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Trismegistos 63276 = LDAB 4482 = michigan.apis.1186
Catalog Record: michigan.apis.1186 [xml]
| Title | A fragment of lyric poetry |
|---|---|
| Author | unknown |
| Summary | The amount of text which is preserved, especially after l. 5, is distressingly meager, and the content of the fragment cannot established in detail. The action does come into focus for a moment in lines 3-5: Dionysus is addressing his Bacchantes. In lines 6-7 we see Pan with his reed-pipe in the retinue of Dionysus. In line 10, if the reading proposed is sound, the Bacchantes may be expressing with prostaxon their submission to the god's will. The followers of Bacchus are named Lenaiai, which makrs the fragment as a piece of late composition. |
| Citations | Youtie HC, TAPA 81, 111-3, 1950 H C Youtie, Scriptiunculae I, 225-227, 1973 |
| Inv. Id | O.Skeat 13 |
| Support/Dimensions | 1 ostracon ; 10 x 26.4 cm. |
| Condition | This brown/red ostracon is broken at the top, and a considerable portion of the text is lost on the left side. |
| Lines | 1-11 |
| Recto/Verso | Source of description: Recto |
| Hands | The text is written in a characteristic hand; the first and second centuries present the full range of possibility for dating it. A blank space of about 6 cm. stands at the end of the last line, and a margin of about 1.5 cm. below it. |
| Origin | Thebes, the Thebaid, Upper Egypt, province of Egypt (?) |
| Language | Greek |
| Date | (late) Ist/(early) IInd century A.D. |
| Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
| Note (general) | Pub. status: Recto; Verso is almost black and contains no writing |
| Note (related) | - |
| Subjects | -; Literary; Ostracon |
| 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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