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H. J . W O L F F , An Oxyrhynchus receipt for repayment of loans. P. Yale Inv. 1624. Trans. Am. Phil. Ass. L X X I ( 1 9 4 0 ) , p. 616.
P. Yale Inv. 1624 is a receipt issued on January 25 A.D. 203 for partial repayment of two loans. Both of the loans bore interest at the usual rate of twelve per cent per annum. Three quarters of the first loan and one half of the second loan were assigned to a third person by virtue of an arrangement contracted, with the consent of the debtors, between the third person and the creditor. T h e former claims the collection of the assigned sums. T h e receipt in agreement with a common practice for partial receipts, is drawn up in the private chirographic form.
H. G. G U N D E L , Kleine Beiträge zum römischen Heerwesen in Aegypten. P. Giss. Bibl. inv. 282 und 27. Giessen 1940.
T h e first papyrus of the 3rd cent. A.D. is of administrative character and deals with the distribution of barley to the cavalrymen of the Roman a r m y ; the second of 222-235 A.D. is a report to a centurio.
Ε. B A Y E R , Urkunden aus Soknopaiu Nesos. Aegyptus X X ( 1 9 4 0 ) , p. 299ff.
There are six documents published in this collection. № 1 (105 A . D . ) is an application for lease, № 2 (143 A . D . ) an άγραφη καμήλων, № 3 (154/155 A . D . ) , and 5 (205 A . D . ) receipts on taxes, № 4 (180 A . D . ) an application to the strategos by the applicant on his behalf and on behalf of his brothers of age, and of his sister under age, in an hereditary affair
(hereditatis petitio).
O. M O N T E V E C C H I , Dai papiri inediti della raccolta Milanese. Aegyp-tus, X X ( 1 9 4 0 ) , p. 39-42.
This is a continuation of the papyri published in Aegyptus X V ( 1 9 3 5 ) , p. 239-254. № 5 (108 A . D . ) is a notification of death of an άφήλιξ with
the usual formula: raytjvcu αντον iv τοις τίτΐλ(υτη(κόσι).
Η. С. Y O U T I E , New readings in Michigan Ostraca. Trans. Am. Phil. Ass. L X X I I ( 1 9 4 1 ) , p. 439.
T h e author publishes 1. a receipt for work on the embankments, 2. a receipt for three days on the embankments, 3. a receipt for the delivery of chaff, 4. another receipt for the delivery of chaff, 5. a list of liturgical workers, 6. a school exercise.
P A P Y R I O F T H E B Y Z A N T I N E P E R I O D
A. E. R. BOÀK, Early Byzantine papyri from the Cairo Museum. Etudes de papyrologie V ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 83ff.
S U R V E Y O F P A P Y R I 1 1 9
This is a continuation of the publication in Etudes III, Iff. of the texts originating from the archives of Aurelios Isidores in Karanis, now in the Cairo Museum. № 21-22 are petitions, № 23 a report of collections of chaff, № 24-27, 29, 30 receipts, № 28 a loan.
In the petition № 21 (296 A . D . ) to a deputy of the corrector a rule is quoted according to which dowries, recorded in written agreements, in order to be valid are to be evaluated by a goldsmith and a tailor. T h e papyrus mentions further a Sávuov secured by the means of ΰπάλλαγ/χα. It refers also to private arbitrators and stresses the importance of the written proof generally. № 22 (undated) is a hereditatis petitio directed to the strategos for the restoration of movable property which the defendant seized after the death of the plaintiff's father. T h e plaintiff's state that they have already approached the prostates of the village in this matter and that he has ordered the defendant to surrender to them the property in question, a command which he has so far ignored. № 28 (309 A . D . ) is a contract of delivery, № 29 (312 A . D . ) a receipt for the repayment of a loan under a verbal agreement. T h e original loan was made by the agent of the lender as his indirect representative. T h e lender issues the receipt with the approval of his agent. N° 24, and 25 (309 A . D . ) are receipts issued by two άποδόίται πιστικίον οτ'τιισσικίον to the sitologoi of Karanis. T h e term itself is a novum. № 27 (304 A . D . ) refers to a colonia partiaria with the husband as his wife's direct representative.
E. R. H A R D Y , A fragment of the works of the Abbot Isaias. Col. P. Inv. № 553. Université libre de Bruxelles. Annuaire de l' Institut de philologie et d' histoire orientales et slaves V I I (1939-1944), p. 127-140. T h e verso of this papyrus contains the conclusion of a deed of sale of land of the sixth cent. For some remarks on this document cf. Berger, supra p. 33-40.
W . C. T I L L , Eine Verkaufsurkunde aus Dshême. Bull. Soc. Arch. 1939, p.43-59. Copte 5 (not available).
T A B L E T S
H. A. S A N D E R S , The transcript of a lost tablet, Zeitschrift f. neutest. Wiss. X X X V I I ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 19Iff.
T h e transcript contains the appointment of a tutor pursuant to the provisions of the lex Julia et Titia and the S.C. for a Roman woman by the name Herennia Antonia, (cf. Taubenschlag, Law 131 note 2 1 ) .
