Rafał Taubenschlag
"Late Byzantine Land-Leases from
Hermopolis", H. Zilliacus, "Societas
Scientiarum Fennica.
Commentationes Humanarum
Litterarum", XIV, 1947, 3 : [recenzja]
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 3, 192
192 JOURNAL OF PAPYROLOGY
concluded b y t h e d a u g h t e r of P h i l e m o n a n d T h e k l a w i t h a ctertain Herakleides, which designates itself προκιμαία Ομολογία a n d con-cerns a gift f r o m t h e h u s b a n d , a donatio propter nuptias (cf. m y
Law I 96). T h e second p a p y r u s is a sale of a p a r t of a house a n d
resembles t h e sales in SB 5112—5114. W e f i n d here t h e f o r m u l a (v. 19) [iíjícf. ημών πίστει καί βεβαιώσει εκουσί^ γνώμη κ[α]ί αυθαιρετώ προαιρέσει oíya δόλο[υ] και φόβ[ο]υ και [βίας] και άπατης και ανάγκης τίνος πεπρακέναι υμιν καί καταγεγραφηκέναι και παρακεχωρηκέναι (cf. m y Law I 247/8); (v. 32) t h e ot καλώς κείμενοι νόμοι (cf. C P R 30, I I , 24) a n d in v. 39 an o a t h (see B e l l , An Oath Formula of the
Arab Period in Egypt. Byz Z. X X I I , (1913), 392 f f , a n d t h e ed.
p. 93). T h e t h i r d d o c u m e n t calls itself stipulatio Aquiliana (cf. m y
Law I 307, 322) (v. 3) την παρουσαν Άκυλιανήν καί περιεκτικήν
άμεριμνείαν (cf. L o n d . 1008, 4 ; Mon 7, 43). .
Η . Z I L L I A C U S , Late Byzantine Land-Leases from Hermopolis
(So-cietas Scientiarum Fennica. Commentationes Humanarum Littera-rum X I V , 3) (1947).
T h e edition contains t h r e e leases f r o m Hermopolis Magna ( P . Berl. I n v . Nos 16048, 16050 a n d 16055) w r i t t e n in t h e y e a r s 565, 579 a n d 589 respectively. I n connection with t h e delivery of r e n t , t h e lessee in all of t h e t h r e e c o n t r a c t s engages t o p a y λόγφ συν-ήθειας a c e r t a i n q u a l i t y of other t h i n g s (milk, beans, etc.). Berl. I n v . № 16050 contains t h e s t i p u l a t i o n t h a t t h e lessee is n o t allo-wed t o leave t h e arable l a n d untilled before t h e t e r m i n a t i o n of t h e lease. I n connection w i t h these t h r e e t e x t s , f o r m i n g a group b y themselves, Z i l l i a c u s publishes a t e x t being a lease acknow-l e d g m e n t f r o m Hermopoacknow-lis, Beracknow-l. I n v . № 16, 166 (643 A . D . ? ) . T h e lease is for a t i m e of t w o years. T h e c o m m o n view, according t o which t h e leases of t h e V I I c e n t u r y were generally m a d e επί χρόνον δσον βούλει, n o t for a f i x e d t i m e , needs t o be m o d i f i e d . R I C H A R D G. S A L O M O N , A papyrus from Constantinople. ( H a m
-b u r g I n v . № 410). (The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology vol. 34 (1948), 98 f f ) .
T h e H a m b u r g p a p y r u s belongs t o t h e A p h r o d i t e d o c u m e n t s of t h e s i x t h c e n t u r y . T h e writer p r e s e n t s himself as t h e chief of t h e θειοτάτη οικία, t h e divina or dominica domus as it is called in t h e L a t i n sources. T h e title of t h i s official, t h e a d m i n i s t r a t o r of t h e i m p e r i a l „ h o u s e h o l d " is κουράτωρ της θείας (θειοτάτης) οικίας or
