P.Mich.inv. 1447 / Verso

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Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 1447

Processing Number

2937

Section/Side

Verso

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Verso; Recto is unpublished

Material

Pap

Size

fr. 1: 16.5 x 18 cm; fr. 2: 2.2 x 6.2 cm; fr. 3: 2.4 x 2.4 cm; fr. 4: 1.3 x 2 cm

Items

4

Lines

col. I: 22 lines; col. II:21 lines

Mounted

Yes

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

The ends of 22 lines from one column and the greater part of 21 lines from a second column. Both columns are incomplete above. Full of creases and fiber dislocations. The surface, usually a medium brown, has been darkened by discoloration in several areas, and much of the text is peppered with holes. The unusual straightness of the top edge of the fragmentmay have resulted from a cut in antiquity. Three small scraps, designated Fr. 2, 3 and 4, have become detached from the main piece but can be replaced in their respective original locations at the top left of col. I and at the right of col. II.

Palaeographic Description

Handwriting: rounded informal capital by a practised scribe. Some variations of stance, shape and proportion of letters occur. The lower margin is preserved to its original depth, 4.3-5.4 cm, for most of the width of the papyrus. There is an intercolumnar space of around 1.8 cm at the top of the text; but as a result of the scribe's tendency in col. I to end his lines successively further to the right, this space is steadily reduced until it dwindles to almost nothing near the lower margin. But the edge itself of col. I is even. The left edge of col. II is also straight but is almost exactly perpendicular as well. The entries are separated from one another by spaces about the height of one line of writing. Critical signs: forked paragraphos. Punctuation: a low stop (II, 6); two tremata (diaeresis). No accents and one breathing. Several misspellings and errors, some corrected; iota adscript consistently written.

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

(late) IInd century A.D. / IIIrd century A.D.

Origin

Unknown

Provenance

Unknown

Acquisition

November 1924

Language

Greek

Genre

Literary; mythology

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Dictionary of metamorphosed characters from myth

Content

A mythological dictionary. The five nearly complete entries in Column II all concern metamorphosed characters in Greek myth whose names begin with "alpha", but they are not ordered according to any stricter rules of alphabetization. Two of these entries cite the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, the Ethoiae, as their authorities. A Third cites simply "Hesiod", and a fourth entry refers to an unknown passage of Aeschylus.

The scanty remains of col. I apparently represent three entries having eight, eleven and three lines respectively preserved.

Subject Headings

Mythology, Greek|vDictionaries.

Hesiod.

Aeschylus.

Persons

Hesiod; Aeschylus; Aktaion, Arethousa, Aithyiae, Alkyone, Askalaphus

Aristaios; Autonoe; Semele; Artemis; Hyperos; Poseidon; Euripos; Chalkis; Hera; Haliakmon; Haliartos; Ino; Aiolos; Keyx; Phosphoros; Zeus; Achairon; Gorgyra; Demeter; Kore; Plouto

Translation

Col. I: fragmentary

Col. II:

Actaeon, the son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, desiring marriage with Semele . . . his mother's father . . . (he) was transformed to the appearance of a stag through the design of Artemis and was torn apart by his own dogs, as Hesiod says in the Catalogue of Women.

Arethousa, daughter of Hyperos, [having had intercourse with Poseidon?] in the region of the Euboen Euripus, was transformed [to a sping?] by Hera, as Hesiod recounts.

The Aithyiae, daughters of Haliakmon, the son of Haliartos, seven in number, while lamenting Ino were transformed by Hera to [birds] . . . are called by Aeschylus "hating Crows" (?).

Alkyone, daughter of Aiolos: Keyx, son of Phosphoros the star, married (her). And both . . were arrogant, and enamored of one another . . . (she?) called [him] Zeus, herself Hera . . . On which account Zeus angered, transformed both into birds, as Hesiod (says) in the Catalogue of Women.

Askalaphos, son of Achairon and Gorgyra, when Demeter had found the Maiden . . . to(?) Plouto . . .

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3407

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
Diss	Renner TT	1974	1-48, no 1		Renner TT, Diss, 1-48, no 1, 1974
HSCP 82	Renner TT	1978	277-293	Plate, between pp. 278-279	Renner TT, HSCP 82, 277-293, 1978, Plate, between pp. 278-279

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

Marcotte-Mertens-Pack add. 0516.2

M. Van Rossum-Steenbeek, Greek Readers' Digests?, p. 144-145, 335-336, no.70

H. Lloyd-Jones, ZPE 35 (1979), p. 6

M.L. West - R. Merkelbach, Hesiodi fragmenta selecta, 1990, p. 232, fr. 217A

J. Lightfoot, Parthenius of Nicaea, 1999, 227, n55

Marc Huys - Thomas Schmidt, CATALOGUE OF MYTHOGRAPHIC PAPYRI , http://cmp.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/cmpdetail.php?id=141

LDAB 1219

Cataloging

Cataloger

NL

Year Begin

150

Year End

299

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

5100 x 4741

File Size

3 MB

Record

2937

Link to this Item

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