Trismegistos 64323 = LDAB 5544 = michigan.apis.2115
Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2115 [xml]
| Title | prose? |
|---|---|
| Author | unknown |
| Summary | This papyrus contains portions of two columns of a text which mentions among other things a love affair, events connected with a spring, and devouring by beasts. The goddess Aphrodite is mentioned early in the fragment, and two names of mortal persons, Pamphilos and Eurydike, can be read with certainty. The greater part of what survives is apparently narrative in the third person, but instances of the first person and of direct adress occur. |
| Citations | Stramaglia A., ZPE 134 (2001), 81-106. Renner TT, Proc XVI Int Congr, 93-101, 1981, Photo -- Stramaglia, p. 81 (on date). Martinez MP, Fragmentos papiraceos de novela griega, 45, 1998 |
| Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 3793 |
| Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 12.5 x 11.5 cm. |
| Condition | This medium brown papyrus is regularly cut off on all sides except at the top, where the right and the left hand corners have been cut off. |
| Lines | 1-27 |
| Recto/Verso | Source of description: Recto |
| Hands | The hand, although the work of a practised writer, shows a unique blend of characteristics, including both cursive and noncursive elements, which are topped with a hint of somewhat pretentious mannerism. It is consequently difficult to find close palaeographical parallels, but taken as a whole the writing suggests a date in the third or perhaps the early fourth century A.D. The writer did not concern himself with keeping the line ends in Column I even; they vary in alignment by as much as eight letter-widths and rarely, possibly never, fall within a word. There are no accents, punctuation marks, or other aids to the reader. The orthography appears to be free of major faults. Some letters in a thinner ink were evidently written in the margin before line II 1. There is no certain clue as to the original width of the columns, or the number of lines lost between I14 and II1. |
| Origin | Oxyrhynchos, Oxyrhynchite nome, Middle Egypt, province of Egypt |
| Language | Greek |
| Date | Ist century B.C. |
| Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
| Note (general) | Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank |
| Note (related) | - |
| Subjects | -; Literary; Papyrus |
| Associated Names | Aphrodite; Pamphilos; Eurydike |
| Images | Recto thumbnail |
| Images | Recto medium |
| Images | Recto large |
| License |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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