Band 66, Heft 2

Publication of the first known papyrus of Hermogenes’ On Issues (Περὶ ϲτάϲεων), a leaf from a papyrus codex of the fourth century. Besides orthographic variants, the papyrus presents two new readings.

Edition of a fragmentary record of a dispute between embalmers (ταριχευταί) in Hypsele/Shashotep, establishing prospograhical links with P.Count 53-54 and the Siut archive, and discussing the term hypoteles and female embalmers.

The article presents an edition of a fragment of official correspondence that cites the entole of Artemon, who is known from other documents to be a high official at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria active in 233/32-227/26 BC. It may also mention Asklepiades, the oikonomos of the Arsinoite nome. The letter concerns the inspection and execution of tax collection, in particular, the monopoly on textiles, othoniera.

Publication of a donkey sale from the University of Michigan excavations of Soknopaiou Nesos, which was drawn up through a little-attested notarial official with authority over both metropolite and village grapheia. The document helps clarify the process of notarial centralization in the Arsinoite nome of the late second century CE.

Discussion of the dossier of a Theadelphian family to which a fugitive brother can be added.

A series of notes on the elucidation of passages obscured by the use of abbreviations and editorial misses. They occur in texts from late antiquity and especially the early Arab period, most of them fiscal.

The editions of previously unpublished texts from the monastic complex at Wadi Sarga in the collection of the British Museum. These fourteen ostraca bear writing exercises (‘school texts’), primarily alphabets and alphabetic letters or sequences, personal names, and epistolary formulae. Such exercises were not included by W.E. Crum and H.I. Bell in their 1922 publication of texts from the site.

This study shows that the book of Isaiah was sometimes divided by Coptic scribes into three parts, each of them being copied individually into a separate manuscript. By surveying the available evidence, the author argues that this practice originated in the 4th century CE and was in use until the 8th century CE. The origins and eventual disappearance of tripartite Isaiah must be connected with the transformations that affected Coptic codices and scribal traditions from late antiquity to the medieval period.

The epithet “god Neos Philopatôr” was used for the prince Ptolemy “Memphitês”, killed in 130 BC by his father Ptolemy VIII Euergetês II during the conflict against his mother Cleopatra II, but then introduced in the Ptolemaic dynastic cult before the amnesty decrees of 118 BC, as a sign of reconciliation. This Greek title led to different translations in Demotic, which depended on the geographical origin of the scribes.