31 Aug 2023

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri volume LXXXVII

This volume (GRM 108) features significant new texts from classical and early Christian literature, as well as documentary texts from late antiquity.

Front cover text: The Oxyrhynchus Papyri volume LXXXVII.

This volume includes editions of fifty-eight papyri and one text on parchment. Among the theological texts, three are of exceptional interest. 5575 is an early copy of sayings of Jesus corresponding in part to the canonical gospels of Matthew and Luke and in part to the apocryphal gospel of Thomas. Jesus is also the speaker in 5576 and apparently in 5577, where Mary is addressed. Both pieces may be loosely called 'Gnostic'; the latter appears to be Valentinian. Of the new literary items, the most extensive is 5584, a collection of short biographies of eminent Romans, written a century earlier than Plutarch. Plutarch's own Homeric Studies, now mostly lost, may be recognized in 5585. Early Greek philosophy is represented by 5583, a full column of what appears to be Antiphon's On Truth. The extant literary texts are fragments of two papyrological rarities, the historical work of Aristodemus (5586–7) and the astrological poetry ascribed to Manetho (5588–90). The documentary section illustrates social and economic realities of late antique estates, mostly that of the Apions; there is new evidence on the handling of wine distributions, on the pricing of equipment and materials, and on the more mundane relations of the Apion estate to monasteries.

Edited with translations and notes by P.J. Parsons and N. Gonis. With contributions by A. Benaissa, J. Chapa, E. Chepel, G. Edwards, J. Fish, K. Fleischer, N. Gonis, W. B. Henry, M. W. Holmes, P. J. Parsons, E. E. Prodi, J. Spooner, G. Verhasselt, D. B. Wallace, N. J. Zola.

  • ISBN: 978-0-85698-252-1 (hardback); 978-0-85698-265-1 (eBook)
  • Published: August 2023
  • Size: 254 × 190 mm
  • Pages: 192

Contents:

Preface | Table of Papyri | List of Plates | Numbers and Plates | Texts: I. Theological Texts (5573–7); II. New Literary Texts (5578–85); III. Extant Literary Texts (5586–90); IV. Documentary Texts (5591–5631) | Indexes: I. Theological Texts; II. New Literary Texts; III. Ruler; IV. Consuls; V. Indictions and Eras; VI. Months; VII. Dates; VIII. Personal Names; IX. Geographical; X. Religion; XI. Official and Military Terms and Titles; XII. Professions, Trades and Occupations; XIII. Measures; XIV. Tax; XV. General Index of Words; XVI Corrections to Published Papyri | Plates

Table of papyri

I. Theological Texts
5573 Romans 8.17–19, 32–3; 9.18–22, 32–3; 10.1–4
5574 Revelation 17.1–4
5575 Sayings of Jesus
5576–7 Two ‘Gnostic’ Fragments
5576 Gnostic Text
5577 Valentinian Text?
II. New Literary Texts
5578 Archilochus, Trochaic Tetrameters
5579 Alcaeus
5580 Choral Lyric
5581 Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae II
5582 Comedy
5583 Antiphon, On Truth 1 (?)
5584 Roman Lives
5585 Plutarch, Homeric Studies (?)
III. Extant Literary Texts
5586–7 Aristodemus
5586 Aristodemus, FGrH 104 F 1 8.1
5587 Aristodemus, FGrH 104 F 1 13.1–15.3
5588–90 Ps.-Manetho, Apotelesmatica
5588 Ps.-Manetho, Apotelesmatica 1.26–34, 36–48
5589 Ps.-Manetho, Apotelesmatica 2.363–84
5590 Ps.-Manetho, Apotelesmatica 4.233–6, 285–91
IV. Documentary Texts
5591 Receipt for Money
5592 Loan of Money
5593 Order to Supply Oil
5594 Order to Pay
5595 Order to Supply Wine
5596 Order to Pay Rent
5597 Order to Supply Wheat
5598 Sale of Wine on Delivery
5599–5604 Documents from the Dossier of Victor, Wine-Dealer
5599 Receipt for Wine
5600 Order to Supply Wine
5601 Receipt for Wine
5602 Receipt for Wine
5603 Receipt for Wine
5604 Order to Supply Wine
5605 Note
5606 Receipt for Money Given to a Church
5607 Receipt for Wine
5608 Receipt for Wine
5609 Receipt for Wheat
5610 Receipt for the Price of Cogwheels
5611 Receipt for Wheat
5612 Receipt for Ropes
5613 Fragment of a Document
5614 Receipt for the Price of Wine
5615 Receipt for Firewood
5616 Receipt for Firewood
5617 Receipt for Wheat Given to a Monastery
5618 Receipt for the Price of Reeds
5619 Receipt for Wine
5620 Receipt for the Price of Water-Lifting Machinery
5621 Receipt for the Price of an Axle
5622 Receipt for Ropes and Baskets
5623 Receipt for Ropes
5624 Receipt for a Rope
5625 Order to Supply a Rope
5626 Receipt for Wheat
5627 Account of Sale of Acacia Wood
5628 Receipt for the Price of Nails
5629 Receipt for Replacement Parts of an Irrigator
5630 Order to Supply Wine
5631 List of Payments

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