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This page gathers a handful of small papyrus fragments that have been assigned to Philo of Alexandria, the Jewish philosopher of the first century AD. They survive in such damaged condition that only scattered letters and isolated words can be read, among them words for kingship, sacrilege and prayer. No continuous sentence survives, and the fragments cannot be linked to any known treatise of Philo.
The attribution rests on the source from which the scraps come rather than on anything in the text itself, which is too broken to confirm it. They are presented here for completeness; if the attribution is right, they are a small witness to the circulation of papyrus copies of Philo's writings in antiquity.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions. Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ). These illegible papyrus scraps are assigned to Philo only through their source, and their text cannot confirm the attribution.