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This article presents a new edition with a translation and a commentary of P.Oxy. LIII 3699. By examining the originals I have been able to join the fragments, which were published as separate pieces in the editio princeps. The text is a philosophical dialogue dealing with education and probably belongs to the Aristotelian Peripatos.

A scrap of papyrus from the Beinecke library, dating to the late first century BCE or early first century CE, has yielded a passage from Demosthenes’ De Corona. The text is good, and in one place offers further support for Demosthenes’ avoidance of hiatus.

P.Oxy. LXVIII 5156, a second century witness to Plutarch’s Quaestiones Convivales, reads τηρε[ῖ instead of the mediaeval manuscripts’ ποιεῖ at 660 c 7. The passage suggests a parallel between the effect of conversation on wine drinking and that of marble on heated iron during a puzzling metallurgical process. In this paper we identify and explain this process in the context of ancient ironworking technology, and discuss the two readings and their implications for the understanding of the simile.

P.Ant. III 128, a fragment from a medical compilation, is identified in the present paper to contain a passage from the treatise “On Therapeutic Aids” by Antyllus (2 nd century A.D.). In the papyrus, the author’s indication is apparently given in the form of a running title. Therefore, the phenomenon of running titles in papyri and manuscripts is discussed. The study concludes with an overview on ancient treatises entitled “On Therapeutic Aids”, along with a reconstruction of the table of contents of Antyllus’ lost work.

P.Berol. 21312 and P.Schubart 27 (P.Berol. 16086), as pointed out by Odette Bouquiaux-Simon in 1992, are part of the same sheet containing a Gnomic Anthology dating to the II/III century A.D. (LDAB 4984). This paper shows that the four fragments of P.Berol. 21312 actually join with P.Schubart 27 and it also supplies a new transcription of the text, combined with the papyrological apparatus.

This paper 1 deals with the pieces of evidence for Orphism from Herculaneum in which the name of Orpheus is mentioned, of which four belong to Philodemus’ treatise On Piety, and three to Book 4 of Philodemus’ On Music. As far as the treatise On Piety is concerned, these testimonia have mainly a mythological and theological content, offering important parallels to some passages of the Derveni Papyrus and to the allegorical methodology adopted by the Stoics (in particular Chrysippus). On the other hand, the treatise On Music tackles above all the problems concerning the relationship between Orpheus and the power of music against the backdrop of a more general discourse on the influence of music on human ethics.

P.Sal.Gr. 2 can be dated around the first half of the second century B.C. It comes from the Arsinoite nome and has been recovered from mummy cartonnage. The fragment contains the final part of „a complaint against unknown persons“ with a request to find the culprits and bring them before the competent officials.

Edition of a fragment of a petition found in Tebtunis, probably related to an act of violence perpetrated by a group of people. The bottom of the document is preserved, with the standard request formulae, the identification of the petitioner, and the date (22nd September 98 AD).

The following three papyrus documents shed some light on the finances of a Ptolemaic or Roman household and on the financial administration of Egypt in Roman and Byzantine times. The household account may be one of the first accounts returning to accounting in the silver standard. The second document is a list most likely to be attributed to a logistērion on the nome level, and the third is a request for a boēthos to facilitate the tax collection.

Edition of P.Tebt. II 496, which is an offer to lease one aroura of crown land in the marshes of Tebtunis, similar to P.Tebt. II 376, and discussion of the terms κοινὴ διαμίσθωσις, ἐπιμερισμός and ἐπίξενον.

In the common opinion the Abinnaeus archive was found in Philadelphia. The article shows that Dionysias can be the place of the discovery of the papyri

The report informs about the 8th conference of papyrologists in Germany, which took place in Berlin in 2014 (July, 18-20), and it gives a summary of the contributions.