P.Mich.inv. 4649

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Record Details

Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 4649

Processing Number

2247

Section/Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Verso; Recto is P.Mich. VII, 447

Connections

+ P.Lond. Inv. 2723 verso (P.Lond.Lit. 184)

Material

Pap

Size

9.5 x 21 cm (P.Mich.inv. 4649 only)

Items

1

Lines

22

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

broken off on the left and right sides and at the bottom; much damaged

Palaeographic Description

very good rustic capitals (Dunlap); rustic capital of an ancient time (Lowe); regular, practised capital (Wouters)

Status

published

Library

Cairo

Contents

Date

(Late) IInd century/(early) IIIrd century A.D.

Origin

Unknown place

Provenance

Karanis, Herakleidou meris, Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt

Acquisition

25-5075-A

Language

Latin

Genre

Literary: grammatical

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Treatise on Latin Grammar (Ars Grammatica)

Content

Fragments of a treatise on Latin Grammar, concerning the diphtongs and the different parts of speech

Subject Headings

Latin--Grammar.

Latin--Orthography and spelling.

Persons

-

Geographica

-

Translation

(P.Mich.inv. 4649 verso)

. . . ; if, say, you place a X <read: an U> before the letter I, it makes [(the diphtong) UI, just] as, by Hercules!, an U [and an A] make (the diphtong) UA; in a similar way, if you join the vowels A and U, it makes AU; likewise, an A and an E make [(the diphtong) AI], for it is obvious that this syllable should not be written A and E, for many reasons, of which the first and most important is that the Greeks, from whom we have received the use of the letters, write this syllable with A and I; then, the greatest poets make it up with an A and an I, for the reason that they [divide] this one syllable into two by metaplasmus, [as Vergil], who says, for "dives pictae", ["dives pictai] vestis et auri" . . .

(P.Lond. Inv. 2723 verso, col. I)

. . . is therefore so defined, in the same way that one would say that the word (dictio) is a sound (vox) having the form of significant sounds; for a sound of that kind can be said, but cannot be understood; accordingly, the word that has a signification and an intelligibility is speech (oratio). Speech, then, is . . . like the reason of the mouth (oris ratio); certain grammarians have multiplied its parts to such an extent that the mass of the teachers [- - -]

(col. II)

[- - - The parts of the speech are:] the noun, the pronoun, the verb, the participle, the adverb, the conjunction, the preposition, the interjection. The noun is, so to speak, a distinctive sign by which we recognize every individual thing by designating it with a mark; it is like a sign of a certain thing, for, when I say anything, even if you don't find the object of this word present, nevertheless, as the sign of the word is heard, immediately an image of the thing cleaves to the mind . . . [- - -]

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.2246

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
AJP 61	Dunlap JE	1940	330-344	Plate (P.Mich.inv. 4649 verso only)	Dunlap JE, AJP 61, 330-344, 1940, Plate (P.Mich.inv. 4649 verso only)
P.Mich. VII	Dunlap JE	1947	429	pl. IIa	Dunlap JE, P.Mich. VII, 429, 1947, pl. IIa

Information on Publications--Further Republications

Further Republications

Rep Editor - Cavenaile R; Rep Ser. - C.P.L.; 1957; No. 56-57;

Rep Editor - Pennisi G; Rep Ser. - Helikon 1; 1961; pg. 503-511;

Rep Editor - Bruckner A-Marichal R; Rep Ser. - Ch.L.A. III; 1973; No. 218, with plates;

Rep Editor - Wouters A; Rep Ser. - The Grammatical Papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt; 1979; No. 3

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography before the first publication of the Michigan fragment in 1940: P.Lond.Lit. 184 with pl. XI; A. Koerte, Archiv 10 (1932) p. 237, No. 788; E.A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores II (Oxford, 1935) p. 27, No. 212, with plate (lower part of P.Lond. Inv. 2723 verso); J. Collart, Rev.Phil. 3, 12 (1938) p. 228-238; J.E. Dunlap, TAPA 69 (1938) p. xxxiv-xxxv; J. Mallon - R. Marichal - C. Perrat, L'écriture latine de la capitale romaine à la minuscule (Paris, 1939) No. 39 with pl. XXVIII.

P. Collart, Rev.Phil. 3, 15 (1941) p. 119, No. 61; A. Calderini, Papiri latini (Milano, 1945) p. 10; E.G. Turner, CR 62 (1948) 146; R. Marichal, Scriptorium 4 (1950) p. 136, No. 292; A. Mazzarino, Grammaticae romanae fragmenta aetatis Caesareae I (Torino, 1955) p. 76; S. Bassi, Monumenti Italiae Graphica (Cremona, 1956-1957) No. 115, with pl. XLI; R. Merkelbach, Archiv 16 (1958) p. 129, No. 1155; Pack[2] 2996; E.A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores XI (Oxford, 1966) p. 19, No. 212, with plate (P.Mich.inv. 4649 verso); P. Swiggers, Aegyptus 64 (1984) p. 31-34.

Cataloging

Cataloger

PH

Year Begin

100

Year End

224

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Record

2247

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2247/1 content_copy