frag. XXXXX(b)
[Ed.: Dr. Bruno Fabrizio has authorized us to publish this work in progress on the condition that Fragmentary Poets do not reveal the source of the fragment or its current location. Dr. Fabrizio asked that Fragmentary Poets function as an open forum for the scholarly community on any possible reactions or conjectures, and we are pleased to do so. We ask readers to submit any remarks or hypotheses regarding meaning, possible origin, date, context, authorship, etc. Dr. Fabrizio assures that the text is stable.
It is unclear at this time if and when Dr. Fabrizio will ever pursue this to publication. He just took on a new graduate student, who is another bella figura and apparently not without some talent, and, well, we know what's happening now. (We have a source in Ibiza who, well...we're selling that story to the Sun.) Fragmentary Poets sincerely hopes that Dr. Fabrizio, clearly one of the greatest minds in the history of textual criticism, will not pursue this life to the end that Wilfried Stroh has met.]
frag. XXXXX (b)
ἴσθι μὲν τὸν ἵππο[…
ἴσθι δ’ ὁ αὐτὸς ἵππ[…
It is unclear at this time if and when Dr. Fabrizio will ever pursue this to publication. He just took on a new graduate student, who is another bella figura and apparently not without some talent, and, well, we know what's happening now. (We have a source in Ibiza who, well...we're selling that story to the Sun.) Fragmentary Poets sincerely hopes that Dr. Fabrizio, clearly one of the greatest minds in the history of textual criticism, will not pursue this life to the end that Wilfried Stroh has met.]
frag. XXXXX (b)
ἴσθι μὲν τὸν ἵππο[…
ἴσθι δ’ ὁ αὐτὸς ἵππ[…
posted by App Crit at Sunday, May 07, 2006
2 Comments:
There is an interesting parallel to fragment 9a of Papyrus Duluth, an unnamed wisdom text:
3: nw tw [r tɜ] ssm.t
4: mtw=k wn [m] tɜ [...
Budge filled in lne 4 with m'arina "charioteer," whereas Pavlos Thios saw in it a reference to Exodus 15:1.
Dr. Lenoir informs me by private correspondence that he is now awaiting Fabrizio's collegial go-ahead to publish a brief 68-page note officially connecting frag. XXXXX (b) with frag. 9a 3-4 of the "Duluth Wisdom Text." This will, of course, eventually be collected in his forthcoming volume on the reception of Egyptian fragmantary texts in the Ancient Mediterranean world.
A fascinating find! P. Duluth certainly deserves further study and deeper consideration respective of other recently treated comparanda, e.g. frag. XXXX(b). What better way is there to explore the metacultural semantics of the ambiguous optimism of the Greeks with the prohibitive pessimism of the Egyptians?
Lenoir's paper on the connection between the still mysterious gnomic statement and the Duluth wisdom text will be a welcome addition to the sort of scholarship that Fragmentary Poets hope to encourage and accommodate. Dr. Fabrizio is himself unavailable for comment, but the editors of Fragmentary Poets, as his North American representation, are empowered to speak for him on professional matters, and we are pleased to offer consent.
Perhaps Dr. Lenoir would care to submit an abstract of his paper for publication in this forum.
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