. Lumière de l'est antique; le Nouveau Testament illustré par des textes récemment découverts du monde Graeco-romain. ^a toi ? t[e-] pot ? A6t/*V^^O^T(»?^ À irpoa-KvTffia [deux limes Nearchus . . (À Helio-dorus) . ., salutation. Depuis plusieurs . . même untootake navire, qu'ils mayearearn sur les travaux madeby mens mains, j'ai doneafter ce genre et undertooka voyage et est venu à Soene et là où le Nil coule,* et à la Libye, où Ammon chante oraclesto tous les hommes, Et je learnedgoodly choses,^ et je carvedles noms de mes amis ^^ sur les temples pour une perpétualmemory, l'intercession . .était

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. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. ^a Toi? t[e-] pot? a6t/*V^^O^T(»?^ TO irpoa-KvvTffia [Two limes Nearchus . . (to Helio-dorus) . ., greeting. Since many . . even untotaking ship, that they maylearn about the works madeby mens hands, I have doneafter this sort and undertooka voyage up and came toSoene and there whence theNile flows out, * and to Libya, where Ammon sings oraclesto all men, and I learntgoodly things, ^ and I carvedthe names of my friends ^^ onthe temples for a perpetualmemory, the intercession . .washed out.^ HioS6po). Endorsed;I To Heliodorus. « 6freek Fcupyri in the BrUish Muievm (Vol. III.), London, 1907, No. 854(p. 206); facsimile, Plate 28, here reproduced by kind permission of theBritish Museum (Figure 22). The letter is assigned by the editors to the firstcentury; Grenfell and Hunt, as I was informed by Wiloken (letter, Leipzig, 13 October, 1907) would place it in the second century. Wilckens reading, confirmed by Grenfell and Hunt. * Ditto (omitting Kal). [For notes i to 11 see next page.. Fig. 22.—Letter from Nearchus, an Egyptian, to Heliodorus, 1st or 2nd cent. A.D. Papyrus fromEgypt. Now in the British Museum. By permission of the Museum authorities. [p. 162 ILLUSTRATED BY THE NEW TEXTS 163 This little fragment of a letter about travel is ofgreat interest to the historian of civilisation. It alsogives a good picture of the social piety which wasalready known to us from the assurances of mutualintercession in other papyrus letters. Nearchus ^does not neglect to pray for his friends at the seats ofgrace, and, as if to make his intercession permanent, he inscribes their names on the temple walls. The writer seems to be a man of the middle class, but his style, despite faint echoes of the book-language, is on the whole non-literary.^ Unfortunately nothing is known of the writers identity. As moreorerwe have no «xact data concerning the provenance of the papyras,

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