Berliner Griechische Urkunden
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Edited by:
Fabian Reiter
The Berlin papyrus collection is home to a wealth of original Greek and Latin documents from ancient Egypt that have been preserved over the centuries on papyrus and other materials such as potsherds, parchment, wood and paper. In the series Berliner Griechische Urkunden transcriptions, translations, commentaries and illustrations make the texts, which provide many insights into the daily life and administration of the land, available to scholars. From volume 20 the editions of the Berliner Griechische Urkunden, founded in 1895, appear as an independent series from Verlag De Gruyter.
- Fortführung der 1895 von der Berliner Papyrussammlung begründeten renommierten Publikationsreihe
- Schwester-Reihe zu „Berliner Klassiker Texte“
- international renommierte Papyrologen erschließen erstmalig vergessene Schätze der Sammlung
Author / Editor information
Fabian Reiter, Papyrussammlung Berlin.
Topics
The πιττάκιον was considered to be an agricultural company, with joint and several partners, run by the pittakiarch; or else as a method of cultivating public land, imposed by the administration: the pittakiarch took large areas on lease and sublet most of it to other cultivators, while remaining liable to the tax authorities. In the twenty or so texts on the pittakia that are currently available, there is, unless I am mistaken, no evidence of forced cultivation or subletting of the land, nor any signs of solidarity between the members of the group. The role of the pittakiarch remains undefined. What can be pointed out again is that two pittakiarchs were at the same time πληρωταί, liturgists exercising some control over the pittakia, that several cultivators were members of two pittakia at the same time and that there were lasting relationships between some members of a pittakion; also noteworthy is the transfer of some plots of land made from one pittakion to another. In addition, we find a number of people not attested elsewhere, and new toponyms, Greek or Egyptian in origin, indicating the location of cultivated land.
Les papyrus publiés ici proviennent des archives administratives de Théadelphie, un village important au nord-ouest du nome Arsinoïte (Fayoum), et datent de la seconde moitié du IIe siècle ap. J.-C. La plupart concernent des πιττάκια, des groupes de cultivateurs de terre publique. En particulier le 2901 fait suite immédiate des P.Col. V 1 verso 4 + P.Graux IV 31.
This volume contains first editions of 29 documentary texts from the Berlin papyrus collection from Byzantine and early Arabic Egypt. The volume concludes the publication of the commemorative publication trilogy for the reopening of the Neues Museum Berlin in 2009. The presented editions provide valuable insights into administration, economy, religious practice and the multifaceted everyday life in late antique Egypt.
In celebration of the reopening of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection at the ‘Neues Museum,’ this volume presents editions of previously unpublished Greek documents from the Berlin papyrus collection. Numerous papyrologists from all over the world provide insights into the administration, everyday life and legal world of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Volume I contains Ptolemaic and Roman papyri.
Volume 19 of the series "Berliner Griechische Urkunden" (BGU) contains papyrus documents exclusively from Hermupolis, as did volumes 12 and 17. Of the 80 texts in the new volume, 76 are here published for the first time, while four are revised re-editions. They cover a time-span from the middle of the first century B.C. to the beginning of the 7th century A.D., with the majority of the texts dating from the 4th to the 6th century. beginning with a fourth-century petition to the Emperor with a request for the restitution of a dowry (the only document in Latin), followed by other official texts, such as petitions and other documents either addressed to or issued by the authorities. The second part of this volume contains private documents, such as contracts of lease, sale, loan etc. These texts provide a large amount of new information on details; taken together, however, they also offer a vivid picture of the social and economic life in an important provincial capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
