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Some remarks on the origin and the orthography of the "Ptolemaic Hymns", P.Lit.Goodspeed 2.

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Abstract

On P.Lit.Goodspeed 2 have been copied, in the II-III century AD, poems identifiable as hymns to the gods of the Ptolemaic pantheon. The work examines the paleographic and orthographic peculiarities of this papyrus (double iota, doubling of consonants before a voiceless stop, doubling of sigma, voiceless stops reinforcing the correspondent aspirate stop), its possible Fundort (Hermupolis?); the performative context of the hymns. In the appendix, a repertoire of other anthologies of hymns on papyrus.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPapers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome and the Near East, Proceedings of the Venice International University Advanced Seminar in Humanities, 2004-2005. (Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità e del Vicino Oriente, 4)
EditorsEttore Cingano, Lucio Milano
Pages1-32
Number of pages32
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Keywords

  • Arsinoe
  • Hellenistic
  • Hymn
  • Orthography
  • Papyrus
  • Ptolemaic

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