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City of the sharp-nosed fish : Greek papyri beneath the Egyptian sand reveal a long-lost world

Parsons, P. J.2007
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In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging in a sand-covered mound 100 miles south of Cairo. When they finished ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri from the ruins of the city of Oxyrhynchus. The work of deciphering these fragments is still ongoing.
Main title:
City of the sharp-nosed fish : Greek papyri beneath the Egyptian sand reveal a long-lost world / Peter Parsons.
Author:
Parsons, P. J.
Imprint:
London : Phoenix, 2007.
Collation:
xxviii, 258 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map, port. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.Includes index.Bibliography: p. 217-226.
ISBN:
9780753822333 (pbk)
Dewey class:
932.022932.016
LC class:
DT93
Language:
English
Subject:
Oxyrhynchus papyriExcavations (Archaeology) -- EgyptGreeks -- Egypt -- HistoryEgypt -- History -- Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.Bahnasa (Egypt)Egypt -- Antiquities, RomanArchaeology -- Egypt
BRN:
1053723
Bookmark link:
https://moraylibraries.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1053723

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