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

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

. Hunt was born in

Romford Romford is a large town in east London and the administrative centre of the London Borough of Havering. It is located northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. Historically, Romford ...

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, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with

Bernard Grenfell Bernard Pyne Grenfell FBA (16 December 1869 – 18 May 1926) was an English scientist and Egyptologist. Life Grenfell was the son of John Granville Grenfell FGS and Alice Grenfell. He was born in Birmingham and brought up and educated at Clif ...

, recovered many

papyri Papyrus ( ) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, ''Cyperus papyrus'', a wetland sedge. ''Papyrus'' (plural: ''papyri'') can also refer to a d ...

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 (, mo ...

. He worked with

Campbell Cowan Edgar Campbell Cowan Edgar (26 December 1870–10 May 1938) was a Scottish Egyptologist, classical archaeologist and papyrologist. He is especially noted for his work with A. S. Hunt on translating the Zenon Papyri. Between 1925 and 1927 he served as t ...

on a translation of the Zenon Papyri from the original

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and

Demotic Demotic may refer to: * Demotic Greek, the modern vernacular form of the Greek language * Demotic (Egyptian), an ancient Egyptian script and version of the language * Chữ Nôm, the demotic script for writing Vietnamese See also * * Demos (disa ...

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.

Sources

Author and Book Info.com

Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum

Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum

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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.
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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 {{UK-archaeologist-stub