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to a f u n d t h e proceeds of which were destined for p e r p e t u a l servi-ces, civil personality. T h e e t e r n a l bodies — such as gods, r o y a l t y , cities, priests or m u m m i f i e r s — h a d t h e possibility to resort t o t h e r i g h t of p r o p e r t y over this f u n d in order t o establish the execution of t h e dispositions m a d e f o r e t e r n i t y . Therefore, t h e execution of these dispositions was accomplished in t h e u s u a l m a n n e r of obliga-tions imposed on t h e above mentioned bodies.
F . A. H o o p e r , Data from Kom Abou Billou of the Length of Life in Greco-Roman Egypt (Chron. d'Egypte X X X I , No. 62 [1956] 332—338).
According t o a s t u d y published in 1945 b y M. H o m b e r t a n d C. P r é a u x , t h e average age a t d e a t h for persons living in E g y p t during t h e Greco-Roman period was a b o u t t h i r t y - t w o years. Their e s t i m a t e was b a s e d on t h e s u r v e y of 813 ages o b t a i n e d f r o m f u n e -r a -r y insc-riptions a n d m u m m y t i c k e t s -r a n g i n g in d a t e f -r o m t h e 3d c e n t u r y B.C. T h e a u t h o r gives n e w m a t e r i a l corroborating for-mer f i n d i n g s .
E . L. K a z a k e v i t c h , Termin δοΰλος i poniatie 'rab' v Afinakh IV υ. do п.е. [= The Term δοϋλος and rhe Notion of 'Slave' in Athens in the IV cent, before our era] ( Vestnik Drevney Istorii 1956 No. 3, 119—136).
T h e a u t h o r investigates t h e t e r m δοϋλος a n d similar ones. T h i s interesting dissertation will b e also of use for p a p y r o l o g i s t s .
W . L. W e s t e r m a n n , Upon the Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Symbnlaa R. Taubenschlag dedicatae I = Eos 48, 1
[1956] 19—25).
I n this article t h e a u t h o r gives a short s u m m a r y of his work published p o s t h u m o u s l y : The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Anti-quity (The A m e r i c a n Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1955). T h e article was sent h v the late Professor W e s t e r m a n n in a u t u m n 1954.
R . M a r t i n i , Mercenarius. Contribute alio studio dei rapporti di la-voro in diritto romano (Studi Senesi 48/49 [1956/7] fasc. 3—4, p . 214—290).
