Faculty of Classics
Among our many research projects, the Oxyrynchus Papyri project is one of the best known. More than 100,000 pieces, fragments and scraps of papyrus, mostly in Greek, dating from the Roman and early Byzantine periods were recovered from the town-site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt between 1897 1907 and deposited in Oxford. Since then, scholars have worked to catalogue, decipher and publish this material. The first volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri appeared in 1898, volume 67 in 2001; there are at least 40 more volumes to come.
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