Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 Explained
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 (P. Oxy. 7) is a papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. It was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in 1897, and published in 1898. It dates to the third century AD.[1] The papyrus is now in the British Library.[2]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 was the first non-biblical papyrus from the site to be published.[3] It preserves part of a poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho.[3] When the papyrus was first published, Grenfell and Hunt wrote that "it is not very likely that we shall find another poem of Sappho". In 1906, however, a major cache of literary fragments from the remains of two private libraries were discovered – the source of the majority of the Sappho fragments discovered at Oxyrhynchus.[4]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 measures 19.7 cm × 9.6 cm, and is written in an uncial hand.[5] Parts of twenty lines of a poem written in Sapphic stanzas survive, with one and a half feet missing from the beginning of each line.[6]
See also
External links
- Web site: Papyrus 739. British Library. Digitised Manuscripts. 31 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20191223140403/http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_739. 23 December 2019. live.
Notes and References
- Book: Grenfell. B. P.. Hunt. A. S.. Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. 1898. London. 11.
- http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.1&d=HASH66d2209e4ce504d692ae08 P. Oxy. 7
- Obbink. Dirk. Two New Poems by Sappho. 2014. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 189. 32–49 . 23850358.
- Book: Williamson, Margaret. Sappho's Immortal Daughters. 1995. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA. 9780674789135. 48. registration.
- Book: Grenfell. B. P.. Hunt. A. S.. Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. 1898. London. 10–11.
- Book: Grenfell. B. P.. Hunt. A. S.. Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. 1898. London. 10.
