Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum


P.Cair.Masp. 3 67316 verso

53.2 x 29.6

CG67316; JE40467; SR2321

Two poems by Dioscoros

(VIth Century AD)

On the verso, two poems by Dioscoros: the first takes the subject of the death of Achilles (Dioscoros has adopted the legend according to which Achilles, lured into an ambush, would have been killed at the moment he celebrated his marriage with Polyxene) and is an ethopoieia; the second poem is addressed to comes Domninos cancellarius on the prefectural staff. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.

 

 

 


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