Introduction

About this exhibition / photos from the opening

• Greek Papyri and Oxyrhynchus: feature by John Rea
• Oxyrynchus fish
• Map of Egypt, with local gossip
• B. P. Grenfell: ‘off to that beastly Egypt now, worse luck’
• A. S. Hunt
• View of Oxyrhynchus, 1798: Denon
• View of Oxyrhynchus, 1903: G & H
• View of Oxyrhynchus, 1981
• Draft plan of Oxyrhynchus: G & H
• Revised plan: G & H
• The ‘Logia papyrus’: Sayings of Jesus
• Part I of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri
• G & H outside their tent
• Hunt’s ‘shopping list’: ‘Revolver, Bottle Ammonia...’
• Grenfell’s cigarette invoice
• First season EEF excavation report
• Excavation notebook from second season

The Site