Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [lowercase] A celebrated Egyptian fish, Mormyrus oxyrhynchus; the mizdeh, formerly reverenced throughout Egypt, and sacred to the goddess Hathor. It is represented both in sculptures and on coins, and was anciently embalmed. See
Mormyrus . - noun In ornithology, a genus of American tyrant-flycatchers, having a long straight conic-acute bill, and green plumage with orange crown. O. frater is a Central American species.
- noun A genus of reptiles.
- noun In entomology: A genus of coleopterous insects of the family Curculionidæ, containing a few East Indian species.
- noun A genus of dipterous insects of the family Cecidomyidæ, characterized by the cylindric produced and attenuate neck.
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Scholars have been using some high-tech methods to examine a cache of ancient Greek manuscripts called the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and have discovered the earliest known version of Revelation 13:18.
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Mark Goodacre's NT Blog featured two videos on extracanonical texts: the Oxyrhynchus Hymn set to music, and a clip from a documentary about the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices.
Around the Vlogosphere James F. McGrath 2009
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Pictured here is a papyrus fragment known as the Heracles Papyrus Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap.
Illuminated manuscripts, the beginning Dafydd 2008
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An Oxyrhynchus papyrus from around 200 AD and the Suda agree that Sappho had a mother called Cleïs and a daughter by the same name.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Pictured here is a papyrus fragment known as the Heracles Papyrus Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dafydd 2008
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The Oxyrhynchus be Orbiting, the Prawns be Praying the sQuids be sQuirming….
BOO! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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An article on the Oxyrhynchus papyrus, which could double the amount of ancient Greek literature available, including lost plays, poems and novels.
April 17th, 2005 2005
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The Oxford documents form part of the great papyrus hoard salvaged from an ancient rubbish dump in the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus more than a century ago.
Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancients Sharon Bakar 2005
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POxy: the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, which is documenting the wealth of papyri found in the rubbish dump of an ancient Egyptian town, currently in the news after many papyri were made readable by multispectral infrared imaging.
Links purge Ray Girvan 2005
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The Oxford documents form part of the great papyrus hoard salvaged from an ancient rubbish dump in the Graeco-Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus more than a century ago.
Archive 2005-04-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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