In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a low sand-covered mound a hundred miles south of Cairo. When they had finally finished, ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous and scholarly work of deciphering thes…
This thesis is an edition of 19 literary papyri containing parts of Iliad Books 3 and 8 (Part A) and 24 unpublished documents written on papyrus (Part B). All these papyri were found in Egypt, at the village Bahnasa, Oxyrhynchos of the Graeco-Roman period. Their dates vary from …
This work is an exploration of the papyrological evidence from sixth-century CE Egypt within the theoretical framework of social network analysis, and an attempt to use network analysis to challenge scholarly orthodoxies of the period. I argue that the behavior of the elites in …
"The volume offers an account of Oxyrhynchus [Bahnasā] as an ancient city and archaeological site by surveying its material culture and art objects, including sculpture and draftsmanship, against the backdrop of the papyrus texts. It includes treatments of the site itself (city …
