Abstract
The early astronomical papyrus P. Hib. i 27, dated c. 300 B.C., offers an illustration of the Greek alphabetical notation for integers and fractions. Since it seems to have been ignored by historians of mathematics, it is described and some of its arithmetical features are analyzed.
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