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Excavations at Oxyrhynchus 1, c. 1903. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt ( 28°32′N 30°40′E, modern el-Bahnasa ).
Papyrus 115 ( P. Oxy. 4499), designated by 𝔓115 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts) is a fragmented manuscript of the New Testament written in Greek on papyrus. It consists of 26 fragments of a codex containing parts of the Book of Revelation. [ 1] Using the study of comparative writing styles ( palaeography ), the ...
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 110. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 110 ( P. Oxy. 110 or P. Oxy. I 110) is an invitation to dinner, written in Greek and discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. The document was written in the 2nd century. Currently it is housed at Eton College in Eton, Berkshire.
Donut Wall. Ensure your engagement party is as sweet as your love with a donut wall. Coordinate the pegboard and donuts to the color scheme of your engagement party, and it'll double as both a ...
Petra papyri. The Petra papyri, also known as the Petra archive, is a corpus of papyrus documents written in Ancient Greek and dating to the 6th century AD that were discovered in the Byzantine Church at Petra in 1993. [ 1] At some 140 papyrus rolls, the collection constitutes the largest corpus of ancient documents ever found in Jordan and ...
Diary of Merer. The Diary of Merer (also known as Papyrus Jarf) is the name for papyrus logbooks written over 4,500 years ago by Merer, a middle-ranking official with the title inspector ( sḥḏ, sehedj ). They are the oldest known papyri with text, dating to the 27th year of the reign of Pharaoh Khufu (reigned in the early 26th century BC ...
The unfinished Pyramid of Neferefre at Abusir. The Abusir Papyri are the largest papyrus findings to date from the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt. [1] [2] The first papyri were discovered in 1893 at Abu Gorab near Abusir in northern Egypt. Their origins are dated to around the 24th century BC during the Fifth dynasty of Egypt, making them, even ...
Photo of ancient papyrus document, showing vertical and horizontal striations from the strips of pith of the papyrus plant. This list of papyri from ancient Egypt includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek. Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical texts which ...