Oxyrhynchus
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As is often the case with important discoveries related to the ancient world these days, this is a tale that has taken a while to unfold, although ab initio there were alarm bells going off for some of us. Back on November 19, 2017 Brice C. Jones mentioned an important discovery just revealed at the…
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The most recent ‘newsworthy’ papyrus discovery seems to be a wrestling contract dealt with in detail by Owen Jarus. Some excerpts: Researchers have deciphered a Greek document that shows an ancient wrestling match was fixed. The document, which has a date on it that corresponds to the year A.D. 267, is a contract between two…
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Long-time blogger Ben Witherington has been running an interesting little series summarizing William Johnson’s Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus which folks might want to spend some time with: The Fascinating World of Ancient Papyri— Part One (on some assumption made by scholars) The Fascinating World of Ancient Papyri— Part Two (on the numbers of and…
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LiveScience’s Owen Jarus has put a good one out there … from the latest volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, it’s a recently-translated poem all about Nero and Poppaea Sabina, and the latter’s ‘deification’ … here are some excerpts from Jarus’ piece: A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of…
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