The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part XVI

NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

THE method followed in this volume is that of Parts XII and XIV. With the exception of 1927 and 1928 verso, which may be classed as literary, the texts are printed in modern form with accentuation and punctuation. Abbreviations and symbols are resolved; additions and corrections are usually incorporated in the text: the former indicated by ' ', the latter notified in the critical apparatus, where also faults of orthography, etc., are corrected if they seemed likely to occasion any difficulty. Where additions or corrections are distinguished by a varying type, those by the same hand as the body of the text are in small thin type, those by a different hand in thick type. Iota adscript has been printed where so written, otherwise iota subscript is employed. Square brackets [ ] indicate a lacuna, round brackets ( ) the resolution of a symbol or abbreviation, angular brackets < > a mistaken omission in the original, braces { } a superfluous letter or letters, double square brackets [[ ]] a deletion. Dots placed within brackets represent approximately the number of letters lost or deleted; dots outside brackets indicate mutilated or otherwise illegible letters. Letters with dots under them are to be considered doubtful. Heavy Arabic numerals refer to the texts of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri in this volume and Parts I—XV, ordinary numerals to lines, small Roman numerals to columns.

The abbreviations used in citing papyrological publications are practically those adopted in the Archiv für Papyrusforschung, viz.:—

Archiv = Archiv für Papyrusforschung.
B. G. U. = Aeg. Urkunden aus den k. Museen zu Berlin, griech. Urkunden Egyptian Records from the Royal Museums of Berlin, Greek Records.
C. P. R. = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri.
M. Chr. = L. Mitteis, Chrestomathie anthology of texts.
P. Amh. = The Amherst Papyri, Vols. I–II, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt.
P. Bad. = Veröffentlichungen aus den badischen Papyrus-Sammlungen, griech. Pap. Publications from the Baden Papyrus Collections, Greek Papyri, by F. Bilabel.
P. Brit. Mus. = Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vols. I–V, by Sir F. G. Kenyon and H. I. Bell.
P. Cairo = Catalogue des Antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Greek Papyri Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities of the Cairo Museum, Greek Papyri, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt.

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