Abstract This paper proposes two textual emendations to Menander, Aspis 450 and 453. At line 450, the transmitted reading τοις should be corrected to πῶς. At line 453, fresh arguments are adduced in support of π]υκνόν.
Abstract This article presents an edition of P. Alex. inv. 344, a second-century papyrus fragment containing remnants of Herodotus, II, 113.2-3 and 114.2. First identified as such by O. Bouquiaux-Simon in 1991, this fragment from the Graeco-Roman Museum (Alexandria) has since remained unpublished. An analysis of its layout, palaeography and content demonstrates that P. Alex. inv. 344 belonged to the same roll as P.Ryl. I 55 (or, at the very least, to the same editorial project).
Abstract Fragments 2 and 3 of P.Oxy. 3001 join to form one fragment containing twelve hexameter line-ends, six of which are taken verbatim or slightly adapted from the Homeric epics in line with the mechanical nature of cento composition. This additional context permits a re-evaluation of the cento’s contents.
Abstract This paper provides a full edition of P. Berol. 16145, an oracle question regarding nose-related health issues, which was transcribed in the excavation diary, but is still in need of a proper evaluation. An up-to-date list of all the oracle questions found in Soknopaiou Nesos is also included. A palaeographical analysis shows that the papyrus is written by the same scribe as SB XVIII 14046.
Abstract Two descripta, P.Hib. I 130 and P.Oxy. VI 968, which were transferred in 1909 by the Egypt Exploration Fund to St Deiniol’s Library (now Gladstone’s) in Hawarden, Wales, are fully published here for the first time. The first text belongs to the small archive of Ptolemaios, probably a phylakites active in the mid-third century BCE, and involved, among other things, in the collection of taxes on state-controlled pastureland. The second text is a will from Oxyrhynchos, likely dating to the early second century CE, drawn up by a woman named Didyme. She had probably recently entered a second marriage, making it necessary to regulate the division of her estate between her son from the first marriage and any hypothetical children from the second union.
Abstract Edition of a Ptolemaic papyrus fragment kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (inv. MS Gr. class. g. 72 [P]), coming from a cartonnage found at Hibeh, and purchased from B.P. Grenfell in 1896. It contains (parts of) a glossary, to be assigned to the second half of the 3rd c. BC on paleographic grounds. Beyond its antiquity, it is peculiar both for the text it contains and for its physical and graphic characteristics: it is the only extant glossary which also discusses some words used by Aristophanes, and it is written in red inks, across the fibers on both sides.
Abstract This paper offers a new critical edition of the two medical prescriptions from P.Hib. II 192 →, dated by the first editors between 270 and 250 BC. After placing the papyrus, extracted from a cartonnage, in its archaeological and historical context, we offer a paleographic examination of P.Hib. II 192, as well as an analysis of the contents and structure of the two prescriptions, highlighting their formal and pharmacological similarities. This study identifies the first prescription as a dermatological remedy for the treatment of wounds caused by venomous animal bites, while the second, explicitly devoted to the preparation of pessaries, is part of the gynecological tradition.
Abstract Four Coptic ostraca from Western Thebes, first described by W.E. Crum, are published here in full and are stored in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The first ostracon contains three magic squares. The second bears a hymn in Greek on the recto, and a Coptic greeting formula on the verso. The third contains Psalm 21:24b-30. The fourth includes a letter opening, greeting, and ending formulas.
Abstract New readings and interpretations of a document ( II ) and deluxe horoscope ( I , III ) on the front and back of P. Paris N 2342 bis (P.Paris 19 bis). The document belongs to the “Theban tax roll,” most of which is in the British Library (P.Lond. I 109A [SB XIV 11704] + 119), and the horoscope contains excerpts from an astrological treatise on interpretation of the celestial positions, in addition to the usual data.
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.
