Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts
A British Academy Symposium: 15-18 July, 1998
The year 1898 saw a newcomer on the papyrological scene: the first volume
of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri began the publication of Grenfell and Hunt’s
remarkable finds at Bahnasa. To mark the centenary of the series the British
Academy sponsored a symposium, held in Oxford and London on 15-18
July, 1998. Funding was provided by the British Academy, the Craven
Committee, the Board of Management of the Griffith Insitute and the Faculty
Board of Literae Humaniores.
The symposium was organised by Drs. Alan Bowman, Revel Coles, Dirk
Obbink and Prof. Peter Parsons. Papers were given in Oxford and, on Friday,
17 July, in London. The presentations dealt with the city itself, the
excavations and the different kinds of texts and subjects of study represented
in the papyrus collection. These will be augmented by additional contributions
to produce a comprehensive volume (to be published, we hope, by the Egypt
Exploration Society) on Oxyrhynchus and its papyri.
Exhibition front page / Symposium programme / Photos from the symposium
— modified from a document by Charles Crowther, 16/03/1998