Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 236 (P. Oxy. 236 or P. Oxy. II 236) consists of three fragments concerning
Ptolemy Neos Dionysus (Auletes), written in
Greek
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. They were discovered 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 manuscript was written on
papyrus
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in the form of a sheet. It is dated to the 1st century BC. Currently it is housed in
The British Library
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.
[P. Oxy. 236]
at the Oxyrhynchus Online
Description
This is one of the earliest papyri found at Oxyrhynchus. It describes the form of the royal titles during the reign of Ptolemy Auletes, whose name in 1899 had not been found on a papyrus before. The first of the three fragments is written in an almost
uncial
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hand, while the other two are more
cursive
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. The measurements of the fragments are 43 by 62 mm, 42 by 71 mm, and 52 by 46 mm respectively.
It was discovered by
Grenfell and
Hunt
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in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899.
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See also
* 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 ...
* Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 235
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 235 (P. Oxy. 235 or P. Oxy. II 235) is a horoscope written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to the 1st century. Currently it is housed in the C ...
* Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 237
References
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1st-century BC manuscripts
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