Vita e Pensiero

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...

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.

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...

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...

This paper addresses P.Vindob. G 257 and G 29781, discussing several controversial issues relating to Xenophon’s Hellenica I 1, 27-28: the lacuna of fr. b, ll. 9-10, the translation of fr. b, Hermocrates’ direct speech, the papyrus’ relationship with the manuscript tradition, the interplay between the internal political history of Syracuse (411 BC), and the exile of the Syracusan general Hermocrates, operating in the Hellespont in support of Sparta.

This paper gives a new reading of P.Med. I.2 17, offering a new edition with supplements. A study in-depth of its content shows that the papyrus was hardly part of Timaeus’ histo rical work.

This paper offers a complete overview of all the problems raised by the bio-doxography of Diogenes of Babylon, the fifth scholar of the Stoic School. In particular, all the most important innovations that have emerged in recent decades from research on papyri (especially the Herculaneum rolls) and their consequences on the historical-philosophical level are illu strated...

The Author presents here the first edition of P.Lond. inv. 1603, a papyrus kept in the British Library. It dates back to the third century CE and its provenance is unknown. The papyrus contains a business letter, in which we find interesting references to coverings and the birthday celebration of a young woman.