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I n this b i b l i o g r a p h y t h e a u t h o r reviews t h e following books and articles, n o t available t o me so f a r : W . P e e k , Griechische Ver-sinschriften, c o n t a i n i n g " G r a b - E p i g r a m m e " a n d including n o t only inscriptions b u t also epigrams recorded on p a p y r i ; M. P . N i l s s o n , Die hellenistische Schule, who on p . 85 discusses t h e so-cial significance of t h e g y m n a s i u m in E g y p t , m e n t i o n i n g in this connection t h e P t o l e m a i c inscriptions referring t o g y m n a s i u m ;
У. B u r n s , Tiberius Julius Alexander (cf. JJP 9—10 [1956] 496).
M. P . N i l s s o n , Die hellenistische Schule (München, Beck 1955) X I I + 1 0 4 + 8 pis.
N o t seen. I k n o w it only f r o m a review b y C. B. W e l l e s , Class. Phil. L I I , No. (1957) p . 53—54.
L . С a s s o n , The Size of Ancient Merchant Ships (Studi in on. A. Calderini & R. Paribeni I [1956] 231—238).
This article is a n a t t e m p t to answer t h e f u n d a m e n t a l question a b o u t t h e a n c i e n t vessels, one t h a t has n e v e r been satisfactorily dealt w i t h : w h a t was t h e i r c a r r y i n g c a p a c i t y ? how m a n y t o n s of cargo could be loaded i n t o their h o l d s ? F i t t i n g l y enough, one im-p o r t a n t im-p h a s e of t h e i n q u i r y im-p a r t i c u l a r l y concerns E g y im-p t and t h e R o m a n E m p i r e .
E . B o s w i n k e l , La medicine et les médecins dans les papyrus grecs (Symbolae R. Taubenschlag dedicatae = Eos 48, 1 [1956] 181-190). T h e a u t h o r p o i n t s o u t t h a t in e x a m i n a t i o n s (cf. m y Law2 632) t h e hyperetes played t h e chief rôle a n d t h e physicians served only as his advisers, t h a t t h e t e r m δημόσιος ιατρός appears in t h e epoch of E m p e r o r A n t o n i n u s P i u s a n d f i n a l l y t h a t t h e t a x ίατρικόν was paid in t h e P t o l e m a i c epoch only b y t h e cleruchs. Very interesting are his r e m a r k s a b o u t t h e social position of t h e physicians a n d t h e exercise of t h e i r profession.
A. R o w e — B. R . R e e s , A Contribution to the Archeology of the Western Desert: I V The Great Serapeum of Alexandria ( R e p r i n t f r o m t h e Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 39, No. 2,
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Mr. R o w e ' s investigation have proved beyond doubt that it was Ptolemy III who built both the Sarapeum of Alexandria and its Temple of Sarapis near the Pylon Gate, that he incorporated within its enclosure an already existing temple, and that his Sara-peum was itself enclosed and rebuilt in Roman times.
Rees reviews briefly the main literary and non-literary evi-dence for the introduction of the cult of Sarapis into Alexandria and for the building of the great Sarapeum, and considers what fresh light is thrown on this evidence by the recent archeological discoveries.
F. Z u c k e r , Versuch unzulässiger Überführung eines Handwerkers in ein anderes Handwerk (Ρ. Ryl. 654) (Studi in on. A. Calde-rini & R. Paribeni II [1957] 339—343).
The author gives a new interpretation of the passage in 1. 8 and 1. 9. He thinks that the term οί οικοδόμοι in 1. 8 does not mean "certain builders" but that it refers to the corporation of builders, resp. to the members of the corporations. Interesting are also hie remarks on this corporation (p. 341) in the hellenistic world. F. Z u c k e r , Priester und Tempel in Ägypten in den Zeiten der
de-cianischen Christenverfolgung (Akten des VIII. Intern. Kongres-ses f. Papyrologie = Mitteil, aus der Papyrussammlung der öst. Nationalbibliothek [P.E.R.] V. Folge [1956] 167—174). See JJP 9—10 (1956) 587.
