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English: Photograph of Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7 (British Library P.739). 3rd century AD papyrus, discovered at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, in 1897. Preserves partial text of a poem by Sappho, fr. 5 (Voigt). [1]
Date 3rd Century AD
Source https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/07/the-mystery-of-sappho.html
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Fragment of Sappho poem

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