Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 (P. Oxy. 7) is a papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. It was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus, and published in 1898. It dates to the third century AD.[1] The papyrus is currently housed 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.[a][3] Parts of twenty lines survive, with one and a half feet missing from the beginning of each line.[4]
The papyrus measures 19.7 cm × 9.6 cm, and is written in an uncial hand.[5]
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- ^ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London. p. 11.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ P. Oxy. 7 at the Oxyrhynchus Online
- ^ a b Obbink, Dirk (2014). "Two New Poems by Sappho". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 189: 32.
- ^ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London. p. 10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London. pp. 10–11.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: B. P. Grenfell; A. S. Hunt (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.