Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2547

Date:
3rd century AD
Reference:
MS.5754
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About this work

Description

Fragment of a document from Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, including a text of the Hippocratic Oath.

Recto: A business or official document in a fluent cursive hand, almost entirely illegible.

Verso: The Hippocratic Oath. Right hand section of a column of sixteen lines, written in an uncial hand.

Publication/Creation

3rd century AD

Physical description

1 file Papyrus fragment: 105 × 52 mm.

Acquisition note

Purchased in 1968.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Location of duplicates

Colour photograph of a fragment of Hippocratic Oath, held at L5847EA

Language note

Greek

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Accession number

  • acc. 315992