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Poetry

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Accession: JE40924
Find spot: Antinoopolis (?), Egypt approx. site location
Period: VIth Century AD (?)
Date: VIth Century AD (?)
Date range: 500 CE – 599 CE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 49.6 x 28.5']
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Description

The recto contains a mutilated fragment of a contract. The verso, however, contains work of Dioscoros, who has written a prayer with strong hints of Gnosticism, and a poem on the games of Ancient Greece. Also on the verso of the papyrus, there is an ethopoieia on Apollo with Hyacinthus and Daphne. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.

Connections

Found at Antinoopolis

Cross-references (2)

TM-Text 65000 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.275 tier-1

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