Vita e Pensiero

This paper analyzes the structure of the late antique codices of the Iliad, focusing on whether the homeric text was divided into tomes and how. various testimonies are discussed: from the Ilias Ambrosiana to the harris homer. the late antique editions of the Iliad on codex could consist of a single tome, but also of two tomes of twelve books each...

The article reviews the papyrological and archaeological evidence for domestic and professional beer production in the Roman Fayum. Although home brewing became more significant, this did not signal a decline of the professional beer industry, contrary to common perception. In the papyri, beer sellers supplanted brewers, but production and sale were closely associated...

After the first description by giuseppe Botti in his catalogue of 1955, a fragment of a coffin lid from the third Intermediate period housed at Cortona, Museo dell’Accademia etrusca, Inv. 3438, is fully published...

The pedon Statuette is a vII cen. BCe egyptian piece of sculpture from priene (?) bearing a late vII or early vI cen. BCe Ionic inscription by an individual named pedon, son of Amphinnes. through a textual, historical and linguistic analysis, it will be argued that pedon was not a successful greek mercenary in Saite egypt (XXvI Dynasty; vIIvI cen. BCe), as previous scholarship stated, but rather an hellenized egyptian native. Such scenario fits better into trends of coeval graeco-egyptian interactions.

This study aims to clarify the profound motivations underlying the deification of queens and their cult inside and outside egypt. the thorough analysis of the unique symbol of political power, the triple uraeus displayed on the heads of a number of statues of queens, has allowed the Author to propose new identifications and interpretations...

Three Achaemenid and one native egyptian kings are dated to the second persian domination, so are two persian satraps. 90 coins carry inscriptions with the names of the satraps or of Artaxerxes III...

The Petra Papyri V, edited by Antti Arjava, Jaakko Frösén, Jorma Kaimio, American Center of Oriental Research, Amman, jordan 2018 (C. Balconi) - SCOTT D. CHARLESWORTH, Early Christian Gospels: Their Production and Transmission (papyrologica Florentina, 47), Firenze 2016 (J. Chapa)