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
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lation of this passage which runs: "Although you recfuest without right that the sale of hypothecated properties be rescinded, ne-vertheless the prefect of the province will order that you recover possession of the plots seized by force without agreement".
V. A r a n g i o - R u i z , Minima de negotiis (Studi in on. U. E. Paoli, 1 - 9 ) .
This interesting study contains a critical examination of some documents included in the first edition of Negotia and others to be inserted in the new edition of the work.
Y. A r a n g i o - R u i z , Apokrimata — Decisions of Septimius Seve-rus on Legal Matters etc. (Gnomon 28 [1956] 186—192).
This article is an excellent survey of P. Col. 128. The author discusses many important legal problems raised by the edition of Apokrimata.
I. D. A m u s i n , Ad P. Lond 1912 (JJP 9—10 [1956] 169—209).
W. Wodke, Ein bisher nicht erkannter Staphanustext PSI 55. As ZSS 74, 523 informs — the text will be published in "Er-langen Beiträge".
Ε. Seidl, Neue klassische Konstitutionen aus den Papyri (Studi in on. A. Calderini — R. Paribeni II [1957] 307—315).
The article shows that the rescript in P. Col. 123 § 5 extended the Sc. Velleianum, and P. Col. 123 § 12 — the lex Plaetoria et in integrum restitutio (cf. my Law2 149, 18017_18 and my Rezeption des
тот. Pr. [Studi Bonfante I, 392144]) to the peregrines in Egypt
be-fore the C.A. The rescripts in § § 9 , 10, 2, and 4 applied, however, constitutions, which had been obligatory for the whole Empire since its very beginning.
H. G. Gundel, Kurzberichte aus den Papyrussammlungen 4 (Uni-versitäts-Bibliothek Giessen 1957).
