Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 256

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 256 (P. Oxy. 256 or P. Oxy. II 256) is a fragment of a census return, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to the year 34. Currently it is housed in the Union Theological Seminary (Rare Book Library) in New York City.[1]

Description

The document was written by three women to the strategus.[2]

The date of papyrus is lost, but it is estimated to about 34 AD.[1]

The measurements of the fragment are 150 by 68 mm. The text is written in an uncial hand.[2]

It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899.[2]

gollark: I complained to my MP when the government did some particularly egregious thing... complaining about end to end encryption on the news again, or something... and got a response back... from some random minister... by letter... two weeks later... which did not address anything I said and was related only in that my email and their response were both vaguely about encryption.
gollark: Er, act. Not bill.
gollark: *cough*investigatorypowersbill*cough*
gollark: It seems to mostly be spying here. The UK really likes that.
gollark: I ran dnscrypt-proxy ever since some ISP organization here complained about DNS over HTTPS.

See also

References
  1. P. Oxy. 256 at the Oxyrhynchus Online
  2. Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. pp. 216–217.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: B. P. Grenfell; A. S. Hunt (1899). Oxyrhynchus Papyri II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.


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