Critical and Utilitarian Sigla in the Adespota Greek Hexameter Texts on Papyri

Antonio Ricciardetto

doi:10.1515/tc-2023-0019

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Critical and Utilitarian Sigla in the Adespota Greek Hexameter Texts on Papyri

Antonio Ricciardetto

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Abstract

Within the framework of the preparation of the first edition of P.Fouad inv. 220 (unknown provenance, 3rd c. AD), an anonymous Greek hexametric poetry fragment accompanied by a critical siglum, and following my previous work on scribal practices in Greek literary papyri, especially on the graphic signs that accompany these texts, this paper lists all the critical and utilitarian signs attested in the 247 Greek surviving hexametric papyri of the Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine periods. These sigla are either directly associated with editorial work or were added by the scribe or corrector to provide the reader with practical information about the text. In doing so, the paper aims to better understand how the ancients conceived the writing of poetic works, and how they read, cited, and used them.

Keywords: Greek literary papyri; hexametric adespota; sigla; critical and utilitarian sigla; scribal practices; editorial work

Article note

This paper is a continuation of my current research on signs and abbreviations, and more generally on scribal practices, in the Greek literary papyri, especially with a medical content, which have led me to date to the publication of several articles (see n. 1). It also falls within the framework of Programme no. 17439 “Papyrus grecs” of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale in Cairo, which aims to edit or reedit Greek papyri, including adespota hexameters texts, from the IFAO collections (P.IFAO and P.Fouad).

Acknowledgements

I wish to warmly thank Sergio Knipe and C. Michael Sampson for correcting my English, as well as Lucio Del Corso and Serena Perrone for providing me with some useful suggestions.

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Appendix

Table of critical or utilitarian sigla in the adespota Greek hexameter texts on papyri

*Ancora*	P.Fouad inv. 220 + P.Köln II 63 (MP³ 1965.3); the photo shows the siglum visible in the left margin of P.Fouad inv. 220, 14
*Ancora*	BKT V.1, 82–93 (MP³ 1851), col. i, 16 (p. 84)
*Antisigma*	P.Lille inv. 71 + 126 (MP³ 2448.2), fr. s (II), 6
	P.Ant. III 116 (MP³ 1957.1), B 22
	P.Oxy. LXXVII 5102 (MP³ 1984.25), fr. 4, col. ii, 8
Oblique dash	P.Heid.Siegmann 188 (MP³ 1962), col. ii, 4
	P.Köln VI 242 (MP³ 1620.01), D fr. e, col. ii, 16
	BKT V.1, p. 7–18 (MP³ 1774), col. vii, 9, 10 and 16
	P.Oxy. XXX 2526 (MP³ 373.2), B, fr. 2, 8
	P.Oxy. XXXVII 2819 (MP³ 1972.3), fr. 4, 2 and 3
	P.Schub. 11 (MP³ 1978), 8
*Diple*	P.Lille inv. 71 + 126 (MP³ 2448.2), fr. s (II), 2	See supra, antisigma
	MPER NS III 5 (MP³ 1772), 10
	P.Ant. III 116 (MP³ 1957.1), B 4 and 8, and note B 26–27	and the marginal note: > [ ]εν ̣ρ ̣ ̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣]τα με̣ν̣ ̣ [ ̣ [ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ τῷ ἥρῳ ο ̣[
	P.Flor. II 114 (MP³ 1849.2), p. 3, 18
Dotted obelus	P.Köln VI 242 (MP³ 1620.01), fr. e, col. ii, 13
Dots	P.Oxy. XXX 2526 (MP³ 373.2), fr. B 2, 11
Dots	P.Oxy. XXXVII 2812, fr. 1 (a) (MP³ 343.4), col. ii, 32
Siglum with an uncertain function: horizontal dash	P.Mich. inv. 6946 (MP³ 2652.2), col. ii, 41–42