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New Comedy

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Accession: P.Mich.inv. 4925
Find spot: Unknown, Egypt
Period: (late) IInd century A.D. - IIIrd century A.D.
Date: (late) IInd century A.D. - IIIrd century A.D.
Date range: 150 CE – 299 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 5.3 x 5.6 cm']
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Description

The content is not clear, but the general comic character is obvious enough. The storm (l. 4ff.) is an alegory (see l. 6), and the use of the highly poetical word "AHTES" points toward parody. It offers little more than the second half of catalectic iambic tetrameters.

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TM-Text 69036 primary
APIS-Text michigan.apis.2345 tier-1

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