Abstract This article offers new readings and interpretations of P.Oxy. XVIII 2195, an account which belongs to the dossier of the Apiones and dates to 576/7. It focuses on how the account was drafted and shows that some problematic passages, also including alleged errors of calculation, can be interpreted as transcription errors of the scribe: he copied the entries and the grand totals out of a preceding draft based on single receipts, as shown by numerous misreadings and variations of the graphic style. In one case, this new perspective leads to a reconsideration of the role of the famous „evanescent” Fl. Strategios III, son of Apion III, within the management of the domus gloriosa before his father’s death.
Abstract This article provides an annotated re-publication of two legal papyri from the Aurelius Pachymios archive (Byzantine period), both of which are held in the collection of the Louvre. Together, they provide valuable insights into legal matters and material reality.
Abstract This article investigates the rate of the ennomion or annual pasture tax in Graeco- Roman Egypt, starting from an unrecognised bilingual ostracon archive with several Demotic pasture tax receipts, which suggest that the rate for the tax in Augustan Thebes was 8 obols per sheep. A review of the remaining available evidence shows that this rate may also have applied in other places and periods.
Abstract The article proposes new readings of BGU III 699, an account of daily wages related to construction work, and seeks to clarify the document’s internal structure. Textual analysis and a reconstruction of the wage data lead to the conclusion that the fragment records activities spanning four days.
Abstract As an article printed in Archiv 70, 2024, 370-378 shows, papyri can be found attached to clay or plaster amphora stoppers, usually blank scraps or fragments with useless ink traces. Here a demotic account recently found in this way is presented.
Abstract The two fragments labeled as PSI VII 849 (3rd century AD), from a papyrus codex, preserve texts relating to the fields of grammar and embryology. A new edition is presented here, based on autopsy, offering several new readings and restorations. Also studied are various aspects concerning the presumed provenance of the two fragments from mummy cartonnage, the presence of a scriptio inferior not identified in previous studies, and the possible provenance of the two fragments from a miscellaneous codex.
Abstract First edition of a list of properties from the Hermopolite nome. The papyrus is probably to be associated with Sarapion’s archive.
Abstract This paper offers a new reconstruction of PSI XV 1476, fr. 1, col. ii, aiming to demonstrate that the lost quotation of Sophocles in lines 2-4 could come from the lost play Aleadae, and could match with fr. 88 Radt, lines 6-7.
Abstract The papyrus fragments New York, Columbia University P. 337 and London, British Library Collection P. 2693r are dated to the Ptolemaic period and were edited as P.Col. IV119 and P.Lond. VII 2125 among the Zenon papyri. The editors of the Columbia fragment pointed to a dating “probably later than the Zenon correspondence” (p. 161), and Skeat in P.Lond. VII described the hand as “a small neat uncial”, thus questioning the early dating. Finally, both fragments are part of the same document from the second century BC, which contains the end of either a report or a petition. Its fourth line can be supplied with certainty and the text can be restored or improved in many ways.
Abstract This article presents the edition of three Greek prose fragments from the University of Michigan papyrus collection in Ann Arbor: P. Mich. inv. 5252c (Thucydides, III.57.3-4), 4312 (Plato, Respublica, I.334e), 4438e (Aeschines, In Timarchum, 6-8, 10-11).
Abstract This article presents a revised edition of BGU VI 1245 (3rd-2nd century BCE). Previously, the text was understood to be a petition submitted by two or more cleruchs seeking either a reduction of the taxes on their kleros or its exchange. However, the present re-examination suggests that the petitioners were more likely tenants who were obliged to cultivate a possibly confiscated kleros, parts of which were entirely unproductive. The petitioners warn that the collection of tax arrears levied on this unprofitable land would compel them to “strike” through anachoresis. In addition, four further Ptolemaic papyri, P.Tebt. III.1 712, P.Tebt. I 79, P.Tebt. I 102, and SB XXX 17728, are discussed, with specific passages examined and new readings proposed.
The Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria was completed and consecrated in 297 (Suda’s date) and not, as usually stated, in 282, under Ptolemy II (Eusebius’ date). Ptolemy and Berenike, called θεοὶ Σωτῆρες as early as 305/4, were the gods to whom Sostratos actually dedicated the building. This is confirmed by representations of Berenike as a young and living goddess (Aphrodite and Soteira), by the presence of Pyrrhus in Alexandria in 297 (Suda) and by Strabo who tells us who they were. The 282 date is a mistake caused by identifying the Saviour Gods as the Dioscuri rather than Ptolemy and Berenike.
The present study deals with fragments 45 and 46 K. of Euripides’ Alexandros. Detailed analysis, taking into account the new findings on fragments 46a and 62d, col.iii K. of the same drama, suggests that they do not belong to a conversation between the chorus leader and Hecabe after the parodos, but to a dialogue between Hecabe and Paris in front of the palace before the murderous attack on Paris. This dialogue is suddenly interrupted by Cassandra’s prophetic appearance and continues briefly after the seer’s departure until Hecabe enters the palace with Paris.
The large find of Syene papyri was acquired partly for London in 1907, partly for Munich almost two years later, but had previously been offered on the antiquities market for some time. Using contemporary documents and correspondence, the article reconstructs the history of the acquisition from the first known offer to the arrival of the restored pieces in Munich.
This paper presents editions of four papyri from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Three of the papyri come from the site of the monastery of Saint Apollo at Deir el-Bala'izah. All of the fragments are Christian and belong to around the sixth or seventh century. (1) MS Gr. liturg. f. 1 (P) is a hymn, preserved in complete form. (2) MS Gr. liturg. f. 3 (P) is a papyrus with a doxology and trisagion, the back of which seems to have been reused for cryptography. (3) MS Gr. th. e. 11 (P) is a small scrap with a trisagion. (4) MS Gr. liturg. g. 1 (P) belongs to a work of uncertain genre, perhaps a hymn.
This article presents new information about familial and social connections, gleaned from a partially preserved Greek-style testament in the papyrus collection of the University of Oslo Library. The will (P. Oslo inv. 1037+1178, TM 1001314) was drawn up at Ptolemais Euergetis, probably in the late second century CE. In light of the new information, we review the known evidence concerning two Arsinoite elite families with ties to Tebtunis, that of Sabeinos alias Ninnos and the family of the notary Achilleus, grandson of Lurius, in an attempt to connect hitherto unconnected pieces of evidence, expand the family trees, elucidate the relations between family members and better understand their activities and social network.
