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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421
Peirazomene
Πειραζομένη

The Peirazomene Papyrus: An Imperial Mime Fragment

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Peirazomene (“she who is being tested”) is the heading of an anonymous mime preserved on British Library inv. 2208 (P.Lit.Lond. 52), a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus copied in the third century CE. The title is taken from a line of the piece itself.

The text is printed in the Göttingen collection of Greek poetical fragments of the Roman Imperial period (2nd edn., 1963), pp. 41–42. I. C. Cunningham lists it among the mime papyri (Fragments of the Mimes on Papyrus 13), under the German title “Jungfrau in Nöten.”

The fragment is a verse dialogue of imperial-era popular entertainment, not a Classical poet’s name. It belongs with the other lyric and mime papyri of the second and third centuries printed in that collection.

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