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TM 59936 / LDAB 1048 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/59936 Copy URI to clipboard

also known as P. Firmin-Didot; P. Didot; Mertens-Pack 00031.000; Mertens-Pack 00401.000; Mertens-Pack 01319.000; Mertens-Pack 01320.000; Mertens-Pack 01435.000; PFirmin-Didot; PDidot

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Date: BC 170 - 160?
cf. G. Cavallo, Pap. Flor. 36 (2005), p. 118

Provenance: Memphis, Saqqara, Serapeum - Egypt (1st Lower Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Egypt - Egypt (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: roll

Content (beta!): school text? verse anthology with comedy, tragedy and epigrams (pharos, temple of Arsinoe)

Authors / works: Euripides, Medea: 5-12 (direct attestation)
Aeschylus, Kares vel Europa (direct attestation)
Posidippus Pellaeus, Epigrammata: epigram on the Pharos at Alexandria and the temple of Arsinoe-Aphrodite (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — anthology, poetry, comedy + tragedy + lyric, epigram (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: opisthograph

Reuse type: blank space reused by: TM 3447

Note: school text?

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM [2][3][4][5]

Publications

Weil, Un papyrus inédit p. 1-34 (Weil, Henri - 1879) [default]

∙Aegyptus 97 (2017), p. 3-39 [col. 1-3] (Stama, Felice - 2017; only col. 1-3 (Mulieris oratio))

∙Pordomingo, Antologias di época hellenistica en papiro (Pap. Flor. 43) 38 (p. 258-276) (Pordomingo, Francisca - 2013)

∙Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta (TrGF) 5.2 953 (p. 940) (Kannicht, Richard - 2004)

∙Arnott, Menander 3 p. 473-479 (fabula incerta 2), p. 414-415 descr. (Arnott, W. Geoffrey - 2000)

∙Kassel / Austin, Poetae comici Graeci (PCG) 8 1000 - 1001 (Kassel, Rudolf / Austin, Colin - 1995)

∙Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) 287 - 288 descr. (Austin, Colin - 1973)

∙Gow / Page, Hellenistic epigrams I s.v. Posidippus 12 (l. 3110-3119) (Gow, A. S. F. / Page, Denys Lionel - 1965)

∙Sel. Pap. 3 104 (Page, Denys Lionel - 1941) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Carrara, Il testo di Euripide nell'antichità 402 (p. 196-203) (Carrara, Paolo - 2009) (= catalogue only)

∙Analecta Papyrologica 8 - 9 (1996-97), p. 102 [P1] descr. (Ponzio, A. - 1996-1997) (= catalogue only)

∙Cribiore, Writing, teachers, and students 244 descr. (Cribiore, Raffaella - 1996) (= catalogue only)

Photo: ed. princ. (Weil); Turner-Parsons, Greek Manuscripts no.45; La gloire d'Alexandrie, Paris 1998, p.101; Cavallo-Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands, 2008, no. 44; B. Legras, Les reclus grecs du Sarapeion, Stud. Hell. 49, 2011, p. 299; C. Méla - F. Möri, Alexandrie la divine II (2014), fig. 102, p. 557 and 1075

Content studies: F. Pordomingo, in: L. del Corso - O. Pecere, Libri di scuola e pratiche didattiche, Convegno Cassino, 2010, p. 57-68 (with full bibliography); B. Wickkiser, GRBS 50 (2010), p. 159-173 [on ll. 2-15]; B. Legras, Les reclus grecs du Sarapeion, Stud. Hell. 49, 2011, p. 193-214

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