SURVEY OF LITERATURE 317 This dissertation, although romanistic, will also interest t h e papyrologists, because t h e mercenarius (in his narrower sense) = a person who in a house n o t of his own accomplishes all services ordered b y t h e proprietor, shows a great a f f i n i t y w i t h t h e παρα-μονάριος a figure whom we f i n d now a n d again in t h e p a p y r i (cf. m y article JJP 7/8, 182 ff.).
THE LAW GOVERNING DOMESTIC RELATIONS
J . K l i m a , Su un'analogia babilonese del Sc. Macedoniano: Con-tribute alia storia delle limitazioni délia capacità giuridica (Studi in on. U. E. Paoli, 4 3 3 ^ 1 4 1 ) .
According t o t h e a u t h o r , CB § 14 a t t e m p t e d to lend m o n e y t o a mâr awîlim la zi-zu, to a slave (and respectively t o a person who h a d a potestas familiaris over b o t h of t h e m ) . H e p r o v e s t h a t this idea appeared l a t e r in other systems of law, especially in A t t i c a n d in E g y p t i a n laws, a n d t h a t a t last it f o u n d its precise f o r m u l a t i o n in t h e f a m o u s Sc. Macedonianum.
R . Y a r o n , Aramaic Marriage Contracts from Elephantine (Journ. Sem. Stud. 3 (1) [1958] 1—39).
I n t h i s dissertation t h e a u t h o r examines in detail t h e Aramaic marriage c o n t r a c t s published b y C o w l e y in Aramaic Papyri of the 5th Century B.C. (A.P.) a n d b y K r a e l i n g in Brooklyn Museum Aramaic Papyri (P. Brooklyn). He discusses t h e various clauses into which t h e c o n t r a c t s can be divided, a n d t h e n t u r n s to some characteristic phrases occurring in t h e m . Finally he examines their historical b a c k g r o u n d a n d t h e law reflected in t h e m .
T h e dissertation will also interest t h e papyrologists as t h e early Greco-Egyptian marriage c o n t r a c t s show various affinities t o t h e earlier A r a m a i c d o c u m e n t s (cf. p . 23, 24, 25).
J . M o d r z e j e w s k i , Le droit de famille dans les lettres privées grec-ques d'Egypte (JJP 9—10 [1956] 339—364).
J . M o d r z e j e w s k i , Note sur P. Strasb. 237: Une contribution au problème de Γαγραφος et έγγραφος γάμος (Eos 48 fasc. 3 = Sym-bolae R. Taubenschlag dedicatae I I I [1957] 139—154).
