Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 17 (P. Oxy. 17) is a fragment of the second book of
Thucydides
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' ''
History of the Peloponnesian War
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'' (chapters 7-8), written in
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. It was discovered by
Grenfell and
Hunt
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in 1897 in
Oxyrhynchus
Oxyrhynchus (; grc-gre, Ὀξύρρυγχος, Oxýrrhynchos, sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian ''Pr-Medjed''; cop, or , ''Pemdje''; ar, البهنسا, ''Al-Bahnasa'') is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo ...
. The fragment is dated to the second or third century and is housed in the
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at
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. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.
[P. Oxy. 17]
at the Oxyrhynchus Online
The manuscript was written on
papyrus
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in the form of a roll. The measurements of the fragment are 70 by 53 mm. The fragment contains 13 lines of text. The text is written in a small and upright
uncial
Uncial is a majuscule Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. (1996) ''Encyclopedia of the Book''. 2nd edn. New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library
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hand. It has only one textual variant.
See also
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, mo ...
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 16
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 16 (P. Oxy. 16) is a fragment of the fourth book of the ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' by Thucydides (chapters 36-41) in Greek. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the ...
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 18 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 18 (P. Oxy. 18) is a fragment of the first book of the '' Histories'' of Herodotus (chapters 105-106), written in Greek. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the third century. ...
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2nd-century manuscripts
3rd-century manuscripts