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Oxyrhynchus (; Oxýrrhynkhos; "sharp-nosed"; ancient Egyptian Pr-Medjed; Coptic Pemdje; modern Egyptian Arabic el-Bahnasa) is a city in Upper Egypt, located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, in the governorate of Al Minya. It is also an archaeological site, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander, fragments from the Gospel of Thomas, and fragments from Euclid's Elements.
Oxyrhynchus is a small genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. A key for the species in this genus has been published.
Usage examples of "oxyrhynchus".
Grenfell and Hunt had earlier found a segment of this play in the desert town of Oxyrhynchus, about 120 miles south of Cairo, and the Tebtunis manuscript provided enough more so that we now have about nine pages of amusing, though incoherent, text.
Oxyrhynchus, in the same district, in successive publication since 1898, have afforded no new details about the architecture of the Hadrianic city or the cult of the favorite there, but they provide a very complete list of its religious and administrative divisions, which evidently come down from Hadrian himself and bear witness to the strong influence of Eleusinian ritual on his thought.
Once more Isis renewed her search and recovered all the scattered members of her husband, except the membrum virile which had been devoured by the oxyrhynchus fish.