Oxyrhynchus hymn
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The Oxyrhynchus hymn is the earliest known manuscript of a Christian Greek hymn to contain both lyrics and musical notation. The papyrus on which the hymn was written dates from around the end of the
Fragment of Oxyrhynchus hymn, 29.6 x 4.8–5.0 cm.
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
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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 rubb
Oxyrhynchus hymn
…lyrics and musical notation. The papyrus on which the hymn was written dates from around the end of the 3rd century AD. It is on Papyrus 1786 of the Oxyrhynchus papyri, originally kept at the Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library, Oxford, which was renamed the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library in…
Grenfell (left) and Hunt (right) in about 1896
Excavations at Oxyrhynchus 1, c. 1903.
One of the oldest surviving fragments of Euclid's Elements, found at Oxyrhynchus and dated to circa AD 100 (P. Oxy. 29). The diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.
Lines 96–138 of the Ichneutae on a fragment of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus IX 1174 col. iv–v, which provides the majority of the surviving portion of the play