P.Mich.inv. 920 / Verso

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P.Mich.inv. 920

Record Details

Inventory Number: P.Mich.inv. 920
Processing Number: 16312
Section/Side: A+B; Verso
Image Side: Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side: Verso; Recto is unpublished
Connections: 921
Material: Pap
Size: 1: 12.7 x 5.3 cm; 2: 10.8 x 9 cm; 3: 11.7 x 7.5 cm
Items: 3
Lines: 39 lines
Mounted: Yes
Negative: Yes
Conservation Status: Broken off at the left and right sides.
Palaeographic Description: It is written in a regular but hurried book hand. The two pieces of 920 are to be joined at lines 12-14. If two lines are lost in the lacuna between 920 and 921, column height was c. 35 cm. column width is c. 9 cm. Upper and lower margins are c. 3.2 cm. Line beginnings swerve increasingly to the left (Maas' law). There is one correction in l. 38. the omission of a name in l. 7 has not been corrected. There are no punctuations, breathings, accents and other diacritical marks. Iota adscript is written only with omega, omitted with alpha or eta.
Status: published
Library: Ann Arbor

Date: IInd-IIIrd century A.D.
Origin: Unknown
Provenance: Unknown
Acquisition: June 1922; Acquired by Nahman - British Museum;Nos. 918 - 932 Paid for from the appropriation of Regents
Language: Greek
Genre: Literary; mythology
Author: Unknown
Type of Text/Title of Work: Fragment of a Homer-Hypothesis with no gods
Content: The papyrus contains a prose summary of the seventh and eigth books of the Iliad which is unlike extant Homer-hypotheses in manuscripts or on papyri in two respects. First, it quotes not only the first line of each book, as papyrus hypotheses do regularly, but also the last line. Second, the hypothesis omits all mention of gods. Deities play a minor role in these books, so it is conceivable that the hypothesizer could have left them out here, because of their lack of importance to the narrative, but still have included them in his hypotheses of e.g. A, E, and Y. The second of the two manuscript hypotheses to H and TH omits the gods in H but mentions their more prominent role in TH.
Subject Headings: Literature; Hypotheis; Homer
Persons: Hellenes [Greeks]; Achaioi [Achaeans]; Nestor; Agamemnon; Diomedes; Idomeneus; Kretes [Cretans]; Thoas; Eurypylos; Odysseus; Aias Telamon; Eos; Teukros; Troes [Trojans]; Hektor; Aiantes
Geographica: Lemnos

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography: LDAB 1819; Marc Huys -Thomas Schmidt, CATALOGUE OF MYTHOGRAPHIC PAPYRI, in http://cmp.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/cmpdetail.php?id=137

Cataloging

Cataloger: NL
Year Begin: 100
Year End: 299

Technical Details

Collection: Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)
Image Size: 4380 x 7748
File Size: 4 MB
Record: 16312
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-16312/920v.tif

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Portfolios

In public portfolios: Homeric Papyri (128)

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Full citation: "P.Mich.inv. 920; Verso." In the digital collection Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-16312/920v.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.