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TM 65795 / LDAB 7049 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/65795

also known as Derveni Papyrus; P. Derveni; Mertens-Pack 02465.100; PDerveni

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Metadata

Date: BC 360 - 320

Provenance: Derveni - Greece (MacedoniaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - MacedoniaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Macedonia - Greece (MacedoniaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - MacedoniaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek

Material: papyrus

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: [30]

Content (beta!): literary text, Diagoras of Melos?: Orphic theogony, commentary

Authors / works: Prodicus of Keos, Opus incertum (?) (direct attestation)
Homerus, Ilias: 24.527-24.528This link will bring you to Perseus, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (quoted)
Heraclitus of Ephesus, Opus incertum (quoted)

Culture & genre: literature, science — poetry, epic + mythology, commentary (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro

More info: CPPCorpus of Paraliterary Papyri => 551 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Most (ed.), Studies on the Derveni papyrus 2 p. 3-148 (Janko, Richard / Piano, Valeria - 2022; col. 38-47)
&Kouremenos e.a., The Derveni papyrus (Studi e testi per il Corpus dei papiri filosofici 13) (Kouremenos, Theokritos / Parássoglou, George M. / Kyriakos, Tsantsanoglou - 2006) [default]

∙Kotwick, Der Papyrus von Derveni (Kotwick, Mirjam E. - 2017)

∙Laks / Most, Early Greek philosophy 6 (Loeb) p. 373-435 (Laks, André / Most, Glenn W. - 2016)

∙Bernabé, Poetae epici Graeci II.3 Appendix, p. 169-269 (Bernabé Pajares, Alberto - 2007)

∙ZPE 141 (2002), p. 1-62 (Janko, Richard - 2002) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Betegh, The Derveni papyrus p. 4-55 (Betegh, Gábor - 2004)

∙Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 3 p. 565-585 (Funghi, Maria Serena - 1995)

∙ZPE 71 (1988), p. 25-31 (Böhme, Robert - 1988) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙ZPE 47 (1982), in fine, p. 1-12 (Anonymus - 1982) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Archaiologikon deltion 19 (1964), p. 17-25 (Kapsomenos, Stylianos G. - 1964)

∙Gnomon 35 (1963), p. 222-223 (Kapsomenos, Stylianos G. - 1963)

∙Catalogue of Paraliterary Papyri 235 (online) (= catalogue only)

∙Allen / Sutton / West, Ilias w38 (Allen, Thomas W. / Sutton, D. H. / West, Martin Litchfield - 2001) (= catalogue only)

Photo: Archaiologikon Deltion 19 (1964), pl.12-15; Turner-Parsons, Greek Manuscripts no.51; R.Seider, Paläogr. griech. Papyri II.2, pl.I; Kouremenos e.a., The Derveni Papyrus, pl. 1-30; E.Crisci, Scrivere greco fuori d'Egitto, Pap. Flor. 27, pl.I; B.Legras, Lire en Egypte d'Alexandre à l'Islam, 2002, p. 52; CPF IV.2, pl.70; Scrittura e Civiltà 23 (1999), pl. 1; Cavallo-Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands, 2008, no. 1; V. Piano and F. Ferrari, Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di Studi 6, Florence 2011, pl. 1-16; Most, Studies on the Derveni papyrus, pl. 1-10

Script & book studies: V. Piano and F. Ferrari, Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di Studi 6, Florence 2011, p. 5-54, with pl. 1-16

Collections

→ Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum (P. Derveni)

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