Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 211 (P. Oxy. 211 orP. Oxy. II 211) is a fragment of thePerikeiromene (976–1008) ofMenander, written inGreek. It was discovered inOxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written onpapyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the first or second century. Currently it is housed in theHoughton Library (3734) ofHarvard University.[1]
The document was written by an unknown copyist. The measurements of the fragment are 334 by 132 mm. It contains a fragment of a lostcomedy: the conclusion of Menander'sPerikeiromene (The Girl with her Hair Cut Short).[2] The text is written in a rounduncial hand. There is a tendency to separate words.[3]
The manuscript was revised by a second hand, probably a contemporary, whose handwriting is generallycursive. The second hand is responsible for the punctuation.[4]
There are a few misspellings (e.g. ΕΥΑΓΕΛΙΑ in line 18) and the wrong insertion of twoiotas adscript in line 45. The occurrence of the Attic forms in a manuscript of the Roman period are remarkable.[4]
It was discovered byGrenfell andHunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus, together with a large number of documents dated in the reigns ofVespasian,Domitian, andTrajan. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899.[3] The manuscript was re-examined byGerald M. Browne in 1974.[2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: B. P. Grenfell; A. S. Hunt (1899).Oxyrhynchus Papyri II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.
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