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I . D. A m u s i η, Iz novykh rabot po papirologii = Neiv works on papyrology. Vestnik Drevney Istorii (= VDI), 1959, No. 2, p p . 192-203.
This is a detailed review of С.P. Jud. I a n d R . T a u b e n s c h l a g's, The Law2. I n the first part the reviewer highly praises the methodological and philological aspects of t h e Corpus a n d shows t h e values of t h e p a p y r i edited in this v o l u m e for t h e knowledge of t h e social a n d economic history of t h e Jewish p o p u l a t i o n in E g y p t . Resides his own notes a n d observations Mr A m u s i n quotes t h e propositions of S. J . L u r i e (contained in a l e t t e r to t h e reviewer) t o c o m p l e t e : C.P. Jud. I , 128, 10: ]ων αν έγύης μεθ-ήναι ( = μεθεΐναι?); 135, 6 : [άξε]σ&οα ; 141,8: καταλ[λά]ττιν.
I. D . A m u s i n, Arameyskiy kontrakt 134 g.n.e. iz okrestnostey Mertvogo moria. Drevniy mir. Sbornik statey ν chest' akademika V. V. S t r u ν e = An Ara-maic contract dated A.D. 134 from the environs of the Dead Sea. The Ancien-World. A collection of essays in honour of the academician V. V. Struve. Moscow, 1962, p p . 202-213.
Mr A m u s i n gives here a réédition, t h e Russian t r a n s l a t i o n a n d a detailed c o m m e n t a r y of t h e t e x t published in 1954 (cf. J . T . M i 1 i к . Un contrat juif de Van 134 après J. C. Revue biblique 61 (1954) p p . 182-190). T h e editor offers a v e r y i m p o r t a n t i m p r o v e m e n t in reading t h e last word in t h e 1.10: h w r or h r r . Consequently t h e corresponding f r a g m e n t of t h e c o n t r a c t m u s t be under-stood as a declaration of t h e seller t h a t t h e b u y e r is „ f r e e " or „ f r e e d " f r o m a n y possible vindicatio concerning a sold house. This e m e n d a t i o n p u t s aside a series of o f t e n c o n t r a d i c t o r y i n t e r p r e t a t i o n s of this d o c u m e n t , allowing for a h a r m o -nious a n d logical reconstruction of its c o n s t i t u e n t p a r t s . Mr Amusin d r a w s also parallels b e t w e e n this contract a n d corresponding papyrological a n d Tal-mudic materials. I n t h e light of these parallels it is clear t h a t legal p r a c t i c e a n d f o r m u l a e which were established in t h e N e a r E a s t a n d E g y p t in t h e V I I - V I centuries R.C. r e m a i n e d u n c h a n g e d .
W. G. R o r u k h o v i c h , Antichnye avtory о proizvodstve papirusa-bumagi ν Egipte. Uchenye zapiski Gorkovskogo Gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya
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istoriko-filologicheskaya. Vyp. 52 = The ancient authors on the production of the papyrus-paper in Egypt. The Scientific Memoirs of the Gorkiy State
University. Fasc. 52 (1962) pp. 407^22.
A Russian translation and analysis of respective texts. Special attention is given to the testimony of Pliny.
W. G. B o r u k h o v i c h , Papirusnye svidetelstva ob organizacii proizvodstva i prodaje charty ν Egiptie vremeni Ptolemeev. Problemy socialno-ekonomi-cheskoy istorii Drevnego mira. Sbornik pamyati akademika A. I. Tiume-neva = Papyrus-testimonies concerning the organization of the production and sale of charta in Egypt in the times of the Ptolemies. The problems of the social and economic history of the Ancient World. A collection of essays in memory of the academician A. I. Tiumenev. Moscow-Leningrad, 1963, pp. 271-287.
This work brings a short history of the papyrus-production in the pre-Ptolemaic times, followed by a detailed analysis of the data concerning the organization of the production and sale of the papyrus in Egypt under the Ptolemies. The author makes use of the documents from the Roman period. Special attention is devoted to the question of the exact meaning of the term χαρτηρά, which, more or less presumably, 'must be understood to denote a tax imposed on the consumer. This term could also mean the monopoly of selling royal charta. This monopoly as well as the collection of the τέλος χαρτών or χαρτηρά could be entrusted to the organization of tax-farmers. The monopoly of the sale of papyrus seems to be introduced by Ptolemy II. The main pro-duction rested in the hands of the State treasury and temples, but besides the royal workshops there could also exist private workshops, especially in the later times when the system of monopolies began to decline. In the Tebt. I, 5 the author suggests to complete the 1.172 as follows: και κηνοβο[σκούςJ κ[αί χαρτοποιού]ς και έλαιουργούς.
Μ. Α. D a n d a m a e ν, Kontrakty о sdache vnaem skota, prinadlejashchego satrapu Arshamu. Problemy socialno-ekonomicheskoy istorii Drevnego mira. Sbornik pamyati akademika, A. I. Tiumeneva = The lease contracts of cattle belonging to the satrap Arsham. The problems of the social and economic history of the Ancient World. A collection of essays in memory of the acade-mician A. I. Tiumenev, Moscow-Leningrad, 1963, pp. 127-149.
A translation and commentary of the three lease contracts of cattle be-longing to Arsham, the satrap of Egypt in the second half of the V-th century B.C. (UM 144, 146, 147). This essay gives valuable information on the deve-lopments in social and economic life and also on the social structure of the territories conquered by the Achaemenids pre-Ptolemaic Egypt including.
