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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 16 (P. Oxy. 16) is a fragment of the fourth book of the ''
at the Oxyrhynchus Online The manuscript was written on
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 16 (P. Oxy. 16) is a fragment of the fourth book of the ''History of the Peloponnesian War
The ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was written by Thucydides, an ...
'' by Thucydides
Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His '' History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of " scienti ...
(chapters 36-41) in Greek
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. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt
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in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the first century. It is housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum
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The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.P. Oxy. 16at 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 256 by 200 mm. The fragment contains three columns, written in 50-53 lines per column. The text is written in a small and irregular 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, p. 494. script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to ...
hand.
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 1
Papyrus 1 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) designated by "", "ε 01 (von Soden)", is an early Greek copy of a papyrus manuscript of one chapter of the Gospel of Matthew dating palaeographically to the early 3rd century. It was discovered ...
* Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 15
* Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 17 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 17 (P. Oxy. 17) is a fragment of the second book of Thucydides' ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' (chapters 7-8), written in Greek. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the ...
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