"Alexandrinische Geronten vor Kaiser Gaius", Α. V. Premerstein, Giessen 1939 : [recenzja]

SURVEY OF PAPYRI

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general sentence, probably a Biblical quotation, in Latin, then the greeting

followed by another Biblical quotation urging the duty and the benefits

of charity, then in each case the theme of the letter is introduced with διό.

W i t h the address the writer returns to Latin.

№ 2198--2207 are minor documents of the Roman and Byzantine

periods.

Oxy. 2198 (2nd cent. A . D . ) is a fragment of official correspondence;

probably a letter of a strategos to a higher official. H e announces that a

debtor to whom he had to hand over a διαστολικοί/ is not to be found. №

2199 (2nd cent. A . D . ) is a petition the subject of which is a dispute

concerning the inheritance of a Roman citizen, perhaps a soldier. № 2200

(early second cent. A . D . ) alludes to a visit of the prefect to Coptos at the

date of the letter ; the prefect may be Petronius Mamertinus, w h o is known

to have held a conventus at Coptos in 134 A . D . № 2202 (592 A . D . ) is

probably an agreement to make supplies to the "divine house" of the same

type as № 1896. It is the earliest document in which Flavius Apion I I I

appears as sole-owner. It is remarkable that the Emperor Maurice is

called vtos Ίιβίριοτ: there is no parallel to this in the papyri. № 2203 is a

concluding portion of a deed of surety (cf. Oxy. 135, 996, 1979 and

PSI. 6 1 ) .

P A P Y R I O F T H E R O M A N P E R I O D

G . R O S E N B E R G E R , Griechische V erwaltungsurkunden von Tebtynis

aus dem dritten Jahrhundert n. Chr.

Mitteilungen aus der

Papyrussamm-lung der Giessener Universitätsbibliothek V I , Giessen, 1939.

T h e seven texts published in this edition come from Tebtunis and refer

to the fiscal administration. № 47 and 48 are receipts on taxes paid to

μισθωτοί ιερατικών ωνών Ύιβτννιως και των σνγκνρονσων κωμων.

№ 49 and

51 are two copies of an inventory of corn, in the magazine of the sitologoi

at the end of the month Paupi in 221 A . D . № 50 is a report of the

sitologos concerning the receipts of one day. № 52 refers to not inundated

land. № . 53 is an oath taken by r-eSiοφνλακκ from Tebtynis and their

partners.

Α . V . P R E M E R S T E I N , Alexandrinische Geronten vor Kaiser Gaius.

Ein neues Bruchstück der sogenannten Alexandrinischen Märtyrerakten.

P. Bibl. Univ. Giss. 46. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der

Giessener Universitätsbibliothek V , Giessen 1939.

T h e papyrus comes from the 2 / 3 r d cent. A . D . and is important due to

new light it throws on the constitution of Alexandria and its population.

For jurists the trial before the Emperor is interesting. T h e Alexandrians

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J O U R N A L O F P A P Y R O L O G Y

elected in an assembly of citizens, a ytpovala, before they o b t a i n e d the

E m p e r o r ' s consent. A certain Isidores claimed t h a t the election w a s

against the l a w , b u t he himself w a s u n m a s k e d as a "false accuser" as he

pretended t o be an A l e x a n d r i a n c i t i z e n w h i c h w a s n o t the case as o n l y

a n A l e x a n d r i a n citizen c o u l d institute an accusation in an. i n t e r n a l affair

of the ηόλις. T h e accuser w a s f o u n d g u i l t y a n d punished, so it seems, by

s t i g m a t i z i n g or fire-death.

H . A . S A N D E R S , A Soldier s Marriage certificate in Diploma Form.

P r o c . A m . P h i l o s o p h . Soc., L X X X I ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 581ff.

T h i s d o c u m e n t , a papyrus f r a g m e n t f r o m the U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n ,

E x c a v a t i o n at K a r a n i s , is dated in the second cent. A . D . I n f o r m a n d

a r r a n g e m e n t of text a n d signatures it is a p a r a l l e l to M i c h . I n v . 508-2217.

T h e m a r r i a g e contract of a soldier at this early date is i m p o r t a n t for

this m u c h discussed p r o b l e m since it indicates t h a t the chief object m a y

w e l l have been the a t t a i n m e n t of R o m a n citizenship by the w i f e a n d

c h i l d r e n u p o n the h o n o r a b l e discharge of the soldier.

T h e f r a g m e n t a r y signatures of seven witnesses seemingly R o m a n

citizens, b u t w r i t t e n in G r e e k appear on the back of the d o c u m e n t .

H . I . B E L L , Registration of a chirograph of sale, P. Harr. 143, J . E . A . ,

X X V ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 52ff.

T h e p a p y r u s p r o b a b l y of the t i m e of D i o c l e t i a n , is an « μ α ρ τ ύ ρ η σ α of a

c h i r o g r a p h of sale, like O x y . 1208, 1562, fortified w i t h a καθάπιρ iy Βίκψ

clause. T h e f o r m u l a however, differs in some degree f r o m those in the

t w o p a r a l l e l d o c u m e n t s .

S. L . W A L L A C E , Receipts for φόρος προβάτων in the papyrus collection of

the University of Wisconsin. J . E . A . , X X V ( 1 9 3 9 ) , p. 62ff.

T h e receipts here published are the o n l y ones extant f r o m the second

c e n t u r y A . D . in w h i c h the rent of sheep (φόρος προβάτων) is paid by the

same i n d i v i d u a l in successive years. T h e p a p y r u s whose inventory n u m b e r

is P . W i s c o n s i n 30, bears at least f o u r receipts for payments άπο φόρου

προβάτων Μαικηνατίανης ουσίας at E u p h e m e r i a in the A r s i n o i t e n o m e in 1 5 6 / 7

or before, in 1 5 7 / 8 , 1 5 8 / 9 a n d 161 A . D . T h e papyrus is especially

interest-ing, because the receipts record p a y m e n t s m a d e in the years i m m e d i a t e l y

before a n d after the απογραφή προβάτων και αιγών f r o m t h e same v i l l a g e of

E u p h e m e r i a a n d dated 1 5 9 / 6 0 A . D . w h i c h was published by P . M e y e r as

H a m b . 34.

H . С . Y O U T I E a n d Ο . M . P E A R L , Tax Rolls from Karanis, P a r t I I

T e x t a n d Indexes. M i c h i g a n P a p y r i , vol. I V , part I I , A n n A r b o r . T h e

U n i v e r s i t y of M i c h i g a n Press, 1939.