Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2547
- Date:
- 3rd century AD
- Reference:
- MS.5754
- Archives and manuscripts
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.
Location of duplicates
Colour photograph of a fragment of Hippocratic Oath, held at L5847EA
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).
Language note
Greek
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- acc. 315992