Detail View: Papyri Collection: Mythological Fragment
|
Reference number:
|
Greek P 22
|
|
Side:
|
verso
|
|
Image Number:
|
JRL0700897dc
|
|
Image Title:
|
Mythological Fragment
|
|
Trismegistos Number:
|
|
|
Subject:
|
History, Ancient
|
|
Subject:
|
Classical literature
|
|
Subject:
|
Mythology
|
|
Citation reference:
|
P. Ryl. 1 22
|
|
Description:
|
The fragment gives a brief narrative of events at Troy subsequent to the death of Achilles. The events described are as follows: 1/ (lines 1-10) Expedition of Odysseus and Diomedes to the Trojan citadel in quest of the Palladium, where they kill Corybus, son of Mygdon; 2/ (lines 11-14) Voyage of Odysseus and Phoenix to Scyros to fetch Neoptolemus, who receives from Odysseus the arms of Achilles; 3/ Arrival of Eurypylus, son of Telephus, from Mysia. Written in large uncials.
|
|
Date created:
|
1st century BCE
|
|
Language:
|
Greek
|
|
Language code:
|
grc-EG
|
|
Item height:
|
192 mm
|
|
Item width:
|
74 mm
|
|
Technique used:
|
Handwriting
|
|
Support material:
|
Papyrus
|
|
Discovery site:
|
Egypt: Oxyrynchos (mod. Bahnasa)
|
|
Bibliography:
|
Hunt, Arthur S., et al. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, University Press, 1911-1952
|
|
Current repository:
|
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
|
|
Category:
|
Manuscripts
|
|
Sub-Category:
|
Fragments
|
|
Image rights:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Work rights:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Image sequence number:
|
grc0022v
|
|
Image technique:
|
Digital capture by Gten
|
|
Date image captured:
|
2006-08-23
|
|
Metadata language:
|
eng-GB
|