Arthur Surridge Hunt,
FBA (1 March 1871 – 18 June 1934) was an English
papyrologist.
Hunt was born in
Romford
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,
Essex
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, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with
Bernard Grenfell, recovered many
papyri from excavation sites in Egypt, including the
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, moder ...
.
He worked with
Campbell Cowan Edgar on a translation of the
Zenon Papyri Zenon may refer to
* Zenon, an Ancient Greek name, derived from the theonym Zeus
Industry
* ZENON Environmental, a Canadian water treatment company based in Oakville, Ontario
* Zenon Petroleum and Gas, importer of fuel products
Fiction
...
from the original
Greek and
Demotic.
Publications
*Grenfell, Bernard Pyne and Hunt, Arthur Surridge, ''Sayings of Our Lord from an early Greek Papyrus'' (Egypt Exploration Fund; 1897).
*Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, Hunt, Arthur Surridge, and Hogarth, David George,
Fayûm Towns and Their Papyri' (London 1900).
*Grenfell, Bernard Pyne and Hunt, Arthur Surridge, eds.,
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi Fragmentis' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909).
*Hunt, Arthur Surridge, "Papyri and Papyrology." ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'' 1, no. 2 (1914): 81–92.
See also
*
Oxyrhynchus 2011
Sources
Author and Book Info.comCatalogus Philologorum ClassicorumCatalogus Philologorum ClassicorumArthur Surridge Hunt*
External links
*
* with items provided by Arthur Hunt
Bibliography
* The Oxyrhynchus papyri, edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection.
Cornell University Library Digital Collections
1871 births
1934 deaths
English Egyptologists
British papyrologists
People from Romford
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers
Intelligence Corps officers
British Army personnel of World War I
Fellows of the British Academy
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