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The Ptolemaic Papyri of the Iliad

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A 92–118, 244–261. Latter half of the second century B.C. Provenance unknown. Cartonnage. Ed. pr. C. H. Roberts, Catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, vol. III, Manchester, 1938, pp. 181 ff., No. 539. Now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

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  2. I owe this information to Mr. C. H. Roberts, who kindly examined a photograph of the papyrus; he compares the hand of Schubart, Pap. Gr. Berol., Taf. 7A.

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  36. Cf. Iliad P410, pp. 71 f.

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  41. Wecklein included N 558 in this group, unnecessarily.

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  81. Russo strangely remarks “Anche per quanto riguarda lo Scutum il papiro mostrerebbe che già la critica alessandrina aveva condannati i versi 209b–211 a” : a quite unjustified conclusion.

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