"Decret d'amnistie de Ptolémée Evergète II et lettre aux forces armées de Chypre", M. Th. Lenger, "Bull. de Corresp. Hell.", LXXX, 1956 : [recenzja]

SURVEY OF LITERATURE

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C. P r é a u x , Les ostraca grecs ďépoque romaine de la Bibliothèque

Bodléenne à Oxford (Akten des VIII. Intern. Kongresses f .

Papy-rologie = Mitteil, aus der Papyrussammlung der öst.

National-bibliothek [P.E.R.] У. Folge [1956] 103—111).

See JJP 9—10 (1956) 586—7.

H. M u s u r i l l o S. J., Early Christian Economy: A Reconsideration

of P. Amherst 3 (a) = Wilcken, Chrest. 126 (Chron. d'Egypte

XXXI, No. 61 [1956] 124—134).

A re-examination of P. Amh. 3(a) suggests certain economic

ties between Christian communities during the comparatively

peaceful period when Maximus was bishop of Alexandria (264-282

A.D.). Though it is difficult to determine the exact relationship

between the unnamed writer of the letter (who is undoubtedly an

Arsinoite writing from Rome), and the Alexandrian chancery, it

is perhaps the soundest view to understand that the Bishop and

his assistant were acting merely as depositaries for the sums of

money being disposed of by the writer. Apart from the question

of possible profit to the parties concerned, the arrangement of

turning the money into goods with subsequent resale is perhaps

simply for safety and convenience without further significance.

E. L e v y , Zur quellengeschichtlichen Bedeutung der Leidener

Paulus-Sentenzen (Pauli Sententiarum Fragmentům Leidense [Cod.

Leid. B.P.L. 2589] ediderunt et commentariis instruxerunt

G. G. A r c h i — M. D a v i d — Ε. L e v y — R. M a r i c h a l —

H. L. W. Nelson, in: Studia Gaiana, ed. M. David & J . C. van

Oven, vol. IV [Leiden 1956] p. 62—78).

This remarkable work deals with the following matters: 1. The

question of connection with the Sentences of Paulus, 2. their

rela-tionship to the later tradition, 3. Real increase of our knowledge,

4. The law of repetundae, 5. The physiognomy of the author of the

sentences, 6. The quality of the discovery.

M. Th. Len g er, Decret d'amnistie de Ptolémée Evergète II et lettre

aux forces armées de Chypre (Bull, de Corresp. Hell. LXXX [1956]

I. 437—451).

298 R. TAUBENSCHLAG

The inscription which is the subject of this study is not unknown. Its discoverer T. B. M i t f o r d submitted it to the attention of the members of the Vth International Congress of Papyrology at Oxford in 1937 and published the next year in the Congress Acts.

The study of Miss Len g er consists first of all of the réédition of the inscription with a commentary, composed of two parts: of a general introduction in which the author examines the questions concerning history, law and diplomacy, connected with the whole document and of a detailed commentary in which she discusses minutely the text and analyzes the contents of its dispositions. Generally, the author tries to establish the most probable sense of the inscription, and its importance for our knowledge of the Ptolemaic legislation.

H. G. Gundel, Bibliothek der Justus Liebig-Hochschule (vormals Universitätsbibliothek) Giessen: Kurzberichte aus den Papyrus-sammlungen 1—3 (1956).

The first of these booklets is a report on the VIII Internatio-nal Congress of Papyrology with regard to the collection of papyri in Giessen. The second gives information on this collection, with bibliographical notes. The third — contains the author's observa-tions concerning the catalogue of the Papyri Bibliothecae Univer-sitatis Gissensis.

M. D a v i d — B. A. v a n G r o n i n g e n — Ε. Kiessling, Berichti-gungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten. III Bd.,

1 Heft (P. Aberd. — P. Ryl. 2, 192b) (Leiden, Brill 1956) 160 pp. The new volume of the BL., after the death of Preisigke and B i l a b e l being continued by the three above mentioned editors, de erves the same appreciation as that of their predecessors. The work is absolutely necessary for every papyrologist. It is desirable that the 2nd part of the ΠΙ volume should appear as soon as possible. M. D a v i d , Ein Beitrag zu P. Col. 123, 13—17 (Symbolae R.

Tau-benschlag dedicatae = Eos 48, 1 [1956] 191—195).

In this article the author examines the transcription of P. Col. 123, 13—17 by W e s t e r m a n n and Schiller, and offers a