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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
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decaprotes (cf. B G U . 579 and T h e a d . 26 and 2 7 ) , № 15.4 ( 4 / 5 t h cent. A . D . ) a letter concerning the case of an appointment of διάκων ( a n ec-clesiastical official, cf. Giss. 54, 101) as άτταιτ^ττ/ς άννωνψ π [ α ] ρ [ ά ] την
νομοθισίαν των βασιλέων (cf. С. T h . X V I , I I , 2, 9 on privileges of the
c h u r c h ) .
M . H O M B E R T and C . P R É A U X , Les papyrus de la Fondation
Egypto-logique Reine Elisabeth. Chronique d'Egypte № 27 ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 161-170;
№ 2 9 ( 1 9 4 0 ) , p. 134-149; N ° 30 ( 1 9 4 0 ) , p. 286-295.
T h e s e editions are a continuation of the former publication in C h r o n . d' E g . № 2 5 ( 1 9 3 8 ) , p. 139ff. and contain in the issue of 1939, Ε 7201 ( 5 2 3 A . D . ) , a contract of delivery, and Ε 7360a) ( 2 n d cent. A . D . ) a f r a g m e n t of a κατ' οικία ν απογραφή, in the issue of 1940 an account of the temple of Socnopaiou-Nesos of the 2nd cent. A . D . and receipts on taxes of the 2nd and 3 cent. A . D .
P . T O N D I , Papiri fiorentini mediti. Äegyptus X X ( 1940), p. 1-30. T h i s collection contains beside some not-legal papyri, in № 2 ( 8 2 / 9 6 A . D . ) a sale, in N ° 3 ( 5 t h cent. A . D . ) a barter, άντικαταλΚαγη, in N ° 4 ( 7 6 A . D . ) a typical form of lien in the national law, where the contract of loan and contract of sale are separated ( c f . Taubenschlag, Law 2 0 5 ) .
M . D A V I D , В. A . van G R O N I N G E N , J . С . van O V E N , The
Warren Papyri, L u g d u n i Batavorum, E . J . Brill 1941.
T h e 21 G r e e k papyri collected by the late E . P . W a r r e n had been entrusted f o r publication to A. S. H u n t , w h o edited nine of them before his lamented death in 1934. T h r o u g h the kind intercession of M r s . A . H u n t , H . J . Bell and M . Т . C . Skeat the collection was given to the Leyden Papyroiogical Institute by H . Asa T h o m a s , Esq., its new owner. T h e Institute undertook to publish it. T o the texts previously published, there was as a rule not much to be added or altered.
N ° 1 ( 1 6 4 or 165 A . D . ) is a d r a f t of a petition to L . Sillius Satrianus, already published by H u n t , Bull, de l'Inst, franc, d'Arch, orient, du Caire, X X X , 447 = SB. 7472. I n this d r a f t a previous petition is not only men-tioned but apparently transcribed in f u l l (1. I 6 f f . ) I t is necessary t o start f r o m the latter petition in order to try to explain the f o r m e r . M a r i n u s was involved in a quarrel concerning a νίστκ (1. 20, 32 cf. 1. 1 8 ) ;
ίξομοΚογησάμινος in 1. 21 seems to prove that it had been admitted or
acknowledged. A stratèges, perhaps even an epistrategos, has given a decision (11. 2 4 - 5 ) allowing the parties to refer to the higher resort, probably Satrianus himself. Consequently at a later date, viz. on December 2 4 t h (1. 2 7 ) , M a r i n u s has done something connected w i t h sowing (1. 2 7 ) . B u t
