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TM 59943 / LDAB 1055 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/59943

also known as Mertens-Pack 01574.000

Metadata

Date: mid 2nd - mid 1st century BC: BC 150 - 50

Provenance: Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), bought - Egypt (EgyptThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Arsinoites (Fayum) ? - Egypt (00The region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek (paleography: formal round)

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: roll

Content (beta!): school text (?); gnomic anthology: selections on Tyche, in verse and prose

Authors / works: Euripides, Opus incertum (direct attestation)
Menander, Opus incertum (?) (direct attestation)
Theophrastus, Opus incertum (?) (direct attestation)
Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Opus incertum (?) (direct attestation)
Demosthenes, De corona: 252 (epitomized)

Culture & genre: literature — anthology, poetry, tragedy, prose, wisdom (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: Vo: partially reused

Note: school text (?)

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

Publications

Classical Quarterly 44 (1950), p. 126-163 (Barns, John W. B. - 1950) [default]

∙Sardone, I papiri del de Corona di Demosthene 31 (Sardone, Lorenzo - 2021; quotation of Demosthenes)

∙Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 2.3 p. 147-164 [Gnom. 22] (Funghi, Maria Serena / Martinelli, Maria Chiara - 2017)

∙Pordomingo, Antologias di época hellenistica en papiro (Pap. Flor. 43) 18 (p. 139-144) (Pordomingo, Francisca - 2013)

∙Pernigotti, Menandri Sententiae p. 49 (P. E.E.S.) (Pernigotti, Carlo - 2008)

∙Jaekel, Menandri Sententiae (BSGRT) p. 21-23 no. 18 (Jaekel, Siegfried - 1964)

Photo: M.S.Funghi, Aspetti di letteratura gnomica nel mondo antico. II (Firenze, 2004), p. 365

Content studies: McNamee, Annotations (ASP 45, 2007), p. 451 no. 1574; F. Pordomingo, in: L. del Corso - O. Pecere, Libri di scuola e pratiche didattiche, Convegno Cassino, 2010, p. 56 (not a school text); M.C. Martinelli, Incontri triestini di Filologia classica 9 (2009-2010) pp. 245-255. < http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/handle/10077/4184 >

Script & book studies: G. Messeri in: M. S. Funghi, Aspetti di letteratura gnomica nel mondo antico. II (Firenze, 2004) p. 353-356

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Collections

→ Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms EES Cupb. 2

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    TM 59943

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