Isbn: 9780856981432 - the oxyrhynchus papyri. vol. lxix (graeco-roman memoirs) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: New. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection, belonging to the Egypt Exploration Society and housed in Oxford's Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library, comprises thousands of texts on papyrus and parchment and is the largest of its kind in the world. It includes principally literary, documentary, and other texts in Greek, dating from the second century BCE to the seventh century CE; other languages represented include Latin, Demotic, Coptic, and Arabic. Most of the papyri come from excavations conducted at the site of Oxyrhynchus (modern Bahnasa) by Oxford classicists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1896-1907 on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society). Since then, scholars have worked continuously to catalogue, decipher, and publish this material.The volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri and related texts are published by the Egypt Exploration Society in its series Graeco-Roman Memoirs. About one volume is published each year.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The latest volume in this ongoing series publishing the papyri from Oxyrhynchus (present day el-Bahnasa, a hundred miles south west of Cairo) contains fifty-four texts ranging from the second to the sixth century AD. There are thirty-one literary texts, of which seven are new (one of elegiacs by Archilochus, a fragment of a Doric lyric, a Hellenistic elegy on metamorphoses, a text with musical notation, three hexameter texts in epic tradition including a new Argonautica poem); two papyri of Lysias; one papyrus of Lucian and twenty-one of Isocrates; six of Ad Nicoclem; three of Nicocles and twelve of De Pace; three theological texts (Hermas. Pastor); twenty documentary texts (four land leases, five customs receipts, six sales of animals, and five texts relating to ennobled landowners in late Byzantine Oxyrhynchus).…

Hardback. Zustand: New. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection, belonging to the Egypt Exploration Society and housed in Oxford's Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library, comprises thousands of texts on papyrus and parchment and is the largest of its kind in the world. It includes principally literary, documentary, and other texts in Greek, dating from the second century BCE to the seventh century CE; other languages represented include Latin, Demotic, Coptic, and Arabic. Most of the papyri come from excavations conducted at the site of Oxyrhynchus (modern Bahnasa) by Oxford classicists Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt in 1896-1907 on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society). Since then, scholars have worked continuously to catalogue, decipher, and publish this material.The volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri and related texts are published by the Egypt Exploration Society in its series Graeco-Roman Memoirs. About one volume is published each year.…