Above all, Oxyrhynchus seemed to be a site where fragments of Christian literature might be expected of an earlier date than the fourth century, to which our oldest manuscripts of the New Testament belong ...
Grenfell brought out the report on the first seasons work within months of their return to Oxford; an account in full of over 150 selected items from the seasons finds followed the next year, as Part I of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri.