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πáyάρχοι of Thèbais and concerns the proceedings against fugitive καλαφάται who worked on κάραβοι (light ships).
No. 1241, 1242, 1246, 1247, 1248, 1259 are letters, published already in different publications.
P A P Y R I O F T H E R O M A N A N D B Y Z A N T I N E P E R I O D S E. G . T U R N E R , Catalogue of Greek and Latin papyri and Ostraca in
the possession of the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. T h e University Press, 1939.
T h e Greek papyri catalogued in this volume were presented to the University of Aberdeen by James Andrew Sandilands Grant, an alumnus of the University. T h e bulk of them comes from Dime, and there are only a few from other places in the Fayum. T h e Ostraca were presented to the University by M r . J. G . Tait and come from Elephantine.
№ 1-6 are theological fragments, 7-14 literary and near-literary texts, № 15-72 non-literary-texts, № 73-103 documentary ostraca, Nu 104-97 summary publications.
A m o n g the non-literary texts, № 15-50 are official documents. № 15 (3rd cent. A . D . ) is an edict of Severus and Caracalla relating to ζωγράφοι. It is worth recalling that all known instances of a tax on ζωγράφοι, what-soever its name (cf. Wallace, Taxation 2 2 2 / 3 ) are dated about 200 A . D .
(cf. Reil, Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Gewerbes im hell. Aegypten, 1 7 0 ) . It is not implausible that some questions concerned with the administration of the tax formed the content of the present edict. № 16 (134 A . D . ) an official circular letter shows that at least the most important members of the Egyptian priesthood were in principle immune from χωρικοί λΐΐτονργίαι in the first and early second centuries (cf. Oertel, Liturgie 3 8 2 / 3 ; Wilcken, Grundzüge 3 4 0 ) . № 17 (2nd cent. A . D . ) is a report of judicial proceed-ings probably of an actio tutelae. № 19 ( 2 / 3 r d cent. A . D . ) resembles closely P. Meyer, Jur. Pap. № 48 and refers to the execution of executional documents. № 149 (Hadrian's period) concerns the law-suit of Drusilla. № 130 is a Latin legal text. № 2 0 (2nd cent. A . D . ) is part of a declaration made by seventy-two persons who may be persons specially appointed to attend to the καταγωγή τον σίτου (cf. B G U . 1022) or members of a guild of donkey or camel drivers (cf. Oertel, Liturgie 120). They undertake to transport ( ? ) corn ( ? ) to harbours appointed, to attend to the loading of it on board ship, to obey the instructions ( ? ) of persons appointed by lot in each village, to supply the salaries of clerks described as ανθίνται and to pay a fine for contravention of their engagements. № 153 ( 1 6 2 / 3 A . D . ) is an απογραφή of unwater land. № 27 ( l / 2 n d cent. A . D . ) :з
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a tax-register probably for δόσκ. № 45 (141 A . D . ) is an application for lease of a monopoly. T h e phraseology of the papyrus bears a close re-semblance to that of P. Amh. 92 = W . Chr. 311.
№ 51 (2nd cent. A . D . ) contains references to transactions of the àpXi(pevs Αιγύπτου and the idiologos. T h e y may form part of. a petition or of a record of proceedings (υπομνηματισμοί). Line 11 ίδί]ων λόγων και άρχχρίων supplies additional confirmation for the theory that the office of ίδιοϊ λόγος and άρχιερευς remained separate until the end of the second century. № 174 ( 1 5 4 / 9 A . D . ) is the end of a petition addressed to the prefect Marcus Sempronius Liberalis. № 175 (139 A . D . ) is a petition pre-sumably to the epistrategos Julius Petronianus, № 176 ( 2 0 2 A . D . ) to the βασιλικός γραμματεύς concerning a wrongful appointment to the liturgy of πρεσβυτερία κώμης. № 53 ( 1 0 / 1 1 A . D . ) is a contract for a division of property, № 55 (reign of Hadrian) sale of an ass where the guarantee of title against eviction is missing, № 180 (4th cent. A . D . ) a mutilated contract of παραθήκη, № 56 (176 A . D . ) an antichresis, independent from the pledge on free persons in the shape of a loan (cf. Taubenschlag, Law 218 note 177), № 181 (Claud. N e r o ) a mutilated application for lease of an oil-factory (cf. also № 182, 183), № 57 (2nd cent. A . D . ) an application for sublease of palm and olive-trees «growing on public land, N ° 58 (3rd cent. A . D . ) locatio-conductio operarum with an artist, № 59 ( 4 / 5 t h cent. A . D . ) locatio-conductio operis with a teacher, № 61 ( 4 8 / 9 A . D . ) a Latin receipt, № 63-65 are private receipts for rents cf. also № 170.
If the restoration in № 149 ( 2 / 3 r d cent. A . D . ) is right, this supplies the first mention on papyrus of the praefectus montis Berenicidis, the evi-dence for which official was previously entirely epigraphical (cf. Lesquier, L'armée romaine ď Égypte 153). № 187 (2nd cent. A . D . ) is a fragment of the beginning of a letter. T h e writer and addressee are the same as those in B G U . 846, the famous "prodigal son" letter and this fragment is in the same hand (cf. Deissman, Light from the Ancient East, 4th ed. 156).
G . C O U S I N - J . S C H W A R T Z , Papyrus grecs de la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strassbourg. Bull, de la Faculté des lettres de Strass-bourg, X V I I année № 7, 1939.
These papyri are a continuation of the publication of the "Papyrus grecs de la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strassbourg." № 150
(3rd cent. A . D . ) is a petition addressed to a centurio by a mother, έκδίκου των τίκνων. № 151 (98-117 A . D . ) is a sale of a house in the usual form of a ομολογία, № 152 ( 2 9 8 / 9 A . D . ) an απογραφή of land of Diocletian's era (cf. Flor. 32b = , W . Chr. 2 2 8 ) , № 153 ( 2 6 2 / 3 A . D . ) a receipt by
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a tax-register probably for δόσ«. № 4 5 ( 1 4 1 A . D . ) is an application f o r lease of a monopoly. T h e phraseology of the papyrus bears a close re-semblance to t h a t of P . A m h . 92 = W . C h r . 311.N ° 51 ( 2 n d cent. A . D . ) contains references t o transactions of the àpXitpcvs Αιγύπτου and the idiologos. T h e y may form part of. a petition or of a record of proceedings (υπομνηματισμοί). L i n e 11 ίδί]ων λόγων και αρχαρίων supplies additional confirmation for the theory that the office of ίδιο? λόγος and άρχίίρΐυς remained separate until the end of the second century. N ° 174 ( 1 5 4 / 9 A . D . ) is the end of a petition addressed to the prefect M a r c u s Sempronius Liberalis. № 175 ( 1 3 9 A . D . ) is a petition pre-sumably to the epistrategos J u l i u s Petronianus, № 176 ( 2 0 2 A . D . ) t o the βασιλικό·: γραμματΐύς concerning a w r o n g f u l appointment to the liturgy of πρΐσβντίρία κωμψ. N ° 5 3 ( 1 0 / 1 1 A . D . ) is a contract for a division of property, № 55 (reign of H a d r i a n ) sale of an ass where the guarantee of title against eviction is missing, N ° 180 (4th cent. A . D . ) a mutilated contract of παραθηκη, № 56 ( 1 7 6 A . D . ) an antichresis, independent f r o m the pledge on free persons in the shape of a loan (cf. Taubenschlag, Law 218 note 1 7 7 ) , № 181 ( C l a u d . N e r o ) a mutilated application for lease of an oil-factory (cf. also № 182, 183), № 57 ( 2 n d cent. A . D . ) an application f o r sublease of palm and olive-trees .^growing on public land, № 58 ( 3 r d cent. A . D . ) locatio-conductio operarum with an artist, № 59
( 4 / 5 t h cent. A . D . ) locatio-conductio operis with a teacher, № 61 ( 4 8 / 9 A . D . ) a L a t i n receipt, № 63-65 are private receipts for rents cf. also № 170.
If the restoration in № 149 ( 2 / 3 r d cent. A . D . ) is right, this supplies the first mention on papyrus of the praefectus montis Berenicidis, the evi-dence for which official was previously entirely epigraphical (cf. Lesquier, L'armée romaine d' Égypte 1 5 3 ) . № 187 ( 2 n d cent. A . D . ) is a f r a g m e n t of the beginning of a letter. T h e writer and addressee are the same as those in B G U . 846, the famous "prodigal son" letter and this f r a g m e n t is in the same hand (cf. Deissman, Light from the Ancient East, 4th ed. 1 5 6 ) .
G . C O U S I N - J . S C H W A R T Z , Papyrus grecs de la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strassbourg. Bull, de la Faculté des lettres de Strass-bourg, X V I I année № 7, 1939.
T h e s e papyri are a continuation of the publication of the " P a p y r u s grecs de la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strassbourg." № 150
( 3 r d cent. A . D . ) is a petition addressed to a centurio by a mother, ÍKSÍKOV
των τίκνων. N ° 151 (98-117 A . D . ) is a sale of a house in the usual form of a ομολογία, № 152 ( 2 9 8 / 9 A . D . ) an απογραφή of land of Diocletian's era (cf. F l o r . 32b =fW . C h r . 2 2 8 ) , № 153 ( 2 6 2 / 3 A . D . ) a receipt by
