii; p. 681 no. iiib; pp. 719-22 nos. i-iii; p. 732 no. ii; pp. 736-38 no. iiia; p. 798 no. ii; pp. 827-28 no. iiia; p. 845 no. iia; pp. 857-59 no. iia: pp. 861-62 no. iia; p. 877 no. iii, p. 897, no. 881a.
Peter Bing, ‘Afterlives of a Tragic Poet: The Hypothesis in the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides’, in Ancient Scholarship and Grammar. Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts (Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes, 8), ed. by Stephanos Matthaios, Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos (Berlin - New York: W. de Gruyter, 2011), pp. 201-206.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zum Schlusssatz der Hypothesis zu Euripides' Φιλοκτήτης’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 58 (2012), 3-4.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zum Euripides-Hypotheseis-Papyrus P.Oxy. 2455 fr. 9’, Prometheus, 39 (2013), 44.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Namen der Söhne des Herakliden Aristodemos’, Prometheus, 39 (2013), 55.
Chiara Meccariello, Le hypotheseis narrative dei drammi euripidei: testo, contesto, fortuna (Roma: Edizioni di "Storia e letteratura", 2014), pp. 240-64, 290-358.
Carlo M. Lucarini, Cristiana Melidone, ‘Ancora sull'inizio delle Phoenissae di Euripide e dell'Electra sofoclea’, Maia N.S., 67 (2015), 472-76.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, LXXXI (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2016), pp. 146-51, no. 5285.
Massimo Magnani, ‘The ancient manuscript tradition of the Euripidean hypotheses’, in Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology (Barcelona 1-6 August 2016), ed. by Alberto Nodar et al. (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Monserrat, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019), pp. 135-43.
Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri, no. 31 (https://relicta.org/cpp/detail.php?CPP=0031, 8 July 2021).
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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