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TM 60002 / LDAB 1116 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/60002

also known as Mertens-Pack 00461.110; Mertens-Pack 01756.000; Tattoo Elegy; Tattoo Poem

Metadata

Date: 2nd century BC: BC 199 - 100

Provenance: Ankyropolis (El-Hiba) ? - Egypt (20th Upper 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

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 24

Content (beta!): elegy

Authors / works: Hermesianax of Colophon, Opus incertum (?): Elegy: " tattoo poem" (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — poetry, lyric, elegy (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro, back: Vo: traces of a document

Note: reused as cartonnage

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM [2], Sorbonne papyriInstitut de Papyrologie. Les Collections de Papyrus => 123 links in TM

Publications

P. Brux. Gr. 2 22 (Huys, Marc - 1991) [default]

∙Lightfoot, Hellenistic collection (Loeb 508) p. 181-185 (Lightfoot, Jane L. - 2009)

∙Lloyd-Jones, Supplementum Supplementi hellenistici 970 (Lloyd-Jones, Hugh - 2005)

∙Supplementum hellenisticum 970 (Lloyd-Jones, Hugh / Parsons, Peter J. - 1983)

∙Recherches de papyrologie 2 (1962), p. 99-111 (Papathomopoulos, Manolis - 1962)

Photo: Rech. Pap. 2, pl. viii; P.Brux. 2 pl.; Cavallo-Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands, 2008, no. 32; Scripta. An international journal of codicology and palaeography 2 (2009), p. 146

Content studies: J.M. Bremer - M. Huys, ZPE 92 (1992), p. 118-120; S.R. Slings, ZPE 98 (1993), p. 29-37; H. Lloyd-Jones, ZPE 101 (1994), p. 4-7; R. Rawles, Class. Quart. 56 (2006), p. 486-495; H. Bernsdorff, Mnemosyne 61 (2008), p. 45-65 (with full bibliography);G.Benedetto, P. Cavallo, p. 430-435

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Collections

→ Brussels, Musées Royaux E 8934
+→ Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie 2254

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