 Part of the Tithonus poem was originally published in 1922 on a fragment of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus. This fragment preserved part of 27 lines of Sappho's poetry, including the Tithonus poem. The papyrus appears to be part of a copy of Book IV of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, as all of the poems appear to be in the same metre. From the handwriting, the papyrus can be dated to the second century AD. Today the papyrus is part of the collection of the Sackler Library in Oxford University.
