On an extended visit to Achmim in 1968 to study the Coptic Church and its liturgy, our Duke University colleague Professor O.S. Wintermute became acquainted with a local merchant, who eventually showed him some papyri that he said he had unearthed in his garden. Those he would part with Wintermute acquired and on his return donated to the Duke University Li brary, sixteen fragments altogether of which nine are in hands of the lli or IV century and were later seen to.derive from the archive of Ammon Scholasti cus of Panopolis. Since all were fragmentary, though one was large (P. Duke inv. 18),...