PSI inv. 295 constitutes the first papyrological attestation of a work that had great success in late antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. This is the so-called Physiologus, a treatise whose author is unknown and which appears to have been written between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. ... PSI inv. 295 is a papyrus fragment of unknown provenance, measuring 8 cm wide and 12 cm high. On one side it has the remains of 14 lines of Greek writing, traced against the fibres, while the other side is blank. The text is mutilated on all sides... Based on the writing it is possible to propose a dating of the fragment to the 6th century: - [Author]

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