“These poor fragments, if treated with care, always reserve some novelties”
(Isabella Andorlini)

The texts collected in this volume, stemming from the International Seminar on Unpublished Papyri from the Cairo Egyptian Museum, come from different contexts of the ancient Arsinoite district (Fayum oasis) and present some individual peculiarities that make them worthy of being edited (in some cases re-edited) and gathered together. Two Ptolemaic texts come from the archives of Asklepiades, oikonomos of the region, and of Zenon. A considerable group of the Roman texts belong to the archive of Sokrates, tax collector at Karanis. The other Roman documents comprise some nice examples of lists and accounts, a variegated group of receipts with some peculiarities, a tomos synkollesimos of census declarations from Hadrianʼs reign, a fragmentary private letter, a petition from the late archive of Isidoros. They provide new elements for our knowledge of the society, economy and everyday life of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt and material for further scholarly discussion.

Introduction

Ptolemaic texts
1. Letter to Asklepiades dealing with πεντάρουροι μάχιμοι
2. Fragment of a letter (from the Zenon Archive?)

Roman texts: Sokrates’ registers
3. Daybook of payments in kind
4. Ledger recording works at the embankments

Roman texts: more from the Sokrates Archive
5. Topographical description
6. Draft of official correspondence
7. Report on criminal (?) events
8. List of payments
9. Fragments of land-related accounts and documents

Roman texts: accounts and lists
10. Account issued by the παραλέμπται
11. Account
12. List of payments in kind

Roman texts: receipts
13. Receipts for γερδιακόν
14. Receipt for arrears of λαογραφία
15. Receipt from the sitologi of Berenikis Aigialou
16. Receipt from the πράκτορες ἀργυρικῶν of Soknopaiou Nesos
17. Receipt for land rent issued by Aurelia Demetria

Roman texts: various
18. Register of census declarations
19. Final part of a letter
20. Petition about a theft, from the Isidoros Archive

Bibliography

Indices

Plates

Nicola Reggiani teaches Papyrology at the University of Parma and is research fellow in the same discipline at the University of Udine. He has produced several publications in the field of Papyrology, including a comprehensive monograph about Digital Papyrology (Digital Papyrology I: Methods, Tools and Trends, Berlin-Boston 2017) and a scholarly handbook (Papirologia. La cultura scrittoria dellʼEgitto greco-romano, Parma 2019). His main research topics currently focus on the Greek papyri from Tebtunis, the Greek medical papyri and medicine in ancient Egypt, as well as the developments of digital tools for the papyrological studies (in particular: text encoding, digital critical edition, automatic hand recognition).

editore: Silva Editore (Parma)

stampa: giugno 2023

ISBN: 978-88-7765-237-9

numero di pagine: 170 + 30 tavole a colori fuori testo

prezzo di copertina: € 35,00