Volume 70, Issue 2

A kollesis is strong evidence that the two fragments of P. Stras. inv. 3 (Hipponax, frr. *115-*117 W.) belong to the same column. The article argues for placing fr. B first and reading frr. *117 and *115 W. as belonging to the same poem.

The article presents an edition of the yet unidentified P. Gen. inv. 376 containing Isoc. 4.108-109. Remarkable is a variant in the margin (l. 26), which indicates a process of collation between different ancient textual traditions.

P.Oxy. XX 2258 is one of the most renowned papyri of Callimachus. This article demonstrates that one of the scraps published among the Unidentified Fragments, which contains marginal annotations, actually originates from a Demosthenes codex.

Edition of three “deluxe” (or “elaborate”) horoscopes for births in the second and third centuries CE, one probably dated to the reign of Gallus. Each offers indirect reflections of astrological interpretation of the horoscopic data, including the classification of planets, zodiac signs, their parts, and of additional objects such as the cardinal points and paranatellonta. A checklist collects the other original horoscopes belonging to this type.

Publication of two liturgical papyri from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The first papyrus is a large fragment of a double leaf from a codex of the 5th or 6th century with a notably idiosyncratic early redaction of the anaphora of St. Mark. It belongs to and joins with P.Gen. IV 153 (re-edited here). The second papyrus is a small fragment of a single sheet assignable to perhaps the 5th or 6th century, which preserves an independent intercession in the tradition of the Liturgy of St. Mark with some differences from any other attested versions of this intercession.

Papyri are discovered in several ways. Sometimes they can be found attached to clay or plaster amphora stoppers.

In reaction to the assumption in recent scholarship that 8th century tax receipts from Western Thebes were not issued to taxpayers, but kept by officials for administrative purposes, this contribution supports the original view that these payment records were written for taxpayers who requested a receipt. Although dockets may indicate that some receipts were temporarily kept at an office, the findspots of Coptic receipts, the variety of the inscribed pottery, the likely provenance of the Pharaonic pottery, the choice for Greek instead of Coptic, and the occasional omission of the patronymic point to the taxpayer as the intended user.

When most of the papyri that Ulrich Wilcken had excavated at Ahnās (Heracleopolis Magna) in 1899 were destroyed by fire, the Berlin Museum decided to use the insurance money to buy more papyri in Egypt, the so-called „Ehnas-Ersatz“. Editing new archive documents, the article traces the history of this group of papyri from the fire to their edition and partial return to Cairo.