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 25 July 2011

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Images for news release 'Public to hunt for lost gospels'

Papyri of a lost gospel from the Oxyrhynchus collection

Caption: Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 5072 (3rd century AD), Uncanonical Gospel. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and Imaging Papyri Project, Oxford. All rights reserved.

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Papyri with ink drawing from Oxyrhynchus collection

Caption: Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2652 (2nd or 3rd century AD), Ink drawing showing the goddess Agnoia ("Ignorance") from an illustrated edition of Menander's comedy "Perikeiromene" ("The Girl who had Her Hair Shorn"). Credit: Photo courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society and Imaging Papyri Project, Oxford. All rights reserved.

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