Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 218 (P. Oxy. 218 or P. Oxy. II 218) is a historical fragment by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the third century AD. Currently it is housed in the British Library (Department of Manuscripts, 1183) in London. [1]
The document was written by an unknown copyist. It is evidently part of a collection of "marvelous stories" (παράδοξα), a genre popular in Alexandria at the time. The measurements of the fragment are 136 by 124 mm. The text is written in a small sloping uncial hand. The margin is remarkably high at the top. [2]
It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899. [2]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 212 consists of three fragments of a comedy of Aristophanes, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first or second century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 213 consists of two fragments of a tragedy by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the second century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 214 is a fragment of an epic by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a codex. It is dated to the third century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 215 is a philosophical fragment by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first century BC or first century AD. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 217 is a letter to a king of Macedon by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the third century AD. Currently it is housed in the Cambridge University Library (35) in Cambridge.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 219 is a lament for a pet by an unknown author, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first century AD. Currently it is housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (36) of the Yale University.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 223 is a fragment of Homer's Iliad (E,329-705), written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the third century. Currently it is housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 224 is a fragment of the Phoenissae, a tragedy of Euripides, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the third century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 225 is a fragment of Thucydides (II,90-91), written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 226 is a fragment of the Hellenica (VI,5) of Xenophon, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first or second century. Currently it is housed at Columbia University in New York City.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 227 is a fragment of the Oeconomicus of Xenophon, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 229 is a fragment of the Phaedo, a dialogue by Plato, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the second or third century. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 230 is a fragment of the De Corona by Demosthenes, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the second century. Currently it is housed in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 231 is a fragment of the De Corona by Demosthenes, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the second or third century. Currently it is housed in the Cambridge University Library in Cambridge.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 233 is a fragment of Demosthenes' speech Against Timocrates, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the third century. Currently it is housed in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 249 is a fragment of a registration of some property, written by an unknown author, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to 10 October 80. Currently it is housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Yale University in New Haven.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 257 is a fragment of a census return, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to the year 94-95. The owner of the fragment and the place of its current housing is unknown.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 286 is a fragment of a Claim of a Creditor, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to the 17 May 82. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 289 is a fragment containing taxation accounts, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript, written on papyrus in the form of a sheet, was written after 26 January 83. Currently it is housed in the British Library in London.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 290 is a fragment of a Work on Embankments, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It was written between 83-84. Currently it is housed in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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