Ancient Literacies

noticed, so far as I know, and what is particularly interesting about the lists in table 10.1, is that these inventories allow u ...

collector, then, possessed a small library of a hundred volumes or so, which he organized in three groups: poets (standard: Home ...

In no. 6, we have an interesting variation on the genre/author organ- ization: the basic distinction seems to be between prose, ...

volumes present in a given collection. In several cases we see the specific contents, which can vary from collections of basic c ...

and we thus should not ordinarily draw conclusions based on the absence of, say, a given author in a given concentration. There ...

Table 10.2.Concentrations of Papyri Found Together in Egypt and at Herculaneum No. Name or Publication Dates of Mss. and Provena ...

datable to the first century and so at least two hundred years old. 47 In no. 7 (Grenfell and Hunt’s second find), which was dis ...

trations nos. 3, 4, 5, and 7 were written in the second century and discarded in or around the end of the third century. Althoug ...

Table 10.3.Grenfell and Hunt’s ‘‘Second Great Find’’ of Literary Papyri Catalogue and MP^3 Numbers Date (allA.D. un less noted) ...

16 .MP^31237 c. 130B.C.^3 Ibycus Later hand (first A.D.?) added dia criticals. Exegetic note cites [...] imachus. 17 .MP^313634 ...

Table 10.3. (Continued) Catalogue and MP^3 Numbers Date (allA.D. unless noted) Contents Comments Scribe, if Known 28 .MP^3 1495 ...

I list the papyri that can be assigned to that find, arranged alphabetically, withadespota(works of which the author is not know ...

scribe B1 (nos. 25, 26).^56 Work of at least four of these scribes is known from other archaeological contexts as well,^57 indic ...

more than a century.^61 For our purposes, this library is important above all because it shows that a coherent collection could ...

two of Callimachus (nos. 8, 9), plus single rolls (so far as we know) of Cercidas, Hesiod, and Ibycus (nos. 10, 15, and 16). Pin ...

estimates that only some 5 percent of all literary manuscripts have sig- nificant marginal notes.^70 Of the Alcaeus papyri liste ...

to exist as a coherent and identifiable collection? We cannot answer these questions with any certainty, for there are too many ...

after that the fragments we now have were discarded. A history of this sort, which is suggested by the manuscripts we have, woul ...

APPENDIX: EVIDENCE FOR THE COMPOSITION OF GRENFELL AND HUNT’S ‘‘SECOND GREAT FIND’’ OF LITERARY PAPYRI I provide here references ...

8 .MP^3216 P. Oxy. 1362 Callimachus,Aitia P.Oxy. XI preface: ‘‘the lyric pieces.’’ Grenfell and Hunt seem to include this among ...