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a p p e a r in each c e n t u i y f r o m the I I I u n t i l t h e I Y A.D.. Princi-pally t h e expression έπί ξένης is significant n o t as m u c h in the Ptole-maic era w h e n its examples are b u t few and n o t p a r t i c u l a r l y im-p o r t a n t b u r chiefly in the R o m a n era. I t is w o r t h t a k i n g into con-sideration the usual forms and the antithesis of this expression in order to elucidate its meaning: one t i m e t h e antithesis is the ίδια, t h e other t i m e the antithesis is m a d e between ξένη a n d ϊδιος τόπος. T h e conclusion is t h a t ξένη means an alien place b u t not a foreign one, w h a t means a place situated in some n o t so f a r a di-stance, f r o m t h e native one where e v e r y b o d y was inscribed. The a u t h o r assembles in t h e chronological order a detailed list of cases where t h e individuals are said to be έπί ξένης.
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M. A m e l o t t i , La posizione degli atleti di fronte al diritto romano (.SDHI X X I [1955] 124—156).
T h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o write this article was given b y a Florentine p a p y r u s published as P S I X I V 1422. I n this t e x t an athletes applies t o t h e emperor to be a p p o i n t e d in t h e E g y p t i a n a d m i n i s t r a t i o n as κήρυξ. T h e a u t h o r s examines t h e legal position of t h e athletai m a k i n g to a large e x t e n t use of t h e p a p y r i (SB 4244; B G U 1074; 1073; Lond. 1178).
J . F . G i l l i a m , The Roman Military Feriale (repr. f r o m t h e Harv. Theol. Rev. X L V I I , No. 3, 1954).
This article deals with three t h i n g s : f i r s t it discusses t h e pur-pose of t h e military Feriale when it was established, as it p r o b a b l y was, b y A u g u s t u s ; secondly — he considers the distribution of the occasions in t h e Feriale and hence t o some e x t e n t their value as breaks in t h e soldier's r o u t i n e ; finally he examines three sections of t h e t e x t which deserve close s t u d y .
Η . I . B e l l , Graeco-Egyptian Religion (Museum Helveticum X , fasc. 3/4, [1953] 222—237).
I n this essay consecrated to the history of Graeco-Egyptian religion one will f i n d m a n y r e m a r k s on questions which can
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r e s t j u r i s t s : p . 224 on racial a n d religious mixture, as is shown b v such a n a m e as t h a t of Hellenomemphites; p . 225 on t h e curse of Artemisia; p . 227 on SB 5022 which records the existence of a σύ-νοδος νεανίσκων έκ τοϋ Όσφιείου, a society which looks like an Egyp-t i a n a d a p Egyp-t a Egyp-t i o n or imiEgyp-taEgyp-tion of Egyp-the Greek e p h e b a Egyp-t e ; p . 229—230 — on intermarriage of b r o t h e r a n d sister.
S. R . K . G l a n v i l l e — T . C. S k e a t , Eponymous Priesthoods of Alexandria from 211 B.C. (J.E.A. 40 [1954] 45—58).
The a u t h o r s restrict their survey to Alexandria, beginning w i t h t h e year 211—210 B.C. in which P t o l e m y I V Philopator inaugu-r a t e d a new pinaugu-riesthood, the Athlophoinaugu-ros, in commemoinaugu-ration of his m o t h e r , t h e f a m o u s Berenike, whose m e m o r y has been more effectively inimortalized b y the p e n of Callimachus.
Η . I . B e l l , Cults and Creeds in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Liverpool 1953).
This volume consists of four public lectures delivered in t h e U n i v e r s i t y of Liverpool during F e b r u a r y 1952. Lecture I deals w i t h t h e P a g a n Amalgame, Lecture I I — with the Jews in E g y p t , I I I — the p r e p a r a t i o n for Christianity, I V — The Christian T r i u m p h . T h e most interesting lectures t o u c h also problems which are for t h e j u r i s t s of highest i m p o r t a n c e : p . 5 on t h e s.c. petition of Arte-misia ( U P Z No. 1). According to W i l c k e n ' s probable interpre-t a interpre-t i o n of interpre-t h e d o c u m e n interpre-t interpre-the wrong done b y interpre-the m a n interpre-to his dead d a u g h t e r consisted in pledging her m u m m y as security for a d e b t , on which he h a d defailed (cf. Law2 271). T h e v e r y words
Artemi-sia's recall those of t h e law as given b y H e r o d o t u s ; p . 5 on πολιτεύ-ματα, racial groups (lists given b y L e s q u i e r , Les institutions mi-litaires de VEgypte sous les Lagides p. 319—28; H e i c h e l h e i m , Die auswärtige Bevölkerung im Ptolomäerreich [Klio Beiheft 18] 1928); p . 22—3 on d y n a s t i e cults, t h e difference between the Egyp-t i a n and Egyp-the Greek culEgyp-ts of Egyp-t h e PEgyp-tolemies; p . 33 on loans beEgyp-tween Jews where no interest is charged; p . 34 on the manumission of a Jewess a n d her two children in consideration of a sum paid b y t h e synagogę (Oxy. I X 1205); p . 37 a discussion over the question whether the J e w s were members of t h e citizen body in Alexandria; p . 43 on the o a t h of a J e w b y t h e E m p e r o r T r a j a n n o t y f y i n g t h e
