Author: GRENFELL, Bernard P., and HUNT, Arthur S. (editors)
Title: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Library, 2010. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy lavender wrappers. xiv, 311pp, (13pp), (4pp ads). Several illustrations. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of this "Egypt Exploration Fund" 1914 study reporting on a massive haul of third century BCE manuscripts in several languages discovered by these two noted papyrologists in the late 19th/early 20th centuries near what was once a garbage dump in Egypt -- a significant cache covering a wide range of subject matters. .

Keywords: Ancient World


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