Ancient Literacies

APPENDIX: EVIDENCE FOR THE COMPOSITION OF GRENFELL AND

HUNT’S ‘‘SECOND GREAT FIND’’ OF LITERARY PAPYRI

I provide here references to the statements provided by Grenfell and

Hunt (and Lobel) that show that each of the papyri listed above in table

10.3 was found in the ‘‘second find.’’ The catalogue numbers are as in

table 10.3; I add here theP.Oxy. numbers as well.

Catalogue, MP^3 , and
P.Oxy. Numbers Contents

Reference to Evidence Showing

that the Fragments Came from the

Second Find

1 .MP^355 P.Oxy.
1789 þ2166(e)
þXXI Addenda,
146 7

Alcaeus P.Oxy. XV preface

2 .MP^356 P.Oxy.
1233 þ2081(d)
þ2166(b)þ
XXI Addenda,
127 30

Alcaeus (Book 1?) P.Oxy. X preface

3 .MP^359 P.Oxy.
1234 þ 1360 þ
2166(c)þXVIII
Addenda, 182þ
XXI Addenda,
130 4

Alcaeus P.Oxy. X preface

4 .MP^361 P.Oxy.
1788 þ2166(e)
þXXI Addenda,
139 47þXXIII
Addenda, 105 6

Alcaeus P.Oxy. XV preface, cf. introduc

tion to 1788

5 .MP^365 P.Oxy.
2297

Alcaeus Introduction toP.Oxy. 1092
(Herodotus): Hunt says that the
Herodotus was found together
with another text (which he does
not identify) in a virtually identical
hand. In the introduction toP.Oxy.
2297, he says that the Alcaeus is in
the same hand as the Herodotus
text.
6 .MP^3177 P.
Oxy. 1091

Bacchylides,Dithyrambs P.Oxy. VIII preface, and
EEF Archaeological Reports
1905 1906,p.12
7 .MP^3179 P.
Oxy. 1361þ
2081.e

Bacchylides P.Oxy. XI preface: ‘‘the

lyric pieces.’’ Cf. introduction to

P.Oxy. 1361, distinguishing it from

P.Oxy. 1091 but noting that it

comes from the great find of 1906.

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