Document

• Auteur(s)Anonyme
• TitrePB 48
• Forme alternative du titreP115
• CopistesThe writing is an upright example of the so-called “severe style.”
• Date et lieu de création3rd cent. CE (Hurst, “Papyrus Bodmer 48,” palaeography)
• Langue(s)grc

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Edition

Description matérielle

• TypeManuscript
• VolumeThe original dimensions of the roll cannot be determined. The present fragment is 8.2 cm high and 6.5 cm wide. The width of the written column is about 10 cm.
• Support matérielPapyrus, soot-based black ink

Remarques

• Remarques générales
  Paratextual features: The text employs the diaeresis and apostrophe.
  
  Decorations: None.
  
  Other holding institutions: None
  
• RésuméFragments of a papyrus roll containing book 1 of Homer’s Iliad
  Description: Two small fragments of papyrus containing lines 45-58 of the first book of the Iliad copied along the fibers (→). The back of the papyrus (↓) is blank. The maximum preserved height of the fragment is 8.2 cm; the maximum preserved width is 6.5 cm. Hurst suspected that this papyrus was acquired by Bodmer before his purchase of the “Bodmer papyri” proper (Hurst, “Papyrus Bodmer 48,” 30). And in fact, this piece is probably the item that was described as a papyrus fragment of the third century containing verses 45-48 of the first book of the Iliad in the 1947 catalogue of Bodmer’s collection.
  
• Bibliographie
  LDAB number 9939
  TM number: 68666
  Digital text: DCLP
  
  Editio princeps:
  Hurst, André. “Papyrus Bodmer 48: Iliade 1, 45-58.” Museum Helveticum 47 (1990), 30-33.
  
  Additional bibliography:
  Bodmer, Martin. Eine Bibliothek der Weltliteratur. Zurich: Atlantis Verlag, 1947.
  

Identification

• ConstellationPapyri
• PID3772
• CotePB 48