Menander, Aspis 487-498 and 525-535 (P.Duk.inv. 775)

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Title: Aspis 487-498 and 525-535, [2--]
Uniform title: Aspis.
Author: Menander, of Athens.
Subject: Literary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, incomplete ; 7 x 2 cm.
	Note: Actual dimensions of item are 6.5 x 1.8 cm.
	35 lines.
	Written along the fibers on the recto; written across
	the fibers on the verso.
	P.Duk.inv. 775 was formerly P.Rob.inv. 38.
	Papyrus codex leaf from Egypt. Contains Menander's
	Aspis 487-498 and 525-535.
	Joins P.Köln inv. 904 (P.Köln 1, 3) to which it has
	been added since 1986. P.Duk.inv. 775 is on indefinite
	loan to the University of Cologne.
	In Greek.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publications: Willis, William H. "A New Fragment of
	the Bodmer Aspis." In Relire Ménandre. Geneva: 1990,
	pp. 167-171.  See also M. Gronewald, "Zu Menander's Aspis,"
        Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 90 (1992)
        50-54 (plate XIII a, b).

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