Tuesday, April 13, 2021

On the purchase of the Sappho papyri

VARIANT READINGS: New Article on the (ex-)Green Collection Sappho Papyri. The article is by Museum of the Bible curator Brian Hyland in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. It is behind the subscription wall, but Brent Nongbri gives some details in this blog post.

Background on the Sappho papyri and on the complicated Oxford missing-papyri scandal is here and links.

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