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Directions for Pankration (?) (P.Oxy. LXXIX 5204)
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Directions for Pankration (?) (P.Oxy. LXXIX 5204)

Manuscript Greek

Anonymous work

Created from the Wiktenauer Manuscripts staging import for ancient papyrus witnesses. Source row 2. Signature: P.Oxy.LXXIX.5204

Quality phase 325: the numeric year 100 is only a lower-bound normalization for a second-century papyrus production date, not a publication year.

Quality phase 389: retained the second-century date but made the editorial pankration identification explicitly tentative. Recent scholarship prefers the broader description Directions for Grappling because the surviving language does not securely identify one combat sport.

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Bibliographic Overview
TitleDirections for Pankration (?) (P.Oxy. LXXIX 5204)
AuthorAnonymous work
Earliest publication dateUnknown
LanguageGreek
CountryNot specified
Document typeManuscript
Authority statement
Anonymous
Authority Roles
Edition History
Directions for Pankration (?) (P.Oxy. LXXIX 5204) 100
CityNot specified
PublisherNot specified
PrinterNot specified
FormatExtremely fragmentary papyrus roll remains; portions of multiple columns survive
PagesFragmentary papyrus remains from multiple columns; no complete line survives
DimensionsNot specified
Primary papyrus witness created from Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 10 on 2026-07-17.

Quality phase 226: year 100 is retained as an approximate CE date for this ancient papyrus witness; it is not a truncated modern year.

Quality phase 325: P.Oxy.LXXIX.5204 is a fragmentary second-century Greek combat-sport text, cautiously described as directions for pankration, preserved on one papyrus sheet.

Quality phase 389: removed the unsupported description of a single sheet in three columns. The scholarly edition discusses multiple numbered fragments, and no complete line survives.

Quality phase 484: the open papyrus and manuscript records support a descriptive, not numerical, extent.

Representative cover/frontispiece/title-page/initial-folio image retrieved from the linked Wiktenauer manuscript page in phase 642. The image type and opening location were individually verified; file 'P.Oxy. LXXIX 5204 (front).png', 800×555 pixels.
Digital Witnesses
Review of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXXIX
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review · open
Authority or scholarly resource linked in quality phase 389.
P.Oxy.LXXIX.5204 — documentary papyrus record
Catalogue HTML
Papyri.info / Bodleian Library · open
Institutional papyrus record linked in quality phase 325.
Wiktenauer manuscript article - Oxyrhynchus Papyrus (P.Oxy.LXXIX.5204)
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Wiktenauer · open
Created from Wiktenauer Manuscripts batch 10 on 2026-07-17.

Wiktenauer image 'P.Oxy. LXXIX 5204 (front).png' used after individual visual verification as the representative cover/opening image for edition 3213 in phase 642.