Corpus of Letters of Oxyrhynchus (30 BC - AD 330)

This corpus of letters develops out of a thesis project to analyse the practice of private letter correspondence and human mobility in Roman Egypt, especially seasonal variations of temporal migration. It aims to include all currently published samples of papyri letters (in total 328), to my knowledge, with Oxyrhynchus registered as its provenance. This is achieved through an entry search on HGV and cross-referencing of texts named as letters in <i>Oxyrhynchus Papyri.</i>The excel book was divided into five sheets: the first four sheets are the list of letters from 30 BC - AD 100; AD 101 - 200; AD 201 - 300; and letters with dubious dating (samples which could only be dated between two centuries and have a much wider, possible chronological range), and include the papyrus no., date, name (and status, if available) of the correspondents. The final sheet, with references, calculated the number of dated letters, and which month they were produced. A note should be given that papyri publications continue to be updated each year, and the corpus collected is not definitive.本书信语料库源自一项学位论文研究项目，旨在分析罗马埃及时期的私人书信往来实践与人口流动情况，尤其是临时性移民的季节性波动规律。据笔者所知，本语料库旨在收录目前已发表的全部纸草书信（papyri letters）样本（共计328份），所有样本的出土地点均登记为奥克西林库斯（Oxyrhynchus）。本语料库通过在HGV数据库中进行条目检索，并对照《奥克西林库斯纸草集》（Oxyrhynchus Papyri）中标记为书信的文本完成收录。本Excel工作簿分为五个工作表：前四个工作表分别收录公元前30年至公元100年、公元101年至200年、公元201年至300年的书信列表，以及年代存疑的书信样本（即仅能确定年代跨度介于两个世纪之间、时间范围宽泛的样本），表格中包含纸草编号、书信年代、通信者姓名及可获取的身份信息。第五个工作表附带参考文献目录，统计了可确定年代的书信数量及其撰写月份。需说明的是，纸草文献的发表工作每年都在持续更新，因此本语料库并非最终定论版本。