Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...acquired. The figure, like most others of Greek antiquity that have lately been brought to light, is badly injured by the loss of important parts. The nose, both legs below the knees, the right arm below the shoulder, and the left arm above the elbow are gone; but the fragment which remains is superb. The pose is graceful, the anatomical development moderate, and the modelling large and fine in the highest degree...
Another very valuable fragment is no doubt a schoolboy's exercise, written in an unformed hand with a few mistakes in spelling. It consists of the first seven verses of the first chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. It was written probably about 316 A.D., judging from external and internal evidence. The number in the Museum...
Number 2224 is a fragment of the first or second century, in a much mutilated condition, containing parts of Homer's Odyssey, lines 366, 367, 373-380, and 389-402 of the tenth book...
...Fragment 2223 is an agreement for the sale of a young female donkey, at the very low price of fifty-six drachmae. The date...
...Another fragment, number 2219, is a complaint from a weaver of Oxyrhynchus, to the strategos Tiberius Claudius Pasion, because Apoliophanes, a tax-collector, had extorted sixteen drachmae from...