[Odyssey, xxii and xxiii, cols. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) in Princeton, the rest in the Cornell collection, currently housed at the University of Michigan. Marks of elision made by the original scribe; other diacriticals and corrections done by a second hand. The Princeton portions of the papyrus consist of eight fragments on which the text is preserved in the following manner: (i) fragment a (ii) fragment b (iii) fragments b, c, d, e (iv) fragments f, g (v) fragment h. Fragment h now preserves only 8 lines, not twelve as published in the ed. pr. The 12 lines of column (iv) are not wholly consecutive: (f) 10 lines from the top of the column, (g) 2 lines from the bottom of a column]

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Homer [Browse]
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Manuscript, Book
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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1 item ((i) 16 lines (ii) 14 lines (iii) 28 lines (iv) 12 lines (v) 8 lines) : papyrus ; (a) 12.0 x 7.5 cm. (b) 11.0 x 8.3 cm. (c) 8.8 x 3.5 cm. (d) 9.5 x 7.9 cm. (e) 5.7 x 4.0 cm. (f) 8.1 x 8.5 cm. (g) 4.2 x 3.6 cm. (h) 8.5 x 6.2 cm.

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Special Collections - Manuscripts P.Oxy. III 448 Princeton Papyri Collections frame 33 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • (i) lower margin 3.0 cm. (ii) lower margin 3.5 cm. (iii) lower margin 1.5 cm. (iv) upper margin 3.0 cm., lower margin 3.3 cm. (v) upper margin 3.0 cm.
    • Ms. fragment
    • Oxyrhynchus, n.d.
    References
    Grenfell and Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (1903).
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    Princeton Papyri Collections (C0401), AM 4422 verso;
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    1340223392
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    • P.Oxy. III 448
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