Ancient Literacies

(Continued)

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

Reference to Evidence Showing

that the Fragments Came from the

Second Find

26 .MP^31473 P.
Oxy. 1174þ
2081a

Sophocles,Ichneutae Introduction toP.Oxy. 1619, but
cf. the introduction toP.Oxy.
1174: most of the fragments were
found not in 1906, but in 1907.
27 .MP^31471 P.
Oxy. 1805þ
3687

Sophocles,Trachiniae P.Oxy. XV preface

28 .MP^31495 P.

Oxy. 1806

Theocritus P.Oxy. XV preface

29. Parts of MP^3
    1445 P.Oxy.
    1231 frgs. 24,
    32 34, 37þ
    47, 39, 40, 46
    (and 8?)

Lyric, perhaps Sappho P.Oxy. X preface forP.Oxy. 1231

(Sappho). See note 6, table 10.3,

for these fragments as belonging to

a separate manuscript

30 .MP^31739 P.

Oxy. 1083 (þ

2453?)

Satyr play P.Oxy. VIII preface, andad P.Oxy.

1082

31 .MP^31321 P.
Oxy. 1235

Hypotheseisof comedies by

Menander

P.Oxy. X preface

32 .MP^32195 P.
Oxy. 1798þ
2081(g)

Anonymous work on

Alexander the Great

P.Oxy. XV preface. OnrectoofP.
Oxy. 1802 (the lexicon of rare
words)
33 .MP^32127 P.
Oxy. 1802

Lexicon of rare words P.Oxy. XV preface (this text is on
the verso ofP.Oxy. 1798, the work
on Alexander the Great)
34 .MP^32070 P.
Oxy. 1800þ
2081(h)þ
1611 frg. 44^4

Biographies (Sappho etc.) P.Oxy. XV preface

35 .MP^32290 P.

Oxy. 1611

Problems in literary

criticism

P.Oxy. XIII preface, and

introductions toP.Oxy. 1610 and

1619

Note:MP^31847 ¼P.Oxy. 1015. Not a whole volume, but rather a single-sheet panegyric on the
gymnasiarch Theon. Probably the author’s own copy. Belongs to the second find:EEF Archaeological
Reports 1905–1906, p. 12.
MP^32527 ¼P.Oxy. 2084. A single-sheet panegyric on the fig. The introduction toP.Oxy. 2084 states
that it was found in the same find as 1015 (the panegyric on Theon), and it therefore belongs to the second
find. It was not, however, a whole volume.

1. Probably to be added here isP.Oxy. 2445, frg. 1.


2. Grenfell was not sure that the fragments of this manuscript should be assigned to the rest of the
   collection represented by the second find. See, however, Funghi and Messeri Savorelli 1992a, 55, n. 63.
   To their observations, one can add that Grenfell thought the marginalia in this manuscript ‘‘very similar’’
   to those in another text from the second find,P.Oxy. 1234 (Alcaeus).


3. Cf. alsoP.Oxy. XXI, Addenda, pp. 122–6, for some fragments now reassigned and additional new
   fragments.


4. ForP.Oxy. 1611 frg. 44 as belonging toP.Oxy. 1800 etc., seead P.Oxy. 2081(h).