Product Description: Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other cultural artefacts, but instead yielded a huge random mass of everyday papyri, piled thirty feet deep, including private letters and shopping lists, government circulars, and copies of ancient literature...read more

Product Description: This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with introduction, Greek text, English translation, and explanatory notes. In the general introduction the authors discuss the process of grain transport in fourth century C...read more

Product Description: Includes devotional texts which reflect the practice of Egyptian Christians in the early Byzantine period (hymns and prayers), fragments of unknown prose and other fragments of extant authors.

Product Description: This volume adds to previously published early Christian texts four new papyri of the Gospel of John and also includes fragments of a lost play by Sophocles (Epigonoi), two prose works on Hellenistic historians and Hellenistic kings, a rhetorical exercise on speeches in Thucydides, and a lost novel with an Ionian setting...read more

Product Description: Includes the publication of a New Testament papyri with fragments from two codices from Corinthians, unknown hexameter poetry on traditional mythological subjects, and a group of documents relating to sitologoi in the villages around Oxyrhynchus.

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