Homeric papyrus (Odyssey 22.117-121, 131-138, 230--317 and 23.185-194, 230-242, 269-273) |
Homer |
Homer, Odyssey 22.117-121, 131-138, 230--317 and 23.185-194, 230-242, 269-273 |
Grenfell BP-Hunt AS, POxy III, 448, 1903 -- Three new fragments are identified and
added in the ed. princ. described in "Conserv. status";;;Fr. 7 preserves 3 lines which
read: l. 2: "lo" and l3: "ed" but their identification is not made. (NL;forthcoming)
-- Traianos Gagos, Nikos Litinas, Nancy E. Priest, BASP 41, 2004, 52-54 |
P.Oxy.:3:448 |
P.Corn. Inv. MSS. A 101. I |
12 papyri ; Fr. 1: 2.6 x 2.6 cm; Fr. 2: 4.1 x 2.1 cm: Fr. 3: 29.6 x 23.3 cm; Fr. 4:
8 x 4.3 cm; Fr. 5: 8.9 x 5.6 cm; Fr. 6: 4.3 x 3.6 cm; Fr. 7: 2 x 1 cm. Five more smaller
fragments with traces of ink or blank |
P.Oxy. III 448, Cols. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) are housed in Princeton; the
rest are in the Cornell collection, currently housed at the University of Michigan,
as following:;col. iii: Fr. 1 and 2, both come from the bottom half at the right.
Col. iii is housed in Princeton. These two fragments were found in an separate envelope
and then identified. Their transcription was not in the ed. princ. Col. vi and vii
are preserved in the fr. 3, which was formed by joining four separate previoulsy fragments.
The left bottom half of col. vi and the right part of col. vii is broken off and many
holes all over it. The upper part ol. xviii is preserved in fr. 4 and the upper part
of col. xviii in fr. 5. the bottom left corner of col. xviii is preserved in fr. 6.
This fragment was in the same envelope and was not transcribed in ed. princ., as well.
Fragments 7-12 preserve some traces of letters or are blank. |
Fr. 1: col. iii, Od. 22. 117-121; Fr. 2: col. iii, Od. 22, 131-138; Fr. 3: col. vi,
Od. 22, 230-273; col. vii 274-317; Fr. 4: col. xvii, Od. 23.185-194; Fr. 5: col. xviii,
Od. 230-242; Fr. 6: col. xviii, Od. 23, 269-273;[the numbers refer to the verses of
the literary work "Odyssey 22" |
Source of description: Verso |
The hand is upright and rather large. Marks of elision have been written by the original
scribe. Accents, breathings (usually acute-angled) and high stops have been added
by a second hand, which has also introduced some corrections into the text. The system
of accentuation is similar to that found in P.Oxy. 223. On the verso of an illegible
literary prose text |
Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt
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Greek |
IIIrd century A.D.
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Location: Ann Arbor |
Pub. status: Verso; Recto is unpublished (an illegible literary prose text) |
Homer.--Odyssey.;--Book 22-23.; Literary; epic; Papyrus |
Recto medium |
Recto large |
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