(In making this distribution list I have acted in conformity with the
terms of conversation with Prof. Campbell Bonner, representing Michigan,
and Mr. Garrett representing Princeton. As the papyri were so few in
number the British Museum has not asked for more than the two in which
it was specially interested and I understood also from Prof. Bonner
that the University of Michigan did not desire to claim a large share.
The higher cost of its selection is due to the superior average quality
of the papyri assigned to it, literary pieces being more numerous than
in the other allotments, and particularly to the price (£E15) which
I thought reasonable for the unusually extensive and interesting mathematical
fragments numbered II.6. The papyri as a whole prove to be exceptionally
moderate in price, and the first prices which I assigned to the better
single pieces added up to £E146 1/2 as against the actual total
payments of only £E124 (which includes £E2 paid for the railway
fares allowed the natives of Behneseh from whom lot I was purchased).
I therefore revised certain of the prices in each allotment, bringing
down the difference to £E10 and finally made the following deductions
from the totals so established, having regard, in the difference between
Oslo and Princeton on the one hand and Michigan and Columbia on the
other, to one or two pieces in their allotments with regard to which
I had been a little doubtful as to the pricing:- Oslo and Princeton
£E3 each, Michigan and Columbia £E2 each. In the following
lists an asterisk before a number indicates that the papyrus so marked
was not priced at all in reckoning the total cost. Literary pieces are
marked with an L.
Payment should in all cases be made to the Univesity of Michigan, which advanced
the money for the purchases.
H.I.B.
The last part of the document show what each institution paid and what they
received. Here is only a brief desciption:
|
Michigan |
Total Cost: £E40 |
|
|
Number of Pieces Obtained: 16 |
|
Columbia |
Total Cost: £E25 |
|
|
Number of Pieces Obtained: 23 |
|
Princeton |
Total Cost: £E24 |
|
|
Number of Pieces Obtained: 22 |
|
Oslo |
Total Cost: £E24 |
|
|
Number of Pieces Obtained: 27 |
|
British Museum |
Total Cost: £E11 |
|
|
Number of Pieces Obtained: 2 |
