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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Part Iv LIBRARY Brigham Young Univi THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART IV GRENFELL AND HUNT > EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND GRAECO-ROMAN BRANCH THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART IV EDITED WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BY ' BERNARD P. GRENFELL, D.Litt., M.A. HON. LITT.D. DUBLIN ; HON. PH.D. KOENIGSBERG ; FELLOW OF QUEEN's COLLEGE, OXFORD AND ARTHUR S. HUNT, D.Litt., M.A. HON. PH.D. KOENIGSBERG; FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD WITH EIGHT PLATES 196531 LONDON SOLD AT The Offices of the EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND, 37 Great Russell St., W.C. AND 8 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road, W.C. BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 Piccadilly, W. ; ASHER & CO., 13 Bedford St., Covent Garden, W.C. and HENRY FROWDE, Amen Corner, E.C. 1904 OXFORD HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY . TABLE OF PAPYRI A. D. PAGE 664. New Sayings of Jesus (Plate I) . 3rd cent. I 65. Fragment of a Lost Gospel (Plate II) . 3rd cent. 22 . Genesis (Plate II) Late 2nd or early 3rd cent. 28 657. Epistle to the Hebrews .... Early 4th cent. 36 Certificate 658. of Pagan Sacrifice 250 ... 49 659. Pindar ^ and Ode (Plates III and IV) Late I St cent, b.c. 50 660. Paean Late I St or early 2nd cent. 6i 661. Epodes (Plate V) Late 2nd cent. 62 662. Epigrams About A.D, I 64 663. Argument of Cratinus' ^lowaaKe^avbpos Late 2nd or early 3rd cent. 69 664. Philosophical Dialogue .... 3rd cent. 72 665. History of Sicily (Plate I) . 2nd cent. 80 666. Aristotle, nporpenriKOs .... 2nd cent. 82 667. Aristoxenus ? 3rd cent. 86 668. Epitome of Livy xxxvii-xl and xlviii-lv (Latin) (Plate VI) 3rd cent. 90 669. IMetrological Work Early 4th cent. 116 670-678. Poetical Fragments .... ist-3rd cent. 121 679-684. Prose Fragments .... I St cent. B.c.-3rd cent. 127 685. Homer Iliad xvii 2nd cent. 132 686-688. Homer Ilmd ii, iii, and xi (Plate VII) About A.D. I 133 689. Hesiod Scufum Late 2nd cent. 135 690-691. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica iii 3rd-2nd cent. 136 692. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica iv 2nd cent. 137 693. Sophocles Electra Early 3rd cent-• 138 694. Theocritus Idyl xiii . 2nd cent. 139 695. Herodotus 3rd cent, 140 696. Thucydides iv . ist cent. 141 697. Xenophon Cyropaedia i Early 3rd cent. 146 698. Xenophon Cyropaedia i Early 3rd cent. 154 699. Theophrastus Characters Early 3rd cent. 155 PREFACE All the theological and most of the classical and the non-literary papyri in this volume were discovered in our second excavations at Oxyrhynchus in 1903, described in the Archaeological Report of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-3, pp. 5-9, and more briefly in the Archiv fiir Papyrusforschiing, III. pp. 139-40. The rest came from the original Oxyrhynchus find of 1897. Owing to the comparatively small space here available for non-literary documents and the discovery in 1903 of a group of papyri, mostly of the early Augustan period, which is rarely represented, we have published all these together with a selection of documents belonging to the next three centuries, instead of limiting the documents to the third century, as foreshadowed in the preface to Part III. In editing the classical pieces, we have, as usual, availed ourselves largely of the most generous and valuable assistance of Professor Blass, to whom is due much of the reconstruction and interpretation of the new classical fragments and the identification of several of those from extant authors. The help which we have received on particular points from other scholars is acknowledged in connexion with the individual papyri. In the Appendices we give a list of addenda and corrigenda to the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II, and Fayum Tow?ts and their Papyri, a revised text of Part III, no. 405, which has been identified as a fragment of Irenaeus, and a list of all the Oxyrhynchus and Fayum papyri which have already been distributed among different museums and libraries. BERNARD P. GRENFELL. ARTHUR S. HUNT. Oxford, April, 1904. a 3 CONTENTS PAGE Preface . List of Plates ............. vii Table of Papyri viii Note on the Method of Publication and List of Abbreviations . xi TEXTS L Theological Fragments (654-658) .... I 11. New Classical Fragments (659-684) 50 in. Fragments of Extant Classical Authors (685-704) 132 IV. Documents ; chiefly of the Roman Period : (a) Official (705-712) 162 {) Applications to Officials (713-716) 180 (c) Petitions (717-720) 189 {d) Contracts (721-731) 197 (i) Receipts (732-734) 224 (/) Accounts (735-741) 227 {g) Private Correspondence (742-747) 241 V. Collations of Homeric Fragments (748-783) . 248 VI. Descriptions of Miscellaneous Documents (784-839) 253 APPENDICES I. Addenda and Corrigenda to Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II, and Fayum Towns and their Papyri . .260 II. A Revised Text of Part III, no. 405 (Irenaeus, Contra Haereses, iii. 9) 264 III. List of Oxyrhynchus and FayOm Papyri distributed .... 265 INDICES I. New Literary Fragments . 272 II. Kings and Emperors . 282 III. Months and Days 283 IV. Personal Names 284 V. Geographical 288 TABLE OF PAPYRI IX TABLE OF PAPYRI A.D. 739. Private Account 740. Account of Corn 741. List of Articles . 742. Letter of Antas . 743. Letter to a Friend 744. Letter of Ilarion 745. Letter to Gaius Rustius 746. Letter of Recommendation 747. Invitation to a Feast . 748-783. Homeric Fragments 784-839. Miscellaneous Documents NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS The same general method is followed in the following pages as in preceding volumes. As before, a few of the new literary texts are printed in a dual form, a reconstruction in modern style accompanying a literal transcript. In other cases, and in the fragments of extant authors, the originals are reproduced except for division of words, addition of capital initials to proper names, expansion of abbreviations, and supplements, so far as possible, of lacunae. In 669, how- ever, which is on a rather different level from the other literary pieces, accentua- tion and punctuation have been introduced as well as in 658, which strictly does not belong to the literary section at all. Additions or corrections by the same hand as the body of the text are in small thin type, those by a different hand in thick type. Non-literary documents are given in modern style only. Abbre- viations and symbols are resolved ; additions and corrections are usually incor- porated in the text and their occurrence is recorded in the critical notes, where also faults of orthography, &c., are corrected wherever any diiificulty could arise. Iota adscript is printed when so written, otherwise iota subscript is used. Square indicate lacuna, round brackets the resolution of a brackets [ ] a ( ) symbol or abbreviation, angular brackets ( ) a mistaken omission in the original ; double that the letters within them have been square brackets [[ J] mean deleted in the original, braces { } that the letters so enclosed, though actually written, should be omitted. Dots placed within brackets represent the approximate number of letters lost or deleted ; dots outside brackets indicate mutilated or otherwise illegible letters. Letters with dots underneath them are to be con- sidered doubtful. Heavy Arabic numerals refer to the texts of the Oxyrhynchus papyri published in this volume and in Parts I-III ; ordinary numerals to lines; small Roman numerals to columns. — xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS The abbreviations used in referring to papyrological publications are prac- tically the same as those adopted by Wilcken in Archiv I. i. pp. 25-28, viz.: P. Anih. I and 11 = The Amherst Papyri (Greek), Vols. I and II, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. Archiv — Archiv fur Papyrusforschung. B. G. U. = Aeg. Urkunden aus den Konigl. Museen zu Berlin, Griech. Urkunden. P. Brit. Mus. I and II = Catalogue of Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vols. I and II, by F. G. Kenyon. C. P. R. = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Vol. I, by C. Wessely. P. Cairo = Greek Papyri in the Cairo Museum, Catalogue by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Catt. = Papyrus Cattaoui {Archiv iii. ^^ sqq.). P. Fay. Towns = Fayurn Towns and their Papyri, by B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and D. G. Hogarth. P. Gen. = Les Papyrus de Geneve, by J. Nicole. P. Goodsp. = Greek Papyri, by E. J. Goodspeed {Decennial Publications of the University of Chicago, Vol. V). P. Grenf. I and II = Greek Papyri, Series I, by B. P. Grenfell; Series II, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Oxy. I, II and III = The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Parts I, II and III, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Par. = Les Papyrus Grecs du Musee du Louvre {Notices et Extraits, t. xviii. 2), by W. Brunet de Presle et E. Egger. P. Petrie = The Flinders Petrie Papyri, by the Rev. J. P. Mahafify. Rev. Laws = Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by B. P. Grenfell, with Introduction by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy. P. Tebt. I = The Tebtunis Papyri, Part I, by B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, and J. G. Smyly. Wilcken, Ost. = Griechische Ostraka, by U. Wilcken. ' THEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS 654. New Sayings of Jesus. 24-4 X 7'8 cm. Plate I. By a curious stroke of good fortune our second excavations at Oxyrhynchus were, like the first, signalized by the discovery of a fragment of a collection of Sayings of Jesus. This consists of forty-two incomplete lines on the verso of a survey-list of various pieces of land, thus affording another example of the not uncommon practice of using the back of ephemeral documents for literary texts. The survey-list, which is in a cursive hand of the end of the second or early part of the third century, provides a terminus a quo for the writing on the other side.
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