Arthur Surridge Hunt

For other people named Arthur Hunt, see Arthur Hunt (disambiguation).

Arthur Surridge Hunt, FBA (1 March 1871 – 18 June 1934) was an English papyrologist.

Life

Hunt was born in Romford, Essex, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with Bernard Grenfell, recovered many papyri from excavation sites in Egypt, including the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

He worked with Campbell Cowan Edgar on a translation of the Zenon Papyri from the original Greek and Demotic.

In 1913 he became Professor of Papyrology at Oxford succeeding to his lifelong friend and colleague Grenfell, whose professorship lapsed due to the latter’s breakdowns and depression.

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.com
• Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum
• Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum
• Arthur Surridge Hunt
• Guérud, O. (1939). "Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870-1938)". Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. Cairo.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Works by or about Arthur Surridge Hunt at the Internet Archive
• "List of collections". Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. 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. {Reprinted by} Cornell University Library Digital Collections