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Epithalamium (Greek P 17)
A small complete sheet of papyrus containing a poem of six hexameter lines addressed to a newly wedded couple.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Classmark: Greek P 17
- Alternative Identifier(s): 64457; P. Ryl. Gr. 1 17; Mertens-Pack 01829.000
- Title: Epithalamium
- Language(s): Greek
- Subject(s): Classical literature
- Origin Place: Hermopolis (modern El-Ashmunein), Egypt
- Date of Creation: circa 397 CE
- Format: Sheet
- Material(s): Papyrus
- Extent: 1 sheet. Leaf height: 103 mm, width: 151 mm.
- Medium: Ink
- Technique(s): Handwriting
- Layout:
1 column, 6 written lines
The verso is blank.
- Script:The verses are written across the fibres in an irregular semi-uncial hand of medium size.
- Decoration:
Below the last line is drawn an interlacing border.
- Origin: Written and found at Hermopolis (modern El-Ashmunein), Egypt, probably circa 397 CE.
- Provenance:
The papyrus was bought together with several cursive documents from Eshmunen (Hermopolis), some of which are dated in the year 397 CE, and is not likely to be very far removed from them in date.
Like most of the papyri in the John Rylands Library, the precise provenance of this item is uncertain. The majority of the papyri catalogued in 1911 were acquired in Egypt, on the antiquities market and through excavation, by Arthur S. Hunt (1871-1934) and Bernard P. Grenfell (1869-1926). Grenfell and Hunt acquired the papyri in the late 1890s for James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford, and then after her purchase of Crawford’s manuscript collection in 1901 for Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908). Crawford had made some purchases of papyri on the antiquities market in Cairo in the 1890s, but these apparently included no literary papyri, so were probably not among those catalogued in 1911. As Hunt notes in the preface to the catalogue: "Wherever the provenance seemed sufficiently assured this is specified; when no locality is named, it is to be inferred that satisfactory testimony was not forthcoming.". - Acquisition: In 1908, Enriqueta Rylands bequeathed her manuscripts, including those acquired from Crawford in 1901, to the John Rylands Libary.
- Date of Acquisition: 1908
- Data Source(s): Description based on Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911).
- Author(s) of the Record: Carly Richardson, Elizabeth Gow
- Bibliography:Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.Ernst Heitsch, Die Griechischen Dichterfragmente der romischen Kaiserzeit, p.85, No. XXV (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1963).
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Classmark: Greek P 17
- Alternative Identifier(s): 64457; P. Ryl. Gr. 1 17; Mertens-Pack 01829.000
- Title: Epithalamium
- Language(s): Greek
- Subject(s): Classical literature
- Origin Place: Hermopolis (modern El-Ashmunein), Egypt
- Date of Creation: circa 397 CE
- Format: Sheet
- Material(s): Papyrus
- Extent: 1 sheet. Leaf height: 103 mm, width: 151 mm.
- Medium: Ink
- Technique(s): Handwriting
- Layout:
1 column, 6 written lines
The verso is blank.
- Script:The verses are written across the fibres in an irregular semi-uncial hand of medium size.
- Decoration:
Below the last line is drawn an interlacing border.
- Origin: Written and found at Hermopolis (modern El-Ashmunein), Egypt, probably circa 397 CE.
- Provenance:
The papyrus was bought together with several cursive documents from Eshmunen (Hermopolis), some of which are dated in the year 397 CE, and is not likely to be very far removed from them in date.
Like most of the papyri in the John Rylands Library, the precise provenance of this item is uncertain. The majority of the papyri catalogued in 1911 were acquired in Egypt, on the antiquities market and through excavation, by Arthur S. Hunt (1871-1934) and Bernard P. Grenfell (1869-1926). Grenfell and Hunt acquired the papyri in the late 1890s for James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford, and then after her purchase of Crawford’s manuscript collection in 1901 for Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908). Crawford had made some purchases of papyri on the antiquities market in Cairo in the 1890s, but these apparently included no literary papyri, so were probably not among those catalogued in 1911. As Hunt notes in the preface to the catalogue: "Wherever the provenance seemed sufficiently assured this is specified; when no locality is named, it is to be inferred that satisfactory testimony was not forthcoming.". - Acquisition: In 1908, Enriqueta Rylands bequeathed her manuscripts, including those acquired from Crawford in 1901, to the John Rylands Libary.
- Date of Acquisition: 1908
- Data Source(s): Description based on Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911).
- Author(s) of the Record: Carly Richardson, Elizabeth Gow
- Bibliography:Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.Ernst Heitsch, Die Griechischen Dichterfragmente der romischen Kaiserzeit, p.85, No. XXV (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1963).
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