Elegiacs

This material is held atEdinburgh University Library Heritage Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 237 P.Oxy.14
  • Dates of Creation
    • Second century AD
  • Language of Material
    • Greek
  • Physical Description
    • 1 fragment
      18.5 cm x 7.2 cm

Scope and Content

Fragment containing portions of eighteen lines from an elegiac poem. There is a reference to a well-known passage of the Iliad in one of the couplets.

The script is a clear upright uncial, which may be assigned to the second century. There is a very deep margin (7.8 cm) at the top of the column, perhaps intended for scholia.

Bibliography

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. I. Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898, pp. 37-38.