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...SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "Aramaic Papyri from Assuan." Professor G. F. Moore. Semitic Museum, Room...
...report on the Semitic Museum, the Curator, Professor D. G. Lyon, announces the acquisition, besides other things, of a collection of Greek papyri from the Egypt Exploration Fund; of a number of Oriental coins, collected by the late Professor J. H. Thayer; of 80 coins from Palestine and Phoenicia; and of 125 Syraic manuscripts from the library of Professor G. R. Harris of England. Those manuscripts are finely bound and range over the whole period of Syraic literature and contain examples of all the great writers. This is probably the finest collection in private hands...
Several gifts have been received by the Museum during the past year. They include nineteen fragments of papyri with Greek inscriptions, from Egypt, dating from the early centuries of the Christian era, and a handsome Egyptian mummy case...
...Egyptian town, and the seven others came from various towns in the Fayum, a district west of the Nile valley. All of these fragments, with many more which have been found by the Egypt Exploration Fund, are described at some length in the publications of the Fund,--"The Oxyrhynchus Papyri," a work in two volumes by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt of Oxford, and "Fayum Towns and Their Papyri," by Grenfell, Hunt, and D. G. Hogarth also of Oxford...
...most interesting of these papyri is a fragment--marked 2211 in the collection--which Professor Blass attributes to Alcman. It contains seven hexameter lines, of remarkable beauty. A translation of the only four lines which are complete...