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TM 61594 / LDAB 2743 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/61594

also known as Mertens-Pack 01298.000; Bodmer Menander Codex; Dyskolos Papyrus

Metadata

Date: second half 4th century AD: AD 350 - 399
cf. Cavallo / Maehler; P. Köln Gr. 8: AD 200 - 299; P. Orsini, Adamantius 21 (2015), p. 64-66: late 4th cent.

Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim) ? - Egypt (9th 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 (paleography: different hands in sloping cursive (cf. P. Orsini))

Material: papyrus

Book form: codex, single quire (32 fol.); columns per page: 1; highest page number: 38; number of lines per page: 45-54

Authors / works: Menander, Samia: 1-146, 149-400, 405-544 with end title (direct attestation)
Menander, Dyscolus: with hypothesis and beginning and end title (direct attestation)
Menander, Aspis: 1-146, 149-400, 405-544 (direct attestation)
Aristophanes of Byzantium, Opus incertum (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature, science — poetry, tragedy + philology, hypothesis (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

More info: Bodmer papyriBodmer papyri => 28 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, Kölner PapyriKölner Papyri => 4348 links in TM, Kölner Papyri [old]Kölner Papyri (old) => 301 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM, PN-APIS (Duke)Advanced Papyrological Information System (now part of PN) => 1786 links in TM

Publications

P. Köln Gr. 8 331 (Gronewald, Michael - 1997)
&P. Bodmer 25 (Bibl. Bodm. 1, p. 267-329) (Kasser, Rodolphe / Austin, Colin - 1969)
&P. Bodmer 26 (Bibl. Bodm. 1, p. 331-375) (Kasser, Rodolphe / Austin, Colin - 1969)
&P. Bodmer 4 (Bibl. Bodm. 1, p. 91-203) (Martin, Victor - 1958) [default]

∙Dedoussi, Menandrou Samia (Akademia Athenon, Bibliotheke Manouse 8) (Dedoussi, Christina - 2006; only Samia)

∙Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) 182 (Austin, Colin - 1973)

∙Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) 124 (Austin, Colin - 1973)

∙Austin, Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta in papyris reperta (CGFP) 108 (Austin, Colin - 1973)

∙P. Köln Gr. 1 3 (Kramer, Bärbel - 1976)

Photo: V. Martin, Papyrus Bodmer IV; P.Köln 8 pl. II; G. Cavallo - H.Maehler, Greek Bookhands, pl. 5b; R.Seider, Paläogr. griech. Papyri II.2, pl. XXVI.51; C. Dedoussi, Menandrou Samia, pl.; G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri, 208, p. 113 [88]; C. Méla - F. Möri, Alexandrie la divine (2014), I fig. 67, p. 331; II p. 1055; P. Orsini, Adamantius 21 (2015), p. 72-73; M. Bernasconi Reusser e.a., Die schönsten Seiten der Schweiz (2020), p.194; L. Del Corso, Il libro nel mondo antico (2022), p. 256

Content studies: M. Van Rossum-Steenbeek, Greek Readers' Digests?, p. 243-244, no.27; McNamee, Annotations (ASP 45, 2007), p. 299 no. 1298a-c

Script & book studies: date according to Cavallo-Maehler; but see Nongbri, Mus. Helv. 71 (2014), p. 24; P. Orsini, Adamantius 21 (2015), p. 64-65

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