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Abstract The edition aims to study ten unpublished Greek papyri. The researcher will edit and comment on the historical and linguistic contents of these documents. These documents are housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and other places. The first four texts, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, are from the collection of Catalogue General: CG. 10300, 10307, 10524 and 10679. The other four, are from the collection of Michigan Papyri in Ann Arbor in the United States of America and Michigan collection in the Egyptian Museum: (number 174, 4882, 344 and 55). In addition, another two texts (number 105 and 143) from Lund University Library in Sweden. The ten texts discuss multiple topics, ordered in chronological order and in subject, from Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine periods. A Summary of documents subject: I. Fragment of a (Property Return?) - (Gurob; 10 Dec. 209 BCE): It is from Catalog General. It dates to 3rd century BCE. The document is a property return of a land or house. It is one of six papyri that Grenfell and Hunt ranked them in the Catalogue General, as population reports and property returns in the Ptolemaic period. In this text, both, the name of the royal scribe and the date, from Gurob. II. A Prepayment Contract of Catoecic Land - (3rd century BCE): It is from the collection of Michigan Papyri in Ann Arbor in the United States of America. It dates to 3rd century CE. This fragment text is probably πξνδόκαηνο, contract of catoecic land by cavalry soldiers. It is copy of a report of proceeding. Unfortunately, the portion of the papyrus is the fifth part of the roll, since it is a very broad, wide and long sheet of papyrus. However, this papyrus constitutes parts of an interesting series of documents, the formulae of which are unique. III. Fragment of an Official Document - (Gurob; 2nd century BCE): It is from Catalog General. It dates to 2nd century CE. The official text is a reading of names and some are followed by father‟s name or their profession. Moreover, there is a part of Demotic line at the beginning of the text. Unfortunately, no element seems to identify the purpose of this list of names. Most of the attested names are Egyptian, from Gurob. IV. A Private Letter - (2nd century BCE): It is from the collection of Lund University. It dates to 2nd century BCE. This fragment comes from what appears to have been a private letter, with the use of the first line of the common greeting formula. The names of the sender and the addressee are missing. The main interests of the text lay in the fact of carrying out some service or work on board ship instead of somebody else. The writer informs addressee that a woman did not make any of unthinking acts, appearing for the first time for the adjective ἀιόγηζηνο. The letter is most likely a note of concerned issue. The sender manages to bring in that matter to someone. The writer informs the addressee that his sister not make any unthinking acts. Someone perhaps narrates the event. V. Conveyance of Land - (Oxyrhynchus; 2nd/1st century BCE): It is from the collection of Lund University. It dates to 2nd century BCE. This papyrus appears to have preserved an official document of conveyance of a cleurchic land, as well as royal cultivators. The fragmentary state of this preservation of the document, does not allow a precise definition of its content. However, the papyrus kept the provenance in the first line. VI. A Private Letter - (2nd century CE): It is from Catalog General. It dates to 2nd century CE. The document is a private letter may be written by a woman. The name of the sender is missing in the upper lost part, and unfortunately also the name of the addressee. The sender asks the addresses to buy and send her a small amount of purple dye πνξθύξα. VII. Complaint about Violence and Robbery - (Karanis; 28 Sep. - 27 Oct. 186 CE): It is from the collection of Michigan in the Egyptian Museum. It dates to 186 CE. It is the last part of a petition, dating to the second century CE in the 27th year of the Emperor Commodus reign. The extant text seems to follow the usual pattern of a complaint about robbery under violence.After a short description of the course of events, the victim asks for the evildoers to be brought to justice before the strategus; the exact date concludes the petition; only the indication of the year of the Emperor is clearly legible. VIII. End of a Document - (Karanis; 2nd century CE): It is from the collection of Michigan in the Egyptian Museum. It dates to 2nd century CE. The text itself contains a nearly complete imperial dating. In addition, the titulature, is partly preserved the name of the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, so it gives an indication of an accurate date of a closing formula in the official documents. IX. Acknowledgment of Sale for Land - (Oxyrhynchus; 3rd century CE): It is from the collection of Michigan Papyri in Ann Arbor in the United States of America. It dates to 3rd century CE. This is the latter part of acknowledgment of sale of a twenty- seven arourai yard. No date is specified in the preserved text. Nevertheless, Syron village in Oxyrhynchus is mentioned. This contract is a standard form of a copy and is registered in grapheion. X. Payment for order - (Arsinoe; 6/7th century CE): It is from Catalog General. It is dated to sixth or seventh century CE. This text perhaps relates to the same scriber of texts, which were issued by Ἀγ αζάκκσλ, and seems to be one of six documents from his archive. Specifically in comparison with the rest of the texts, the collections of the texts are five of wheat receipts and one of a payment order for grains from SPP III archive. It is one of the wheat receipts archive, issued by Agathammon.I- Fragment of a (Property Return?)1 P.Cair.Mus. C.G 10307 9 x 4.1 cm Gurob =SR1285 10 Dec. 209 BCE This light brown papyrus is a very small fragment and contains the end of a property return. It was found in Gurob and kept in the Egyptian Museum. The recto of this papyrus contains five lines of a text written along the fibers. The left margin is preserved and it measures about 2 cm. The upper, lower and margins have been cut off, and the fragment was folded twice vertically. The papyrus is of a good quality, but mutilated in the upper left side. The letters are big, clear and not cursive. The verso is plain. The Document is a property return of a land or a house, and it is one of six papyri, that Grenfell and Hunt ranked them in the Catalogue General as population reports and property returns in Ptolemaic period, specifically in the third century BCE, (cf. P. Cair. Cat. 10274, 10277, 10295, 10307, 10323 and 10325). This text keeps both, the name of the oikonomos Kallikrates, and the royal scribe Imouthes, in which, they recur in a group of documents in Cairo Museum, 1 (Published in the Bulletin of The Ain-Shams University, “The third International Congress The Mutual Influence Between The ancient Civilization, Part 2”, The Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions, March 2012, p.9-11). Medinet Gurob or Kom Medinet Gurob, located at the entrance to the Arsinoe, southwest of El-Lahun. (29°12ˈN 30°57ˈE) (http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/gurob/index.html), (http://www.trismegistos.org/fayum/detail.php?tm=720 published by Grenfell and Hunt in Archiv II, 82-84, of which the first three are reprinted in chrest. Wilcken. 224 a, b and c. These documents are dated in year 14, and as shown below there can now be no doubt that they, like the present papyrus, belong to the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator (209 BCE), table 1. A further royal decree appears to have ordered comprehensive registration and valuation of property to tax, (see, Clarysse, W., Thompson, D. J., 2006, Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: vol. 2, Historical Studies, Cambridge, p. 25). Perhaps our document is the lower part of one of these documents, chrest.Wilck. 224 a, b and c. According to the parallels, which were directed to Apollonios the epimeletes in the third century BCE, maybe this papyrus was sent to the same epimeletes. As the reports declarations to the oikonomos and the royal scribe Imouthes, was edited under the number in chrest.Wilck. 222 a, b and c, on 30 Phaophi in 209 BCE. These three property declarations addressed to the epimeletes Apollonios, the oikonomos Kallikrates and to the royal scribe Imouthes, as well. The texts give a brief specification of the property and an assessment of its value from Mouchis in Polemon division. |