Elegiacs

• 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.

• Subjects

  Greek Language

  Mythology, Greek

  Elegaic poetry