Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7

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P. Oxy. 7

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 (P. Oxy. 7) is a papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. It was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in 1897, and published in 1898. It dates to the third century AD. [1] The papyrus is now in the British Library. [2]

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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. [lower-alpha 1] [3] When the papyrus was first published, Grenfell and Hunt wrote that "it is not very likely that we shall find another poem of Sappho". In 1906, however, a major cache of literary fragments from the remains of two private libraries were discovered – the source of the majority of the Sappho fragments discovered at Oxyrhynchus. [4]

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 measures 19.7 cm × 9.6 cm, and is written in an uncial hand. [5] Parts of twenty lines of a poem written in Sapphic stanzas survive, with one and a half feet missing from the beginning of each line. [6]

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Notes

  1. ↑ The poem preserved is Sappho 5 in Voigt's numeration.

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References

  1. ↑ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London. p.  11.
  2. ↑ P. Oxy. 7 at the Oxyrhynchus Online
  3. 1 2 Obbink, Dirk (2014). "Two New Poems by Sappho". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik . 189: 32. JSTOR   23850358.
  4. ↑ Williamson, Margaret (1995). Sappho's Immortal Daughters . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p.  48. ISBN   9780674789135.
  5. ↑ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London. pp.  10–11.
  6. ↑ Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri I. London. p.  10.

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