Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 288

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 288 (P. Oxy. 288 or P. Oxy. II 288) is a fragment of a Taxation Account, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It was written after 22 July 25. Currently it is housed in the British Library (Department of Manuscripts 798) in London.[1]

Description

The measurements of the fragment are 363 by 180 mm. The document is mutilated.[2]

The document was written by Tryphon, son of Dionysius, a weaver of Oxyrhynchus. It contains a Taxation Account.[1][2] The first four lines are written in a careful cursive, the rest in a larger and freer hand.[2]

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

gollark: Planets are good, robust things.
gollark: Human civilisation specifically.
gollark: Not the PLANET.
gollark: Dyson spheres are impractical. Dyson swarms are where it's at.
gollark: You can't just magically extract more energy from the same amount of sky once you do somehow get 100%-efficiency panels.

See also

References
  1. P. Oxy. 288 at the Oxyrhynchus Online
  2. Grenfell, B. P.; Hunt, A. S. (1898). Oxyrhynchus Papyri II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. pp. 280–284.

 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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