\ % »- I THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE THE OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI PART IV GRENFELL AND HUNT iP«^ioaj)^ l^ 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 LONDON SOLD AT The Offices of the EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND, 37 Great Russell St., W.C. AND 8 Beacon Street, Hoston, Mass., U.S..A. KEGAN PAUL. TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road, W.C. BERNARD QUARITCII, 15 Piccadilly, W. ; ASHER & CO., 13 Bedford St., Covent Garden, W.C. and HENRY FROWDE, Amen Corner, E.C. 1904 V. f OXFORD HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY '^ >-,, 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 l/ie Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-3, pp. 5-9, and more briefly in the Archiv fiir Papyrnsforschung, 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 OxyrhyncJms Papyri, Part II, and Fayum Towns 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. O.XFORD, 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) .... r II. New Classical Fragments (659-684) 50 III. Fragments of Extant Classical Authors (685-704) 132 IV. Documents ; chiefly of the Roman Period : (a) Official (705-712) 162 {i) Applications to Officials (713-716) 180 { Petitions (717-720) 189 (d) Contracts (721-731) 197 (e) 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 (784-838) 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 Fayum 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 CONTENTS vu PAGE VL Religion 290 VII. Official and Military Terms 291 VIII. Weights, Measures, and Coins 292 IX. Taxes '..... 293 X. General Index of Greek Latin Words 294 LIST OF PLATES I. 654, 5 II. 655, 656 [c) verso III. 659 (Cols, i-ii and Frs. («)-{/)) IV. 659 (Cols, iii-v and Frs. (w)-(r)) . y at Ike end. V. 661, 735 VI. 668 (Col. viii) VII. 686, 687, 688, 720 VIII. 737 (Col. i) . TABLE OF PAPYRI A. D. 654. New Sayings of Jesus (Plate I) . 665. Fragment of a Lost Gospel (Plate II) . 5. Genesis (Plate II) 657. Epistle to the Hebrews .... 658. Certificate of Pagan Sacrifice 659. Pindar and Ode (Plates III and IV) 660. Paean 661. Epodes (Plate V) 662. Epigrams 663. Argument of Cratinus' 664. Philosophical Dialogue .... 665. History of Sicily (Plate I) . 666. Aristotle, .... 667. Aristoxenus ? 668. Epitome of Livy xxxvii-xl and xlviii-lv (Latin) (Plate VI) 669. Rletrological Work 670-678. Poetical Fragments .... 679-684. Prose Fragments .... 685. Homer I/iad xvii 686-688. Homer niad ii, iii, and xi (Plate VII) 689. Hesiod Scu/um 690-691. Apollonius Rhodius Argoiautica iii 692. Apollonius Rhodius Argonaulica iv 693. Sophocles Ekclra 694. Theocritus Idyl xiii . 695. Herodotus 696. Thucydides iv . 67. Xenophon Cyropaedia i 698. Xenophon Cyropaedia i 699. Theophrastus Characters 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 llarion 745. Letter to Gaius Rustius 746. Letter of Recommendation 747. Invitation to a Feast . 748-783. Homeric Fragments 784-83. 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 difficulty could arise. Iota adscript is printed when so written, otherwise iota subscript is used. Square brackets indicate lacuna, round brackets the resolution of symbol [ ] a ( ) a or mistaken omission in the original abbreviation, angular brackets ( ) a ; double brackets the letters within have square [[ ]] mean that them been deleted in enclosed, the original, braces { j that the letters so 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 ArcJiiv I. i. pp. 25-2H, viz.; P. Amh. I and 11 = The Amherst Papyri (Greek), Vols. I and II, by B. P. Grenfcll and A. S. Hunt. Archiv = Archiv fur Papyrusforschung. B. G. U. = Aeg. Urkunden aus den Konigl. Museen zu Berlin, Griech. Urkundcn. P. Brit. Mus. I and II = Catalogue of Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vols. I and II, by F. G. Kcnyon. C. P. R. = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Vol. I, by C. Wessely. P. Cairo = Greek Papyri in the Cairo Museum, Catalogue by B. P. Grcnfell and A. S. Hunt. P. Catt. = Papyrus Cattaoui {Archiv iii. .55 sqq.). P. Fay. Towns = Fayum 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 \V. Brunet de Presle et E. Egger. P. Petrie = The Flinders Petrie Papyri, by the Rev. J. P. Mahaffy. 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. ' I. THEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS 654. New Sayings of Jesus. 244 X 7-8 «. 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 ierniinns a quo for the writing on the other side. This, which is an upright informal uncial of medium size, we should assign to the middle or end of the third century ; a later date than A.D.