AEGYPTUS

This paper offers a new reading in the subscriptio of P.Herc. 1427, which represents the mi- dollo of the papyrus roll containing the first book of Philodemus’ On Rhetoric. By applying recent high-resolution digital microscopy, this study argues that the correct reading of the third line of the subscriptio is the genitive plural of the enigmatic term ὑπομνηματικόν. This confirms that P.Herc. 1427 is the very first ὑπομνηματικόν or ‘hypomnematic book’ in a series of subsequent ὑπομνηματικά of the same treatise.

This article introduces a new edition of P.Rain. Unterricht kopt. 311, a piece of paper containing an Arabic account recently described by Petra Sijpesteijn (on one side) and a multi- plication table (the first six columns on side B and the last column on side A at right angles of the document). New reflections on the Arabic text, as well as new readings and interpretations of the Greek table, shed light on the background of the document and its writing.

This article proposes a new interpretation of the last sentence (before the countersignature) of the Byzantine receipt PSI VI 695, according to which payment is made because of a prior written bond made by the payer.

This paper readdresses the content of the papyrus fragments forming PSI 12 1283, and offers a new critical edition accompanied with proposals for supplement. Moreover comparison with Thucydides and Diodorus is discussed.

This short note emends Thucydides 7.68.1 following P.Oxy. 11 1376, and offering a few philological observations.

The article contains the re-editions of O.Camb. 117-119 and O.Bodl. II 2164, and the editio nes principes of other six Greek Christian ostraca: O.Col. inv. 323, 525, 528, 3070, O.Lips. Inv. 836 and 3475. They are dated to the early Byzantine period. Some of them come certain ly from Thebes, and a Theban provenance is possible for others. Three ostraca are amulets, and the remaining contain hymns or other Christian texts.

This article presents an analysis of the ancient literary and papyrological sources for a particular kind of medical plaster, called ‘Egyptian grey plaster’ (φαιὰ Αἰγυπτία). Galen quotes three main versions of this recipe, the most popular of which was ascribed to the physician Andromachus the Younger. A recently published papyrus (P.Egerton 13 verso) provides a new papyrological testimony of the Egyptian grey plaster, which will be discussed in relation to the ancient medical literature in order to trace the origin and transmission of this recipe.

In identifying the basileus mentioned in the tables of Locri, table 25 appears particularly problematic, whether one considers the basileus to be a Hellenistic sovereign or a civic ma- gistrate. In this work, after reiterating that the old prejudices against the hypothesis of the basileus as a Hellenistic sovereign have no reason to exist, a critical analysis is conducted on the thesis of the basileus as a magistrate: the argument for the use of the term basileus without a proper name, the one which identifies it as rex sacrorum, as well as the compari sons with other poleis, appears weak. Finally, an interpretation of table 25 is proposed, con- sistent with the identification of the basileus as a foreign sovereign: the sanctuary simply attributes as a loan made to the city the ninth that the latter has improperly paid to the basi leus, taking it away from the sanctuary.

This paper examines female literacy in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt through the lens of the rare vocabulary found in women’s private letters. By analysing the rich corpus of women’s letters, the paper highlights linguistic patterns, word choices and stylistic features that shed light on the educational background and social status of female writers in Egypt. The women’s pagan or Christian backgrounds, which may have influenced their reading interests, are also considered. The study challenges traditional assumptions about women’s literacy and contributes to the ongoing discourse on the relationship between li teracy and socio-economic status in antiquity. These findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of female literacy and epistolary practices in antiquity.

This study examines the role of classical education in Graeco-Roman schools, focusing on the moral purpose of literary passages used as school exercises. By compiling a corpus of school texts from thirty-two editions of papyri and related writing materials, this research explores the selection of passages that express ancient Greek concepts, such as φιλία – φι- λοξενία and/or address ethical matters, like μεσότης. The findings highlight the significance of these texts in shaping students’ intellectual and moral development, illustrating how classical literature provided a foundation for ethical instruction in ancient education. The impact of moral education is particularly evident in the rhetorical style and literary references found in non- literary texts, especially private letters, which reflect the deep assimilation of ancient Greek ideas and values.

This article presents an edition of a Greek dipinto in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. It preserves Christian phraseology, includes two isopsephies, mentions a (monastery) of St. Menas, and records that the content of the amphora was garum (“fish sauce”).

Throughout this paper the author illustrates interesting similarities in the development of several literary motifs between the production of Leonidas of Tarentum and some papyro logical and epigraphic texts survived from Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt. In particular, she focuses on the topic of the exile far from the native land (Leonidas 93 G.-P.), on the poetic description of the fishermen’s tools and everyday life (Leonidas 52 G.-P.), on the grief for an untimely death (Leonidas 98 G.-P.). Themes similar to these are developed in the Tale of Sinuhe, in P.Puškin (The pleasures of fishing and fowling) and in P.Sallier (Satire of trades), as well as in epigraphic texts from Ptolemaic Egypt (e.g., in the stela of Isetemakhe- bit). A comparison between the imperative form φεύγετε at the beginning of Leonidas’ epigram 37 G.-P. and a similar formula attested in the incipit of an Egyptian spell (P.Berlin 3027), used to expel a nocturnal bad creature, leads the author to postulate a direct influence of Egyptian magic on Leonidas’ poetry.

Disiecta membra. Edition of the textual documentation of the XXVIth dynasty sarcophagus fragments from Thebes of the priest of Amun Irethoriru, son of Padiaset, acquired in diffe rent lots during the second half of the 19th century, one preserved in a minor Egyptian collection in Italy at the Calderini Museum in Varallo Sesia, one lost during the Second World War at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe in Germany, one also lost or whose location is currently unknown.

The author analyzes unpublished documents preserved at the Archivio di Stato in Turin (AsTo) in order to highlight the efforts made by scholar Giuseppe Botti in the restoration of wooden coffins from the 1934-35 Italian mission to El-Hibeh.

At the end of the Franco-Tuscan Expedition, the two commissions divided equally the arte facts found during joint excavations. The coffins of Telesforo (Firenze, Museo Egizio, inv. no. 2165) and of Chelidonia (Louvre, inv. N. 2576) became two disiecta membra: conser ved in two different Egyptian collections. The object of the paper is therefore to shed light on the history of their discovery and their arrival in the current museum collections of Florence and Paris. The author draws to the attention many elements in common between the two specimens on the basis of iconographic analysis. Both can be defined as Graeco-Roman coffins and dated between the end of the II and the early III century A.D. Furthermore, it is hypothesized, through letters sent by Champollion and Rosellini’s writings, that the two wooden coffins come from the same Theban area excavated in 1829.

Among the papers of Vittorio Bartoletti preserved in the Laurentian Library in Florence, has emerged a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to his friend Leo Taddia. In 1967 Tad dia wrote a war ‘diary’, the drafts of which submitted by the author to Bartoletti in order to have a sincere opinion not only as a friend but, above all, as someone who had experienced firsthand the hardships of war and imprisonment.