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Title: Epigrams
Creator: Alcaeus, of Messene
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Tebtunis Papyri
Rights Information: FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited: Direct requests for copies or permission to publish to the Rare Books Curator, The Bancroft Library.
Description: 1 column (31 lines) written on recto along the fibers.
Good-sized, rather irregular and uncultivated uncial hand.
On verso: beginnings of 4 lines, written in a large thick hand.
A fragment of a collection of Alexandrian epigrams, including 4 elegiac poems of which the 2nd (lines 13-20) is by Alcaeus of Messene (fl. beginning of 2nd century B.C.). From the early 1st cent. B.C.
In Greek.
Type: image
Format: Literary papyri
Extent: 1 item papyrus, 1 fragment, incomplete 21.5 x 13.4 cm.
Identifier: (t_papyri)00001
Language: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Subject: Epigrams, Greek
Elegiac poetry, Greek
Literary papyri

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