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p o r a r y w i t h t h e e v e n t s t h e y describe. If t h e y do belong t o t h e A c t a l i t e r a t u r e , t h e y s u p p l y a concrete e x a m p l e t h a t t h e A c t a Alexan-d r i n o r u m were originally w r i t t e n a t t h e same t i m e as t h e e v e n t s t h e y describe (such was t h e s u p p o s i t i o n of H . M u s u r i 11 о). A n d e v e n if t h e y do not belong t o this class of l i t e r a t u r e , t h e y m i g h t still h a v e f o r m e d a model f o r t h e m in spite of t h e difference of t o n e (the A c t a are always antiimperial).

No. 2436, a m o n o d y w i t h musical n o t a t i o n , is published j o i n t l v b y E . G. T u r n e r , who gives t h e t r a n s r c i p t i o n a n d account of t h e t e x t , a n d b y R . P . W i n n i n g t o n - I n g r a m , who gives t h e a c c o u n t of t h e music. F r o m t h e t e x t of t h e early second c e n t u r y only t h e second c o l u m n is b e t t e r p r e s e r v e d . I t c o n t a i n s a m o n o d y addressed t o a chorus which is b i d d e n t o d a n c e . T h e editor supposes t h a t we h a v e here a pre-Hellenistic lyric, p r o b a b l y a lyric f r o m a s a t y r - p l a y . I t seems t h a t t h e t e x t is classic b u t t h e music t h a t of a l a t e r epoch, a n d so t h e p a p y r u s is p e r h a p s p a r t of a book of e x t r a c t s for singing (like t h e Oslo P a p y r u s published Symbolae Osloenses X X X I , 1—87).

T h e last t e x t in this v o l u m e , No. 2437, is a small f r a g m e n t of Callimachus, Hecale, s u p p l e m e n t i n g P . O x y 2217 a n d 2398.

Those t w o n e w v o l u m e s are a w o r t h y c o n t i n u a t i o n of t h e long series of t h e O x y r h y n c h u s P a p y r i . T h e scholars are g r e a t l y i n d e b t e d t o t h e editors for p r e p a r i n g so p r o m o p t l y this splendid publication a c c o m p a n i e d b y p e n e t r a t i n g c o m m e n t a r i e s a n d excellent p l a t e s . [A.

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P . M. F r a s e r , A Ptolemaic Inscription from Thera (The Jour-nal of Egyptian Archeology vol. 44 (1958) p p . 99—100). T h e a u t h o r publishes t h e p r e a m b l e of a decree of t h e n o r m a l honorific t y p e e n g r a v e d on t h e u p p e r p a r t of a stele of grey m a r b l e belonging t o t h e M u s e u m in T h e r a , a n d expresses opinion t h a t t h i s inscription m a y be assigned t o t h e t i m e s of P h i l o p a t o r or E p i p h a n e s . [C. K . ]

PAPYRI FROM ROMAN PERIOD

E m i l K i e s s l i n g , Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägyp-ten (VI B d . H e f t 1 (1958), H e f t 2 (1960).

The f i r s t a n d second p a r t s of v o l u m e 6 c o n t a i n 327 d o c u m e n t s (Nos 8964—9290). T h e one t h i r d of t h e m c o n t a i n s t h e p a p y r i t h a t