find-site
Oxyrhynchus
el-Bahnasa, Egypt
28.535, 30.647
Attested. The papyri and their find-place are certain. Dating individual scraps is a specialist judgment.
A Greco-Egyptian town whose rubbish dumps have produced thousands of papyri since the 1890s, including early fragments of Christian writings and other gospels.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
200. Greek fragments of Thomas (P.Oxy. 1, 654, 655) from about 200-250, found by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897/1903.
M.R. James 1924 (Oxyrhynchus sayings) · Verified in the source note
Manuscripts tied to this place
- Papyrus 104 (P.Oxy. 4404)
- Papyrus 77 (P.Oxy. 2683)
- Papyrus 90 (P.Oxy. 3523)
- Papyrus 103 (P.Oxy. 4403)
- Papyrus 137 (P.Oxy. 5345)
- P.Oxy. 5575
- P.Oxy. 2949 (possibly Gospel of Peter)
- Papyrus 5 (P.Oxy. 208)
- Papyrus 9 (P.Oxy. 402)
- Papyrus 15 (P.Oxy. 1008)
- Papyrus 16 (P.Oxy. 1009)
- Papyrus 18 (P.Oxy. 1079)
- Papyrus 20 (P.Oxy. 1171)
- Papyrus 22 (P.Oxy. 1228)
- Papyrus 23 (P.Oxy. 1229)
- Papyrus 27 (P.Oxy. 1355)
- Papyrus 28 (P.Oxy. 1596)
- Papyrus 29 (P.Oxy. 1597)
- Papyrus 30 (P.Oxy. 1598)
- Papyrus 39 (P.Oxy. 1780)
- Papyrus 69 (P.Oxy. 2383)
- Papyrus 70 (P.Oxy. 2384)
- Papyrus 78 (P.Oxy. 2684)
- Papyrus 100 (P.Oxy. 4449)
- Papyrus 101 (P.Oxy. 4401)
- Papyrus 102 (P.Oxy. 4402)
- Papyrus 106 (P.Oxy. 4445)
- Papyrus 107 (P.Oxy. 4446)
- Papyrus 108 (P.Oxy. 4447)
- Papyrus 109 (P.Oxy. 4448)
- Papyrus 111 (P.Oxy. 4495)
- Papyrus 113 (P.Oxy. 4497)
- Papyrus 114 (P.Oxy. 4498)
- Papyrus 119 (P.Oxy. 4803)
- Papyrus 121 (P.Oxy. 4805)
- Papyrus 125 (P.Oxy. 4934)
- Papyrus 132 (P.Oxy. 5258)
- Papyrus 133 (P.Oxy. 5259)
- Papyrus 138 (P.Oxy. 5346)
- Papyrus 141 (P.Oxy. 5478)
- P.Oxy. 1 (Greek Gospel of Thomas)
- P.Oxy. 655 (Greek Gospel of Thomas)
- P.Ryl. 463 (Greek Gospel of Mary)
- P.Oxy. 3525 (Greek Gospel of Mary)
- Papyrus 1 (P.Oxy. 2)
- Papyrus 13 (P.Oxy. 657)
- Papyrus 115 (P.Oxy. 4499)
- P.Oxy. 654 (Greek Gospel of Thomas)
- Uncial 0162 (P.Oxy. 847)
- Papyrus 10 (P.Oxy. 209)
- Papyrus 17 (P.Oxy. 1078)
- Papyrus 19 (P.Oxy. 1170)
- Papyrus 21 (P.Oxy. 1227)
- Papyrus 24 (P.Oxy. 1230)
- Papyrus 71 (P.Oxy. 2385)
- Papyrus 110 (P.Oxy. 4494)
- Papyrus 120 (P.Oxy. 4804)
- Papyrus 122 (P.Oxy. 4806)
- Papyrus 123 (P.Oxy. 4844)
- Papyrus 139 (P.Oxy. 5347)
- P.Oxy. 840
- P.Oxy. 1224
- P.Oxy. 1782 (Didache fragments)
- Papyrus 51 (P.Oxy. 2157)
- Papyrus 105 (P.Oxy. 4406)
- Papyrus 112 (P.Oxy. 4496)
- Papyrus 127 (P.Oxy. 4968)
- Papyrus 124 (P.Oxy. 4845)
- Papyrus 26 (P.Oxy. 1354)
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.