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Oct 28. 1904
Dear Mr President,1
Very many thanks for
your letter of Sept. 10, which
was most satisfactory and
reassuring. We have accordingly
continued working at Part II
of the Tebtunis Papyri, and
propose to send the portion
which we shall have finished,
to the printers on Nov. 26th,
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unless we hear to the contrary.
If for any reason you do not
wish us to proceed with the
printing, would you kindly
cable before Nov. 26th?
On Nov. 28 Dr Hunt and I
leave for Egypt,2 where my
address is always Cairo
simply. We shall return during
April.
Recently we have identified
a good sized fragment of the Greek
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original of Dictys Cretensis de
bello Trojano,3 a rather interesting
discovery since he exists only in a
Latin translation and doubts have
been entertained about the existence
of a Greek orginal. A
considerable section in the volume
will be devoted to papyri
concerning the priests of Tebtunis,
about which German scholars
are already displaying a
good deal of interest,4 since the
new documents throw much
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light on some of the obscurest
questions of the organisation
and administration of the temples
in Roman times
2. The principal object of the journey was their fourth excavation season at Oxyrhynchus.
3. This papyrus was published as P.Tebt. II 268. For more on Dictys Cretensis, see here.
4. Presumably Walter Otto most of all, who was not able to consult P.Tebt. II for vol. 1 of his monumental Priester und Tempel im hellenistischen Ägypten, which appeared in 1905. Vol. 2 (1908) does make use of the new texts.