The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part II

vi PREFACE

The last year has been marked by the appearance of two works of primary importance in the field of Greek papyri. Mr. KENYON'S Palaeography of Greek Papyri for the first time gathers together the results in this department, especially from the point of view of the British Museum collection. Since that book will long rank as the standard authority on the subject, we have taken the opportunity to notice some palaeographical questions respecting which we differ from Mr. KENYON, and on which the Oxyrhynchus Papyri throw fresh light. But our points of divergence from his views are of course inconsiderable in comparison with our general agreement with them. Professor WILCKEN'S Griechische Ostraka Greek Ostraca—the elaborate introduction to which is a comprehensive survey of all the evidence bearing upon the economic and financial aspects of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt—reached us when this volume was already in type. We have therefore been obliged to confine to occasional footnotes our references to that most important work.

The plan of this volume is practically the same as that of its predecessor, except that we have given more details in the descriptions of the papyri not published in full, and have added a grammatical index, and an index of subjects discussed in the introductions and notes.

BERNARD P. GRENFELL.
ARTHUR S. HUNT.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD,
Sept. 10, 1899.