Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 222

II 222) is a list of ancient Olympic victors by an unknown author, written in Greek.

[2] According to Grenfell and Hunt, "the number of interesting points upon which the papyrus throws new light is very considerable."

A few examples of these points are as follows: The manuscript allowed the dating of Pindar's victory odes on the Pythian Games to be definitively confirmed at 582 BC.

The more general value of the papyrus lies in its bearing on the wider question of the credibility of early scholiasts and commentators on matters of fact of the sort discussed in the manuscript.

Thus this manuscript supports an assumption of the trustworthiness of ancient tradition as a sound principle of modern textual criticism.