Trismegistos 60344 = LDAB 1465 = michigan.apis.2047
Catalog Record: michigan.apis.2047 [xml]
| Title | Homeric papyrus ( Odyssey 21.168-176) |
|---|---|
| Author | Homer |
| Summary | Homer, Odyssey 21.168-176. The text is fully vulgate with the exception of the substitution of (apparently) a present or aorist active participle for the substantive "mnesteres" in 174, corrected by M. 2;173: "oiston": the dot over iota is intended as a diaeresis mark.;174: 'mnesteres a]gauoi' tacha therapo]ntes aga[uoi: what M. 1 actually wrote is not recoverable. It may have been either the presentactive participle of "mnesteuw, mnesteuontes", which mdoes not occur in Homer, or the aorist active participle, "mnesteusantes", which occurs only at Od. 4.684. Either of these would give a meaning reasonably close to that of the vulgate text (m. 2's correction supra is apparently vulagte); but each would corrupt the meter. At Il. 19.281, we read "therapontes agauoi" in the same position as "mnesteres agauoi" here. It is possible then that m. 1 wrote the phrase from Iliad as a reminiscent variant; the phrase has at least the advantage of fitting the meter. |
| Citations | Traianos Gagos, Nikos Litinas, Nancy E. Priest, BASP 41, 2004, 75 Priest NE, Homeric Papyri in the Michigan Collection (Diss.), 190-192, no 38, 1975 |
| Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 37 |
| Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 6.2 x 4.7 cm |
| Condition | A few letters from the end of nine lines of Book 21 of Odyssey. No margins. The text is written on the recto of light-colored papyrus in black ink. |
| Lines | 9 lines |
| Recto/Verso | Source of description: Recto |
| Hands | Letter height averages 3 mm. Two hands are discernible in the text. M. 1 which wrote the body of the text is a large, upright uncial, rather square and on line. M. 2 wrote the correction supra 174; it is more cursive, smaller (c. 2 mm.), and quicker than m. 1. Both hands may be dated to the late first or early second century |
| Origin | Unknown |
| Language | Greek |
| Date | (late) Ist / (early) IInd century A.D. |
| Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
| Note (general) | Pub. status: Recto; Verso is blank |
| Subjects | Homer--Odyssey--21.; Literary; Epic; Papyrus |
| 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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