Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 231

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 231 (P. Oxy. 231 or P. Oxy. II 231) is a fragment of the De Corona by Demosthenes, written in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a roll. It is dated to the second or third century. Currently it is housed in the Cambridge University Library (Add. Ms. 4050) in Cambridge.^[1]

Description

The document was written by an unknown copyist. It contains part of the text of De Corona (227-229) by Demosthenes. The measurements of the fragment are 920 by 730 mm. The text is written in a medium-sized informal uncial hand. It uses punctuation, which is due to the original scribe. There are no remarkable textual variations.^[2]

It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899.^[2]

See also

• Oxyrhynchus Papyri
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 25
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 230
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 232