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Ancient Lives | Transcribe. Close This is a piece of text discovered in Egypt, written over 1000 years ago. We'd like you to help us to read it. Images may not be copied or offloaded, and the images and their texts may not be published. All digital images of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are © Imaging Papyri Project, University of Oxford. The papyri themselves are owned by the Egypt Exploration Society, London. BackNext You can drag the piece around to inspect it, or click the map to navigate to a specific region. You may need to zoom to get a better look at the specimen. Click on a character's center point to mark the location. Don't worry about completely covering the character, we only need its center point. BackNextPlay example When changes have been made to the fragment, the save status will change. You can click it to save immediately, or let the document automatically save every 20 seconds. With characters marked, we now need to match them to Greek on the keyboard.

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