Category Archives: Oxyrhynchus Papyri

So-called “First Century Mark.” Wow. (with a coda on Oxyrhynchus inventory numbers)

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

Quite a bit has gone down since Elijah Hixson broke the news yesterday that a newly published Oxyrhynchus papyrus (P.Oxy. 83.5345) is the much awaited “first century Mark” fragment that has been rumored to exist since 2012.

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P.Oxy. 31.2604: Writing Exercises and Palaeography

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

Elijah Hixson has drawn attention this morning to a new volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri series that is set to appear. Elijah focuses on a potentially interesting new copy of the Gospel According to Mark, but I must admit that … Continue reading →

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Excavating the Oxyrhynchus Philo Codex

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

In my previous post, I mentioned that the Oxyrhynchus Philo codex (LDAB 3540) was published in a number of different outlets. There are also some tantalizing hints about the archaeological context of the fragments. Here is the data on the … Continue reading →

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The Oxyrhynchus Codex of Philo of Alexandria

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

It might not look like much at first glance, but one of the scraps published in the 2016 volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (volume 82) belongs to a quite fascinating codex. I’m talking about P.Oxy. 82.5291, a small corner of … Continue reading →

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Palaeography and the Hawara Homer: Part 3, A Christian Example of the “Rounded Majuscule”

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Brent Nongbri

PSI 11.1200 is a collection of fragments of a papyrus roll that contained Plato’s Gorgias (LDAB 3770). Framed together in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, the fragments were excavated at Oxyrhynchus by a team led by Evaristo Breccia in … Continue reading →

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Provenance and The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Posted on December 13, 2017 by Brent Nongbri

Over at rougeclassicism there are a few questions posed about the provenance of the recently publicized identification of a Greek papyrus as The First Apocalypse of James. The papyrus is to be published in an upcoming volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri … Continue reading →

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