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The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus

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• ... that in Tony Harrison's play The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus the satyrs are depicted as hooligans playing a soccer match with a ball fashioned out of the Ichneutae papyrus (pictured)?

Created by Dr.K. (talk). Self nominated at 23:12, 18 May 2013 (UTC).

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Amadas

• Date, length, hook, and source verified. Trout me, and then just trout me, till I can get my troutifaction! (talk) 10:58, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

• I don't know if this is too technical a point to make, or if this is already over, but papyrologists refer to fragments from a single manuscript collectively, so "the Ichneutae papyrus", not "the Ichneutae papyri", would be more in keeping with the language of the discipline.  davidiad { t } 11:25, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

• It was my oversight. Reference [7] A Companion to Sophocles at the bottom of page 558 actually mentions "papyrus": The Delphi satyrs use the papyrus to make a soccer ball and begin to play a match. I corrected it and I will inform Wilhelmina. Thank you. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 12:00, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

• Even better! :) Trout me, and then just trout me, till I can get my troutifaction! (talk) 16:23, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you very much Wilhelmina. Take care. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 17:58, 23 May 2013 (UTC)