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Excerpt from The Tebtunis Papyri, Vol. 1 The papyri which form the subject of the present volume were found by us in the winter of 1899-1900 at 0mm el Baragat (the ancient Tebtunis) in the south of the Fayfim, when we were exca vating for the University of California with funds generously provided by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. Brief accounts of the excavations have appeared in the At/zemum, 1900, pp. 600 - 1, and the Arc/zit) fur Papyrusy'orsc/mng, I. Pp. 376 - 8. The large collection of papyri which we then obtained falls into three parts (1) those from the cartonnage of mummies, which belong to the third or second centuries B. C.; (2) those from the mummies of crocodiles, which with a few exceptions belong to the end of the second or to the early part of the first century B. C (3) those found in the ruins of the town, which nearly all belong to the first three centuries of the Christian era. The present volume deals only with the second division (with the addition of a few late Ptolemaic documents from the third), and includes practically the whole of it; for though there are still some small crocodile-mummies containing papyri which have not yet been opened, it is unlikely that they will produce any well-preserved documents of importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.