AJ "-""'Mo UNI\j '"^^^vB.^i^^ysiPROVO. UTAH Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Brigham Young University http://www.archive.org/details/oxyrhynchuspapyr01gren THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART I GRENFELL AND HUNT Plate I (Frontispiece) .. I- t A^'/r^e:^HMk:/^om^^^:< tHC fXY^B ^'A'^iwfr ^"*""Vi^N/i c^tij^^:si'i' ^ .'' -: ;'.'. " • t;• .- ' i'_ J,, ' /'.-MX ' 1 ; V.J J ^ A f- rr •« No. II U^M EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND GRAECO-ROMAN BRANCH THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART I EDITED WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BERNARD P. GRENFELL, M.A. KEI.I.OW OF queen's COLLEGE, OXFORD ARTHUR S. HUNT, M.A. SENIOR DEMY OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD ; FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF QUEEN's COLLEGE WITH EIGHT PLATES 228928 LONDON; SOLD AT The Offices of the EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND, 37 Great Russell St., W.C. AND 59 Temple Street. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. AND BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road, W.C. BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 Piccadilly, \V. ; ASHER & CO., 13 Bedford St., Covent Garden, W.C. and HENRY FROWDE, Amen Corner, E.C. 1898 HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY PREFACE The hundred and fifty-eight texts included in this first volume of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are selected from the twelve or thirteen hundred documents at Oxford in good or fair preservation which up to the present time we have been able to examine, and from the hundred and fifty rolls left at the Gizeh Museum. The bulk of the collection, amounting to about four-fifths of the whole, has not yet been unpacked. The selected texts have been chosen partly to illustrate the scope and variety of the collection, partly because their comparative completeness rendered the task of editing them less difficult ; for the question of time has been a pressing one. We may perhaps be allowed to draw our readers' attention to the fact that the interval between the arrival of the papyri in England and the completion of this book has been less than eleven months, and that besides deciphering and commenting on the texts contained in it we have, a^ the request of several subscribers to the Graeco- Roman Branch, in most cases given translations. It has of course been impossible in the limited time at our disposal to solve many of the problems of restoration and interpretation Avhich beset any fresh vi PREFACE collection of papyri, and espscially one coming from a new site and abounding in novelties of all kinds. The rapidity of its publication will, we hope, be regarded as some excuse for the shortcomings of this volume. The texts now published fall into two classes, the literary and the non-literary. The examples of the former are probably a good specimen of what may be expected in future volumes. It is not very likely that we shall find another poem of Sappho, still less that we shall come across another page of the ' Logia.' The chances against any individual discovery of great value are always considerable. But we have no reason for thinking that the surprises to come will be much less exciting than those which have gone before. In editing the new fragments of Greek classical literature, at once the most interesting and the most difficult part of this volume, we have had the assistance of Professor F. Blass, who visited Oxford last July, and with whom we have since been in frequent correspondence. We tender him here our warmest thanks for his generosity in placing at our disposal his rare combination of profound scholarship, palaeographical skill, and brilliancy of imagination. Of the non-literary papyri, which range over the first seven centuries a. d. and are of a very miscellaneous character, those of the sixth and seventh centuries have been kept distinct from those belonging to the centuries preceding. Within these groups chrono- logical order has not been observed, but documents have been roughly arranged according to subject. In future volumes we hope to proceed on a more definitely chronological system. To the hundred and fifty-eight texts here given we have added PREFACE vii descriptions of forty-nine documents at Oxford which we have copied, but which for various reasons it seemed unnecessary to print in extenso. Those Oxyrhynchus papyri in the Gizeh Museum which are not pubhshed here will be fully described in the new official catalogue of that Museum which is now in course of preparation, and of which the division of Greek Papyri has been entrusted to ourselves. The ultimate destination of the papyri in England has not yet been decided ; but we shall from time to time issue statements as to the Museums in which the originals are to be found. In conclusion, we have to thank the subscribers to the Graeco- Roman Branch, who have rendered this publication possible, and to assure them that we shall endeavour to give them a volume of equal interest next year. BERNARD P. GRENFELL. ARTHUR S. HUNT. Queen's College, Oxford, April 27, 1898. 1 CONTENTS Preface ........... Table of Papyri .......... Note on the Method of Publication and List of Abbreviations used TEXTS I. Theological, I-VI ....... II. New Classical Fragments, VII-XV .... 10 III. Fragments of Extant Classical Authors, XVI-XXIX 39 IV. Latin, XXX-XXXII 59 V. Papyri of the First Four Centuries, XXXIII-CXXIV 62 VI. Papyri of the Sixth and Seventh Centuries, CXXV-CLVIII 192 Descriptions of Papyri not Printed in Full, CLIX-CCVII 239 INDICES I. New Classical and Theological Fragments 245 II. Emperors 250 III. Consuls, Eras and Indictions 253 IV. Months and Days 255 V. Personal Names 255 VI. Geographical . 261 VII. Symbols .... 263 VIII. Officials 264 IX. Weights, Measures and Coins 266 X. Taxes .... 267 XI. General Index 267 LIST OF PLATES I. No. II verso ...... frontispiece II. Nos. VII and VIII Toface page 1 III. No. IX redo (Cols. 4-5) and XXV . 17 IV. No. XVI (Cols. 2-3) 41 V. No. XX (rec/o of two fragments and verso of third) 46 VI. No. XXIII 51 VII. No. XXVI redo (Cols. 2 and 3) and part of verso 54 VIII. Nos. XXX verso, XXXI rec/o, XXXII . 60 TABLE OF PAPYRI TABLE OF PAPYRI TABLE OF PAPYRI TABLE OF PAPYRI TABLE OF PAPYRI CXLIX. NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED In the following pages literary texts (with the exception of No. v) are printed just as they were written, except that words are separated from each other. Only those stops, breathings and other lection signs are inserted which are found in the original. The non-literary texts have been printed in ordinary type and in modern form with accents, breathings and stops. Abbreviations and symbols in the text are resolved, except in those cases in which a sum is written out both in words and signs ; elsewhere symbols are relegated to the critical notes, as also are lection signs, e.g. diaereses, except those over figures. Owing to the exigencies of the press, a sign which occurs more than once is as a rule only printed on the first occasion on which it is used. Iota adscript is reproduced wherever it was actually written ; otherwise iota subscript is printed. Faults of orthography are corrected in the critical notes wherever they seemed likely to cause any difficulty. Corrections, if written in a hand different from that of the body of the papyrus, are printed in small type ; if not, in the same type as the rest of the text. brackets indicate a lacuna, resolution Square [ ] round brackets ( ) the of an abbreviation or symbol, angular brackets ( ) the omission in the original of the letters enclosed ; double square brackets indicate that the [[ ]] letters enclosed have been erased in the original. Dots placed inside brackets represent the approximate number of letters lost or erased. Dots outside brackets indicate mutilated or otherwise illegible letters. Letters with dots under them are to be considered uncertain. Small Roman numerals refer to the papyri of this volume ; large ditto to columns ; Arabic numerals by themselves to lines. B. G. U = Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Koniglichen Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden. Rev. Pap. = Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by B. P. Grenfell, with an Introduction by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy. G. P. I = Greek Papyri, Series I. An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and other Greek Papyri, chiefly Ptolemaic, by B. P. Grenfell. G. P. 11 = Greek Papyri, Series II. New Classical Fragments and other Greek and Latin Papyri, by B. P. Grenfell and A S. Hunt. PART I. THEOLOGICAL I. IHCOYi. 15x9-7 ^'"• To summarize the literature evoked by the publication of the 'Logia,' and to answer the criticisms directed against the vi€w which we suggested, is far too large a task to be entered on here, though perhaps we may attempt it on some future occasion. The reader will find a useful bibliography of the literature, and a lucid exposition of the different explanations of the text and theories of its origin in Lectures on i/ie ' Sayings of Jcsns,^ by Professors Lock and Sanday (Clarendon Press, 1897), though from some of their con- clusions we should dissent. We confine ourselves here to noting briefly those points connected with reading and interpretation in which we consider that criticism has made a definite advance, and to giving a revised text and translation. In Logion II the parallels adduced from Clement of Alexandria by is to Mr. J. B. Mayor leave little room for doubt that vqarnfiv be taken metaphorically. Many critics have wished to connect -, our Logion IV, with the preceding saying.