Document

• AuthorsAnonyme
• TitlePB 1
• Varying form of TitleP400 and P401
• CopyistsThe land list is written in a competent cursive. The books of the Iliad on the reverse are copied in an upright, informal majuscule with some cursive tendencies (several letters are written in sequence without lifting the stylus).
• Event Date PlaceLand register: early 3rd cent. CE (after 215-216 CE, by contents), Panopolite nome, Egypt; Iliad books 5 and 6: “not later than A.D. 250” (Turner, Review of Martin, by palaeography); late 3rd or early 4th cent. CE (Martin, Papyrus Bodmer I, by palaeography)
• Language(s)grc

Publication, distribution

Edition

Description material

• TypeManuscript
• VolumeDimensions: The roll was at least 31 cm high. The land register was at least 6.6 m long. The roll containing Iliad book 5 was about 4.5 m long, and the roll containing Iliad book 6 was about 2.1 m. In the land register, the height of written column ranges from 25 cm to 27 cm. For the Iliad book 5, the height ranges from 17.0 cm to 18.9 cm, and for the Iliad book 6, the height of the column was at least 27.2 cm. The width of the written column of the land register is 13-14 cm. The width of the written column of the Iliad books 5 and 6 varies verse by verse. The column to column width of the land register is 15-17 cm. The column to column width of the Iliad books 5 and 6 is 13 to 17 cm. The land register has a varying number of lines per column. The Iliad book 5 has 29 to 31 lines per column, and the Iliad book 6 has 38 to 40 lines per column.
• Physical MediumPapyrus, soot-based black ink

Remarques

• General Notes
  Paratextual features: The columns of the land register are sequentially numbered above the top line of each column. Line endings of the Iliad are often filled with long horizontal strokes, or portions of letters at the ends of lines are elongated (such as the central bar of the epsilon). Both books show partially extant end titles.
  
  Decorations: The ends of the books are marked with paragraphoi, and the end titles are contained within ornamental frames flanked by coronides (see Schironi, 176-179).
  
  Other holding institutions: None
  
• AbstractLand register reused for a copy of books 5 and 6 of Homer’s Iliad
  Description: This papyrus roll originally contained a land register mentioning the Panopolite nome written along the fibers (→); the latest date mentioned in the register is 215-216 CE (“P.Bodmer I recto,” said to have been published by Derda, but unavailable). The columns of the land register are numbered, and the preserved portion of the roll contains material from columns 48 to 89. This roll was cut and the blank side (↓) reused to make copies of books 5 and 6 of the Iliad, which were written upside down relative to the text of the land register (Martin, Papyrus Bodmer I. In addition to the framed fragments, there remain several unplaced fragments of the land register, some of them substantial. P.Bodmer 1 is said to have been purchased in Cairo and brought through Tunis by H. H. Abdul Wahab in 1951 (Méla, 34).
  
• Bibliography
  LDAB number 7335 and 2073
  TM number: 60943 and 66088
  Digital text: DCLP Iliad 5 and DCLP Iliad 6
  
  Editio princeps:
  Martin, Victor. Papyrus Bodmer I: Iliade, chants 5 et 6. Cologny-Genève: Bibliotheca Bodmerina, 1954.
  Derda, Tomasz. P. Bodmer I Recto, A Land List from the Upper Panopolite Nome in Upper Egypt (after AD 213/4). Warsaw: Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplements, 2010.
  
  Additional bibliography:
  Méla, Charles. Légendes des siècles: Parcours d’une collection mythique, Fondation Martin Bodmer. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 2004.
  Schironi, Francesca. To mega biblion: Book-ends, End-titles, and coronides in Papyri with Hexametric Poetry. Durham: The American Society of Papyrologists, 2010.
  Turner, Eric G. Review of Martin, Papyrus Bodmer I in Journal of Hellenic Studies 76 (1956), 119.
  

Identification

• ConstellationPapyri
• PID3693
• Shelf MarkPB 1