• Material: papyrus
  • Bookformat: roll (recto)
  • Page / Fragment dimensions: cm 6,30 x 7,30 ca.
  • Hand(s) and Date: 1 hand, «a neat specimen of the upright angular type» (Lobel 1951, 15), «in un elegante stile severo» (Del Corso 2010, 94), 2nd cent.
  • Provenance: Oxyrhynchus
  • Owner: Papyrology Rooms, Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library, Oxford.
  • Editions: Lobel 1951, 15; Lobel-Page 1955 (1968), 110; Gallavotti 1963 (1956), 133; Voigt 1971, 160; Neri 2021, 154, 311f.
  • Print images: Lobel 1951 (P. Oxy. XXI), pl. I; Del Corso 2010, Tav. 3b.
  • Digital Images: University of Oxford, Portal P. Oxy.
  • Literary work attested: Sappho, fr. 42A N.
  • Type of paratext: commentary
  • Text-paratext relationship:
    • The scribe, it seems, wrote the (basic) commentary by grafting (short) poetic quotations into it.
  • Repertories: MP3 1453; DCLP/LDAB 3890; TM 62702
  • Bibliography: Lobel 1951, 15; Gallavotti 1953, 164f. et 1956 (1963), 133; Treu 1954 (et sqq.), 10-13; Lobel-Page 1955 (1968), 110; Galiano 1958, 97; Voigt 1971, 160; Del Fabbro 1979, 82 n. 46, 95 n. 81, 114, 125 nr. 48, 130, 132; McNamee 1981, 93; Del Corso 2006, 85, 2010, 94f. (+ Tav. 3b); Ferrari 2007b, 22-28; Neri 2021, 154, 311f., 634, 878f.; Coen 2023, 87.