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Papyrus 3040
- Record Id:
- 040-003907393
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100122585350.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147471621.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3040
- Title:
- Tax Register and Hypotheses of Euripides’ Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2457, TM 111103, 59822, LDAB 927)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto (TM 111103): Portion of a late first century tax register, unpublished.
Verso (TM 59822, LDAB 927, MP3 454): Hypotheses of some of Euripides’s plays. The surviving portion preserves the summaries of Alcestis and Aeolus; another fragment now in Oxford, inventoried as 42 5B 78/J(3-4) b and published as P.Oxy. LII 3650, preserves the summaries of other plays, viz. Alexandros and Andromache. Assigned to the early 2nd century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003907393 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3040 : Tax Register and Hypotheses of Euripides’ Plays (P.Oxy. XXVII 2457, TM 111103, 59822, LDAB 927) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[2373]/040-003907393
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus roll, complete at the bottom and broken off on the other sides; written on both sides. The front bears parts from the foot of a column and traces of another column, written along the fibres; the lower margin is extant. On the back, there are portions of one column written across the fibres. The lower margin is extant. Another fragment of the same roll is now in Oxford, at the Sackler Library, inventoried as 42 5B 78/J(3-4)b. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0075
- End Date:
- 0125
- Date Range:
- Late 1st century-early 2nd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 188 x 83 mm. Housed in a glass frame measuring 270 x 130 mm.
Script: Recto: Rapid and sloping cursive hand, with lines inclining upwards. Verso: Irregular and small hand, with a few ligatures in places; some uprights tend to slope to the right slightly.
- 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 2457
- Publications:
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, XXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1962), pp. 70-72, no. 2457, with pl. IV.
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. 443-44).
Colin Austin, Nova fragmenta Euripidea in papyris reperta (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968), pp. 88-89.
Revel A. Coles, A new Oxyrhynchus papyrus: the hypothesis of Euripides' Alexandros (London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1974), p. 12.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Die Hypotheseis zu Euripides' ‘Alkestis’ und ‘Aiols’. P. Oxy. 2457’, Philologus, 126 (1982), 10-18.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, LII (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1984), pp. no. 3650.
Marc Huys, ‘Some Reflections on the Controversial Identity of the "presbus" in Euripides' "Trojan Women" (v. 921) and in His "Alexander" (Fr. 43, Col. III, 12)’, L'antiquité classique, 54 (1985), 240-53.
Marc Huys, ‘The Plotting Scene in Euripides' "Alexandros": An Interpretation of Fr. 23, 23A 23B, 43 Sn (cf. Hypothesis, 11. 23-25)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 62 (1986), 9-36.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zur 'Alexandros'-Hypothesis (P. Oxy. 3650)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 63 (1986), 7-10.
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 (p. 11).
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Zwei Kürzungen in der mittelalterlichen "Andromache"-Hypothesis’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 90 (1992), 45-47.
James Diggle, Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta selecta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 80-81.
François Jouan, H. Van Looy, Euripide, Tragedies: Tome VIII (Paris: CUF, 1998), pp. 17-18, 43-45.
Nikolaus Pechstein, Euripides Satyrographos. Ein Kommentar zu den Euripideischen Satyrspielfragmenten (Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998), pp. 56-65.
Monique Van Rossum-Steenbeek, Greek readers' digests? Studies on a selection of subliterary papyri (Leiden-New York: Brill, 1998), pp. 185-88, no. 1.
Richard Kannicht, Bruno Snell, Stefan Radt, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. 1-5 vols. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971-2004). Vol. 5.1 (2004), pp. 158-59, 174-76, no. Ii.
Wolfgang Luppe, ‘Der Anfang der Hypothesis zu Euripides' Αλεξανδρος’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 169 (2009), 15-16.
Chiara Meccariello, Le hypotheseis narrative dei drammi euripidei: testo, contesto, fortuna (Roma: Edizioni di "Storia e letteratura", 2014), p. 124 and passim.
David Kovacs, ‘The first line of Euripides' Alexandros (fr. 41a K.)’, Eikasmos, 26 (2015), 111-15.
Gertjan Verhasselt, ‘The Hypotheses of Euripides and Sophocles by ‘Dicaearchus’’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 55 (2015), 608–36 (pp. 620-21).
Ioanna Karamanou, ‘Textual Notes on Euripides' "Alexandros" (P.Stras. 2343–44, P.Oxy. 3650, col. i)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 202 (2017), 35-47.
Ioanna Karamanou, Euripides, Alexandros: Introduction, Text and Commentary. Texte und Kommentare, 57 (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 60-63.
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. 25 (https://relicta.org/cpp/detail.php?CPP=0025, 12 July 2021).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)