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HUNT, Arthur Surridge

  • Arthur Surridge HUNT
  • Date of Birth: March 1, 1871
  • Born City: Romford, Essex
  • Born State/Country: England
  • Parents: Alfred Henry, a solicitor, & Mary Ann Emily Pertwee H.
  • Date of Death: June 18, 1934
  • Death City: Chadlington
  • Death State/Country: England
  • Married: Lucy Ellen Bradshaw, January, 1918.
  • Education:

    Cranbrook School, Kent; Eastbourne College; B.A. (second class), Queen’s College Oxford, 1893; Aubrey Moore studentship 1894; Craven Fellowship, 1894.
  • Professional Experience:

    College, Oxford, 1901-6; fellow Queen’s College Oxford 1906-8; reader, papyrology, Oxford, 1908-13; military service, 1914-19; Extraordinary prof. Papyrology, Oxford, 1913; fellow, British Academy, 1913.
  • Publications:

    New Classical Fragments and Other Greek Papyri, ed. with B.P. Grenfell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897); Sayings of Our Lord from an Early Greek Papyrus ed with B.P. Grenfell (London: Published for the Egypt Exploration Fund by H, Frowde,1897); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri ˆ17 vols. ed. with B.P. Grenfell vols. 1-6 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1898-1906); vols. 7-9 (1910-12) ed. with Grenfell, vols. 10-15 (1914-22) vol. 16 ed. with Grenfell & H.I. Bell, 1924) vol. 17 (1927); Fayum Towns and Their Papyri, ed. with B.P. Grenfell & D.G. Hogarth (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900-1); The Amherst Papyri, ed. with B.P. Grenfell, 2 vols. (London: H, Frowde,1900-1); The Tebtunis Papyri vol. 1 (1902); vol. 2 ed with B.P. Grenfell & Josiah Gilbart Smyly (London: Frowde for Oxford U. Press, 1907) vol. 3, pt 1 ed with J.G. Smyly (1933); vol. 3 pt 2, ed with J.G. Smyly & C.C. Edgar (1938); The Hibeh Papyri vol. 1 ed. with B.P. Grenfell (London: Egypt Exploration Fund,1906); Hellenica Oxyrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi fragmentis… (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909); Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, vol. 1, Literary Texts, (ed.) (Manchester: Manchester U. Press, 1911); vol. 2 Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods ed. with J. de M. Johnson & V.Martin (1915); Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Papyracea (ed.) OCT (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912); Two Theocritus Papyri ed. with John Johnson (London: Sold at the offices of the Egypt Exploration Society, 1930). 
  • Sources:

    P. Jouguet, RP 8 (1934) 333-7; H.I. Bell, PBA 20 (1934) 323-36; J.G. Milne, JEA 20 (1934) 204-5; H.I. Bell. AegyptusXIV (1934) 499-503; W. Kunkel, Savigny Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschich, Romanistische Abt. 56 (1936) 426-7;  U. Wilcken, Gnomon 10(1934) 446-8; E.G. Turner, Greek Papyri (Oxford 1968; 2nd ed, 1980) 25-33; E.G. Turner, Excavating in Egypt, ed. T.G. H. James (1982) 160-78; Tony Harrison, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (1990); “MWH” DBC, 2:484-5; Bernhard Palme, Brill, 303-4; “L. Lehnus, Bernard Pyne Grenfell e Arthur Surridge Hunt,” Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology ed. M. Capasso (2007) 115-41; L. Lehnus, “Editing the New Finds. Glimpse from the Correspondence of A.S. Hunt” in Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts, (2007) 247-55; R. Pintaudi “Grenfell-Hunt e la papirologia in Italia” QS 75 (2012)205-98; Todd Hickey, “Grenfell and Hunt in the Fayyûm: Two Letters to J. Gilbert Smyly,” BASP 54 (2017) 219-35.