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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 27 (P. Oxy. 27) is a fragment of ''
Antidosis The liturgy (, leitourgia, from λαός / Laos, "the people" and the root / ergon, "work" ) was in ancient Greece a public service established by the city-state whereby its richest members (whether citizens or resident aliens), more or less v ...
'' (83, 87) by
Isocrates Isocrates (; ; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and writte ...
, written in
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. It was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in 1897 in
Oxyrhynchus Oxyrhynchus ( ; , ; ; ), also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa (), is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. It is also an important archaeological site. Since the late 19th century, t ...
. The fragment is dated to the first or second century. It is housed in the
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( Haskell Oriental Institute). The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898.P. Oxy. 27
at the Oxyrhynchus Online
The manuscript was written on
papyrus Papyrus ( ) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, ''Cyperus papyrus'', a wetland sedge. ''Papyrus'' (plural: ''papyri'' or ''papyruses'') can a ...
in the form of a roll. The measurements of the fragment are . The text is written in a small upright
uncial Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for ...
hand. Grenfell and Hunt collated the text of the manuscript on the basis of the Benseler-Blass edition (1885).


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