The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 4

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 gaps/missing portions. In 669, however, which is on a rather different level from the other literary pieces, accentuation 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. Abbreviations and symbols are resolved; additions and corrections are usually incorporated in the text and their occurrence is recorded in the critical notes, where also faults of orthography spelling, etc., are corrected wherever any difficulty could arise. Iota adscript an 'i' written after a long vowel is printed when so written, otherwise iota subscript an 'i' written beneath a vowel is used. Square brackets [ ] indicate a lacuna gap, round brackets ( ) the resolution of a symbol or abbreviation, angular brackets ⟨ ⟩ a mistaken omission in the original; double square brackets ⟦ ⟧ mean that the letters within them have been deleted in the original, braces { } that the letters so enclosed, 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 considered 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.