Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 211
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 211 (P. Oxy. 211 or P. Oxy. II 211) is a fragment of the Perikeiromene (976–1008) of Menander, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first or second century. Currently it is housed in the Houghton Library (3734) of Harvard University.[http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.2&d=HASH66d3681e4cf50ca692ae08 P. Oxy. 211] at the Oxyrhynchus Online
Description
The document was written by an unknown copyist. The measurements of the fragment are 334 by 132 mm. It contains a fragment of a lost comedy: the conclusion of Menander's Perikeiromene (The Girl with her Hair Cut Short). The text is written in a round uncial hand. There is a tendency to separate words.{{Cite book
| last = Grenfell
| first = B. P.
| author-link = Bernard Pyne Grenfell
| last2 = Hunt
| first2 = A. S.
| author-link2 = Arthur Surridge Hunt
| title = Oxyrhynchus Papyri II
| publisher = Egypt Exploration Fund
| year = 1898
| location = London
| pages = 11–20
| url = https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspappt02grenuoft#page/10/mode/2up
}}
The manuscript was revised by a second hand, probably a contemporary, whose handwriting is generally cursive. The second hand is responsible for the punctuation.
There are a few misspellings (e.g. ΕΥΑΓΕΛΙΑ in line 18) and the wrong insertion of two iotas adscript in line 45. The occurrence of the Attic forms in a manuscript of the Roman period are remarkable.{{Cite book
| last = Grenfell
| first = B. P.
| author-link = Bernard Pyne Grenfell
| last2 = Hunt
| first2 = A. S.
| author-link2 = Arthur Surridge Hunt
| title = Oxyrhynchus Papyri II
| publisher = Egypt Exploration Fund
| year = 1898
| location = London
| pages = 11
| url = https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspappt02grenuoft#page/10/mode/2up
}}
It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus, together with a large number of documents dated in the reigns of Vespasian, Domitian, and Trajan. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899. The manuscript was re-examined by Gerald M. Browne in 1974.Gerald M. Browne, [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1974.tb00139.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+3+Dec+from+10-12+GMT+for+monthly+maintenance The End of Menander's Perikeiromene], Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, pages 43–54, December 1974.
See also
References
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Further reading
- Gerald M. Browne, [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1974.tb00139.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+3+Dec+from+10-12+GMT+for+monthly+maintenance The End of Menander's Perikeiromene], Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, pages 43–54, December 1974.
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