PREFACE

The present volume, like Part V, consists of literary pieces, with the exception of the Calendar of Church Services at Oxyrhynchus (1357), which on account of its special interest is included with the theological texts. The papyri of Antiphon Sophistes (1364) and Thucydides (1376) belong to the first of the large literary finds in 1906, the lyric pieces and one of the Hesiod fragments (1359) to the second, of which much still remains to be published. The invocation of Isis (1380) and praise of Imouthes-Asclepius (1381) were found in 1903, the Byzantine classical pieces in 1897, the rest chiefly in 1905-6.

In editing the new classical fragments, especially the poetical pieces (1358-1363), we have received valuable suggestions and criticisms from Prof. Gilbert Murray. The assistance afforded by Mr. T. W. Allen, Dr. J. V. Bartlet, the Rev. F. E. Brightman, Mr. W. E. Crum, Mr. F. Ll. Griffith, Mr. E. Lobel, Mr. J. G. Milne, the Rev. E. M. Walker, and Prof. U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff is acknowledged in connexion with the individual papyri.

Part XII, consisting of documents of the late Ptolemaic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods, is in an advanced state of preparation, and we hope to issue it early in 1916.

BERNARD P. GRENFELL.
ARTHUR S. HUNT.

Queen's College, Oxford,
June, 1915.