NOTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

The general method followed in this volume is the same as that in Parts I-VI. Of the new literary texts, two, 1011 and 1013, are printed in a dual form: a literal transcript being accompanied by a reconstruction in modern style. In other cases, and in the fragments of extant authors, the originals are reproduced except for division of words, capital initials in proper names, expansion of abbreviations, and supplements of lacunae. 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 form with accentuation and punctuation. Abbreviations and symbols are resolved; additions and corrections are usually incorporated in the text and their occurrence is recorded in the critical apparatus, where also faults of orthography, etc., are corrected if they seemed likely to give rise to any difficulty. Iota adscript original: "Iota adscript" (a Greek vowel written after another to indicate a diphthong) has been printed when so written; otherwise iota subscript original: "iota subscript" (a small iota written under a vowel) is employed. Square brackets [ ] indicate a lacuna a missing portion of text, 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 in the original. 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 in this volume and in Parts I-VI, ordinary numerals to lines, small Roman numerals to columns.

The abbreviations used in referring to papyrological publications are practically those adopted in the Archiv für Papyrusforschung Archive for Papyrology Research, viz.:

P. Amh. = The Amherst Papyri (Greek), Vols. I-II, by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt.
Archiv = Archiv für Papyrusforschung.
B. G. U. = Aegyptische Urkunden aus den K. Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden Egyptian Records from the Royal Museums in Berlin, Greek Records.
P. Brit. Mus. = Greek Papyri in the British Museum, Vols. I-II, by F. G. Kenyon; Vol. III, by F. G. Kenyon and H. I. Bell.