Detail View: Papyri Collection: Aeneid fragment
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Reference number:
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Greek P 478 [a-b]
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Side:
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recto
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Image Number:
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JRL023051tr
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Image Title:
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Aeneid fragment
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Trismegistos Number:
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Subject:
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Poetry
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Subject:
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Classical literature
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Virgil
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Source Title:
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Aeneid
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Section:
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Volume 1
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Citation reference:
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P. Ryl. 3 478
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Description:
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Two fragments (a and b) of a manuscript of Aeneid I. Latin text with a word for word Greek translation. Both Latin and Greek texts were written by the same scribe, although there are corrections to the verses by at least one other hand.
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Date created:
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4th century CE
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Time period covered:
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1500 - 750 BCE
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Language:
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Latin
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Language code:
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lat
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Language:
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Greek
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Language code:
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grc
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Item height:
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Fragment a: 208 mm
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Item width:
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Fragment a: 229 mm
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Support material:
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Papyrus
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Bibliography:
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Hunt, Arthur S., et al. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, University Press, 1911-1952
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Category:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Image sequence number:
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grc0478ar
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Image technique:
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Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, October 2005
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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