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In a recent article in this Journal 1 1 published an editio princeps of P.Alex, inv. 80 and showed that it belonged to the same roll s P.Berol. inv. 7116 + 7117-1-7119, fragments of Iliad 4 from the Fayum first published in 1907 by description and brief collation in BKT V. l .3 and republished in a de luxe edition by G. Poethke in 1998 2 (= Iliad Pap. 42 Allen = Pack 2 707). P.Alex, inv. 80 contains the left middles of Iliad 4.188-213 and P.Berol. inv. 7119 Col. I the ends of the longer lines. The two fragments nowhere touch, and, frustratingly, even when they were combined, the beginnings and right middles of all the lines were absent s well s the endings of the shorter lines. Thus, for example, I had to report that we were unable to teil which of the variants άρχόν Αχαιών and Άτρέος υίόν had once stood at the ends of lines 195 and 205 (APF 49, 7). Now, however, I am happy to be able to report that this question, and numerous others, can be answered, since the beginnings of 188-211 and large parts of the right middles of 188-209 have recently surfaced. To make this discovery it was not necessary to mount a new expedition to the sites of the Fayum towns or even to rummage through c

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Author

Michael J. Apthorp

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)