Rafał Taubenschlag
"The Oxyrhynchus Papyri", Part XIX,
E. Lobel [et al.], London 1948 :
[recenzja]
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 3, 179-180
SURVEY OF PAPYRI 1944-1949 179
Law I 283). № 16 ( I I I / I V cent. A.D.) and 17 ( I I I / I V cent. A.D.) are letters, 18 (140/141 A.D.) and 19 (III cent. A.D.) are ac-counts.
E. L O B E L , E. P. W E G E N E R , C. H. R O B E R T S and H. J. B E L L ,
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part X I X , London, Egypt Exploration Society 1948.
The edition contains new classical fragments ( № 2208—2222), extant classical authors (2223—2226) and documents of the Roman and Byzantine period.
№ 2 2 2 7 - 2 2 2 9 are official. № 2227 ( 2 1 5 - 1 6 A . D . ? ) is a letter of a prefect ( ?) where (v. 7) the verb πολέμαρχος is mentioned. This may have been a magistrate of Alexandria, or perhaps more likely, either of Antinoopolis or Hermopolis. № 2228 (283 A . D . ? ) contains copies of the correspondence of a strategus. In v. 32 we read: εν τφ βοολεϋτηρίφ: if the letter is really addressed to the senate of Oxyrhynchus, this is the first mention of a βοολεοτήριον at that city (cf. 1412 introd.) except 21105, ίο, where, however, the word is used as a synonym of the senate. Here it may well be used of the actual chamber. Among the declarations to officials, Oxy. 2230 (119 A.D.) is a declaration of the gild of cloth-dealers of Heracleo-polis to the strategus in answer to his inquiry, that they have valued two hundred blankets, which are to be delivered to the army. It is, however, not a mere declaration, for they state at the same time that they have received the price and have deli-vered the blankets. On the verso are portions of twp columns of a report of legal proceedings. O x y . 2331 (241 A.D.) is a notifica-tion of succession. Aurelia Thermuthion declares to the βιβλιοφϋ-λαχ ες, in order that they make the proper ζαράθεσις, that she is the legal heir of her daughter Techosis, who has died intestate; a translated copy of the agnitio bonorum possessionis will be submitted at the same time to prove her claims (11 13—30). It was already known that a special άπογραφή of an inheritance had to be made (cf. K r e l l e r , Erbr. Unters, pp 107 —19; m y Law I 171, 200), but the present document is the first instance of a παράθεσις of succession. № 2232 (316 A.D.) is a nomination to office of two collectors, addressed to the praepositus pagi. № 2233 (350 A.D.) is a declaration to the riparii: the chief of the irenarchs and two irenarchs had been ordered b y the riparii to produce the de-linquents and probably also to investigate the matter on the
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spot. This d o c u m e n t is m o s t p r o b a b l y their r e p o r t . № 2234 (31 A.D.) is a p e t i t i o n t o a c e n t u r i o n on d a m a g e a n d assault caused to t h e petitioner b y some f i s h e r m e n a n d a soldier. T h e p e t i t i o n e r who p a i d t a x e s , h a d fishing r i g h t s (cf. m y Law I I 79 f f ) . № 2235 (346 A.D.) is a p e t i t i o n t o t h e riparius, e n t e r e d b y Aurelius H o r u s on behalf of his grandchildren. T h e y h a v e inherited f r o m their fa-t h e r a piece of l a n d in fa-t h e fa-t e r r i fa-t o r y of fa-t h e village of A d a e u s b u fa-t now, illegally, t h e scribe of T e r y t h i s is t r y i n g t o force t h e m t o p a y t h e t a x e s on t h e land t o his village. I t will be noticed t h a t t h e p e t i t i o n e r invokes t h e old m o t i v e — t h e t h r e a t of άναχώρησις — t o s t r e n g h t e n his case, as well as a p e r h a p s more novel a p p e a l ad
misericordiam, p i t y for t h e o r p h a n children. № 2236 (early I I I
cent. A.D.) is a sale of a p a r t of a house, № 2237 (498 A.D.) a loan of m o n e y , № 2238 (551 A.D.) a deed of s u r e t y , addressed t o Me-nas, t h e overseer of t h e principal church of O x y r h y n c h u s , b y P h o e b a m m o n , Elias a n d P a n t a r o n . T h e y g u a r a n t e e t h e r e t u r n b y O n n o p h r i s of t h e gold stolen b y him a few d a y s before, a n d u n d e r t a k e t o p r o d u c e h i m w h e n r e q u i r e d . W e r e a d on O n n o p h r i s (v. 10) οίόν Ιΐαμουθίου γενομένου διακόνου μητρός Θέκλας 6ρμά}μενον και αυτόν [από του αϋ]του κτήματος και προ τούτου παραμένοντα αυτή έν τάξει δουλελευθ-έρου. T h e editors t r a n s l a t e t h e v. προ τούτου — δουλελευθέρου formerly serving you in the capacity of a freedman, w i t h reference t o Y e t t . Yal. 7, 8. I n m y j u d g e m e n t t h e v . δουλελεύ-θερος m e a n s a free man who serves as slave (liber homo serviens), cf. Strassb. 40 (569 A.D.) (v. 24) φαμιλιάριος εδραίος κατάδουλος παις (v. 30) εφ' φ αύτον παραμεΐναι κτλ. (cf. m y Law I 283is). I n v . 17 we r e a d a g a i n : παρειλήφαμεν èv τη φυλακή του νοσοκομίου της αυτής άγιας έκκληαίας. As t h e editors r e m a r k , t h e r e is no i m p r o b a b i l i t y in t h e supposition t h a t t h e hospital h a d its own prison (cf. on hospitals m y Law I I 57). № 2239 (598 A.D.) is a c o n t r a c t m a d e b y J e r e m i a s w i t h Γ1. J o h a n n e s , t h e owner of a large e s t a t e t h r o u g h Fl. J u l i u s , his s u p e r i n t e n d e n t a n d r e p r e s e n t a t i v e (cf. m y Law I 235). T h e d o c u m e n t is closely parallel t o O x y . 136 a n d 1894. J e r e m i a s styles himself επικείμενος a d d i n g t h a t he h a d p a i d his e n t r a n c e - f e e . № 2240—2244 are a c c o u n t s .
H . A. S A N D E R S , Latin papyri in the University of Michigan
Collection (Michigan P a p y r i vol. V I I ) A n n A r b o r 1947.
This collection contains 37 L a t i n p a p y r i , mostly of legal cha-r a c t e cha-r . № 167 (103 A.D.), № 168 (145 A.D.) a n d 436 (138 A.D.)
