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	Oxyrhynchus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oxyrhynchus is about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, and lies west of the main course of the Nile, on the Bahr Yussef (Canal of Joseph), a branch of the Nile that terminates in Lake Moeris and the Fayum oasis.
		Because Egyptian society under the Greeks and Romans was governed bureaucratically, and because Oxyrhynchus was the capital of the 19th nome, the material at the Oxyrhynchus dumps included vast amounts of paper.
		The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, therefore, contained a complete record of the life of the town, and of the civilizations and empires of which the town was a part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxyrhynchus (2242 words)

	Oxyrhynchus Gospels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oxyrhynchus Gospels are two fragmentary manuscripts (British Library accession numbers 840 and 1224), which throw light on early non-canonical Gospel traditions of Christianity for scholars, but which are ignored by most Christians due to their being extremely fragmentary.
		Oxyrhynchus 840, found in 1905, is a single small vellum parchment leaf with 45 lines of text written on both sides in a tiny neat hand that dates it to the 4th century.
		Oxyrhynchus 1224 consists of two small papyrus fragments from the late 3rd or early 4th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Gospels (564 words)

	Oxyrhynchus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Unfortunately, Oxyrhynchus was a fairly ordinary provincial town, not a centre of learning, and most of its citizens had little interest in literature or philosophy.
		Other Oxyrhynchus texts preserve parts of the Apocalypse of Baruch (chapters 12–14; 4th or 5th century; number 403), the Gospel according to the Hebrews (3rd century AD; number 655), The Shepherd of Hermas (3rd or 4th century; number 404), and a work of Irenaeus, (3rd century; number 405).
		In 1966 the Oxyrhynchus excavations and the publication of the papyri was formally adopted as a Major Research Project of the British Academy, jointly managed by Oxford University and University College London and headed by Peter Parsons.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Oxyrhynchus (2571 words)

	Christian Oxyrhynchus (modern al-Bahnasa) and its Environs
		Oxyrhynchus (meaning sharp-nosed fish) was the main city within the nineteenth nome (province) during Egypt's Pharaonic Period.
		Oxyrhynchus, which is today the predominately Muslim town of al-Bahnasa (Behnesa), was in the archaic Christian period, an important center for that religion (as well as an Episcopal See).
		The actual ruins of Oxyrhynchus lie outside the modern village as well as beneath it, some seventeen kilometers west of Beni Mazar on the banks of the Bahr Yusuf canal at the edge of the Western Desert.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/oxyrhynchus.htm (1653 words)

	Oxyrhynchus Hymn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oxyrhynchus was among Egypt's most prominent cities under its Hellenistic and Roman rulers.
		It is situated on the Bahr Yusuf, the branch of the Nile that terminates in Lake Moeris and the Fayum oasis.
		Oxyrhynchus, or Oxyrhynchon polis, means ‘City of the Sharp-nosed Fish’.
	www.wardell.org /gen/oxyrhynchus.htm (236 words)

	New Oxyrhynchus NT Papyri
		Indeed, Grenfell recorded that it was Oxyrhynchus’ renown as an important Christian site, with a number of churches and thousands of monks in the fourth and fifth centuries, that in part at least, motivated the original search.
		The manuscripts themselves provide evidence of a growing number of churches (from two in the third century, up to around forty in the sixth centuries) and, in a later period, thousands of monks.
		Doubtless this explains the relative lack of attention given to Oxyrhynchus in particular among textual critics.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Tyndale/staff/Head/NTOxyPap.htm (2892 words)

	The Coins from Oxyrhynchus - J.G. Milne
		It is perhaps only by chance that this one coin belongs to a place which the relations of the early Ptolemies were particularly close, and which was for a time under their sway.
		The inflow of coin from outside Egypt did not however assume importance immediately upon the reform : this can best be shown by a classification of the identifiable specimens under their mints in chronological groups for the period of apporximately 110 years from the reform to the death of Arcadius.
		There is not in the finds from Oxyrhynchus a single coin of recognisable official mintage belonging to the period between Honorius and Justinian.
	www.coinsofromanegypt.org /html/library/milne/milne_CofO.htm (1952 words)

	Spurlock Museum: Collections
		Ten miles west of the Nile, located in Middle Egypt, Oxyrhynchus was the regional capital during Ptolemaic and Roman rule and may have housed as many as 6000 people at its height.
		Oxyrhynchus was first excavated between 1897-1907 by B. Grenfell and A. Hunt of Queen’s College, Oxford in conjunction with the Egypt Exploration Fund.
		Thousands of papyri such as this letter were extracted from refuse dumps along the edge of town containing discarded manuscripts from archives that dated between the Roman and Early Islamic periods.
	www.spurlock.uiuc.edu /collections/artifact/oxyrhynchus.html (379 words)

	The Oxyrhynchus Papyri & The Oldest Christian Hymn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander and the Gospel of Thomas (an important early Christian document), and the oldest known music notation and lyrics of a Christian hymn.
		The Oxyrhynchus papyri thus contained a complete record of the life of the town, and of the civilisations of which the town was a part.
		The recovery of papyri began in the middle of the eighteenth century, when the remains of a Greek library on papyrus rolls were found in Italy at Herculaneum, preserved by the debris of an eruption of Vesuvius.
	www.nationwide.net /~amaranth/PapyrusHymn.htm (882 words)

	The Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel
		Further, it is likely that the original document was composed at least by the early 2d century, since it shares none of the uncontrolled fantasies about Jesus and the disciples that 2d and 3d century apocryphal accounts typically exhibit.
		Sellew notes that the Oxyrhynchus 840 Gospel is "similar to the New Testament gospels in its style and tone," particularly similar to Matthew 15 and Mark 7, which record disputes over purity issues.
		The document is different from the canonical gospels in the consistent use of the term "Savior" to identify Jesus, which is found only once in Luke and once in John.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /oxyrhynchus840.html (735 words)

	Oxyrhynchus
		Oxyrhynchus polis’ literally means ‘City of the Sharp Nosed Fish’ (the fish in question was a sacred animal connected to the god Thoeris) and is the Greek name for the Dynastic settlement of Per-medjed.
		Oxyrhynchus was an important city in Greek and Roman controlled Egypt—the capital of the 19
		The site of Oxyrhynchus provides a tantalizing glimpse at a world thousands of years removed from us in time. Many writings by authors from the Greek and Roman periods thought long lost (such as the works of Greek poets Pindar and Callimachus) were found among the great city’s refuse.
	mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/archaeology/sites/oxyrhynchus.html (175 words)

	Oxyrhynchus
		Accounts, tax returns, census material, invoices, receipts, correspondence on administrative, military, religious, economic and political matters, certificates and licenses of all kinds - all these were periodically cleaned out of government offices, put in wicker baskets, and dumped out in the desert.
		The works found at Oxyrhynchus have greatly raised Menander's status among classicists and scholars of Greek theater.
		Finds at OxyrhynchusAlthough the hope of finding all the lost literary works of antiquity at Oxyrhynchus was not realised, many important Greek texts were found at the site.
	www.crystalinks.com /oxyrhynchus.html (2349 words)

	"The Oxyrhynchus Papyri" by Edward Willett
		Oxyrhynchus had walls 4.8 kilometres around, five or more gates, streets that stretched more than 1 1/2 kilometres, a theatre with seating for 11,000, and a natural canal that connected to the Nile.
		Like any town that size, it generated a lot of rubbish, which was dumped outside the walls, between the city and the surrounding farms and orchards.
		Oxyrhynchus throve for 750 years, from 400 B.C. to 350 A.D., but has left no ruins for archeologists to explore.
	www.edwardwillett.com /Columns/oxyrhynchuspapyri.htm (605 words)

	Oxyrhynchus Papyri - New Light on Ancient Texts - Robert W. Franson
		One of the great treasure troves of documents is in fact an ancient rubbish heap of the Greek-settled city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, on the Nile near Memphis.
		The Oxyrhynchus Papyri at Oxford University comprise 400,000 fragments.
		There are maps, examples of papyri, illustrations of the city of Oxyrhynchus when the archaeologists discovered its buried riches of ancient words, discussions of how the scholars work on the documents and develop the texts.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Comments/Oxyrhynchus-Papyri.html (661 words)

	Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford - Research Projects
		This project began with the excavation, in 1897-1907, of the town-site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
		The first volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri appeared in 1898, volume 67 in 2001; there are at least 40 more volumes to come.
		Unknown Greek literature from Oxyrhynchus: the mini-epic of Simonides on the Battle of Plataea (P.Oxy.
	www.classics.ox.ac.uk /research/projects/oxy.asp (491 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 The City of the Sharp Nosed Fish - Oxyrhynchus or Oxyrhynchos
		The city of Oxyrhynchus bustled and thrived between 400 BC and 350 AD before vanishing beneath the Egyptian sands.
		Oxyrhynchus is the Greek translation for City of the Sharp Nosed Fish, as the citizens worshipped the sharp nosed pike which thrived in the Nile nearby.
		The ancient city's rubbish dump was unearthed by two Victorian gentlemen archaeologists and sent back to the Ashmolean in 104 large tin trunks.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/oxyrhynchos.shtml (606 words)

	POxy Oxyrhynchus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oxyrhynchus yielded a huge random mass of everyday papers —; private letters and shopping lists, tax returns and government circulars...maybe 50,000 in all.
		Sporadically and in fragments, the dumps of Oxyrhynchus are changing all that.
		Oxyrhynchus restores to us authors famous in classical times, who went under in the Middle Ages: the songs of Sappho, the sitcom of Menander, the elegant and learned elegies of Callimachus that Roman poets liked to boast of imitating.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~chri1884/oxyrhynchus/parsons4.html (162 words)

	Decoded At Last: The 'Classical Holy Grail' By David Keys and Nicholas Pyke
		Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed.
		The papyrus fragments were discovered in historic dumps outside the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus ("city of the sharp-nosed fish") in central Egypt at the end of the 19th century.
		Since it was unearthed more than a century ago, the hoard of documents known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri has fascinated classical scholars.
	www.countercurrents.org /arts-pyke190405.htm (1016 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		A figurine from Oxyrhynchus of one of these sacred fish has many attributes typical of mormyrids: a long anal fin, a small caudal fin, widely spaced pelvic and pectoral fins, and of course the downturned snout.[1]
		Yet of the many thousands of papyri excavated from Oxyrhynchus, only about ten percent were literary.
		Part of it was first published in 1922 from an Oxyrhynchus papyrus, no. 1787 (fragment 1: images available on this site).
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Oxyrhynchus_.html (2127 words)

	The oldest diagram from Euclid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Oxyrhynchus at that time was populated by Greek colonists, a remnant of the conquest in about 330 B. by Alexander the Great.
		This is a facsimile of the report in volume I of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, as well as their transcription into more readable Greek of the exact text.
		This is referred to as Oxyrhynchus I.29 because it is number 29 among the published papyri.
	www.math.ubc.ca /~cass/Euclid/papyrus/papyrus.html (1423 words)

	SF-Fandom - Oxyrhynchus Papyri
		But the papyri, old forms of paper made from reeds that grew along the Nile, are fragmentary and fragile, and the pace of translating them and placing them in context is mind-numbingly slow.
		Scholars have become accustomed to the decorous pace of the Oxyrhynchus work, which is published as it goes along, in a new volume every year or two.
		Important discoveries from the collection are generally announced in academic journals and on the Oxyrhynchus Web site before the world at large hears about them.
	www.sf-fandom.com /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=19227 (244 words)

	What's up with the Oxyrhynchus papryi? \| Ask MetaFilter
		In the spring there was a lot of discussion about the Oxyrhynchus papyri, but since then the news has totally died down.
		The text in the Oxyrhynchus papyri was published as long ago as 1922, but it was so incomplete that no one could recognise it for what it was.
		Two colleagues of mine had a hand in translating another of the Oxyrhynchus papyri, the so-called 'Charition mime' (POxy 413), a wretched parody of Euripides containing the immortal line 'go and perform cunnilingus on that bilgepipe'.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/26687 (605 words)

	IBSS - The Bible - New Testament: Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At Oxyrhynchus they dug for 13 seasons to 1909.
		It was the village dumps where they found baskets full of papyri.
		So far 3875 documents have been published in the series entitled Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
	www.bibleandscience.com /bible/sources/oxyrhynchus.htm (74 words)

	The Impact of 3D VR Reconstructions - Oxyrhynchus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Question - One aim of this model is to reveal the extent to which Egypt became integrated into the Greek and Roman world.
		Comments on the model: Despite that we do not have the precise plan of the Oxyrhynchus Theatre, we could propose a fairly detailed 3D reconstruction based on the layout and designs found on other theatres from that period that were better preserved.
		The model itself is much easier to build than reconstructing ancient cities, which are bound to be more irregular and also massive.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /3d/impact_oxyrhynchus.html (179 words)

	The gospel of Thomas.
		Three Greek fragments of the gospel of Thomas were discovered at Oxyrhynchus very early in the twentieth century, long before the complete Coptic version was discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945.
		Whence these men, placing the arch-begotten nature of the whole of things in an arch-begetting seed, having heard the Hippocratean [saying] that a child of seven years is half a father, say that in fourteen years, according to Thomas, it is made apparent.
		The explicit reference is to Thomas 4 (see papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654, lines 21-25), but the saying about the fourteenth year is not extant.
	www.textexcavation.com /gospelthomas.html (1376 words)

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