Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 231
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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 231 (P. Oxy. 231 or P. Oxy. II 231) is a fragment of the De Corona by Demosthenes, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the second or third century. Currently it is housed in the Cambridge University Library (Add. Ms. 4050) in Cambridge.[http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4----ded--0-1l--1-en-50---20-about-1708--00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.2&d=HASH66d3681e4cf51ca692ae08 P. Oxy. 231] at the Oxyrhynchus Online
Description
The document was written by an unknown copyist. It contains part of the text of De Corona (227-229) by Demosthenes. The measurements of the fragment are 920 by 730 mm. The text is written in a medium-sized informal uncial hand. It uses punctuation, which is due to the original scribe. There are no remarkable textual variations.{{Cite book
| last = Grenfell
| first = B. P.
| author-link = Bernard Pyne Grenfell
| last2 = Hunt
| first2 = A. S.
| author-link2 = Arthur Surridge Hunt
| title = Oxyrhynchus Papyri II
| publisher = Egypt Exploration Fund
| year = 1898
| location = London
| pages = 130–131
| url = https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspappt02grenuoft#page/130/mode/2up
}}
It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899.
See also
References
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