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.
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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