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44 Same papyrus, 23
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(Blood on the ground . . .) |
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This was the last line on the papyrus sheet: evidently a very short snatch of song. The metre is obscure, and anyway distorted by the melisma on haima, which resembles that on Aian in 42. The reading of the second note is uncertain; X (= d) would suit the key (Hyperaeolian), but the trace looks more like Y, which would be an exharmonic semitone or microtone down from e. |
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The note for a(po-) has a bold and clear octave stroke attached to it, putting it an octave higher than transcribed. But this is out of the question, unless the whole line was meant to be in that register. Perhaps the scribe, after writing strokes throughout 42, put one here in a momentary lapse. |
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45 POxy. 3161 recto
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