A Michigan Musical Papyrus Revisited

Re-edition of the recto of P.Mich. inv. 2958 (michigan.apis.1711), a musical papyrus from Karanis, focused on the musical notation. This papyrus was first published by O.M. Pearl and R.P. Winnington-Ingram and was most recently republished in E. Pohlman and M.L. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 2001) as nos. 42 and 43. This re-edition presents a number of new readings based on autopsy of the papyrus, a commentary, and a new transcription of the semeia into modern musical notation. Most significantly, this re-edition proposes a reinterpretation of the extra line of musical notation between lines 4 and 5 as a revision of the melisma over (omega) over tilde in line 5.