Vita e Pensiero

Two case studies of prosopographical identification are presented for a corpus of early roman texts from euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome. the first concerns the name Aphrodisios, which reappears across several documents, and which suggests a new connection between previously unlinked documents. the second deals with the name Philoxenos, and concludes that the presence of a name alone is not sufficient to confirm identification, even within texts of similar origin and date. Further comments are made on the use of trismegistos People as a tool for research...

Fragments of a parchment leaf with parts of Book seven of ilias (H 182–195, H 218–230, H 250–255, H 285–289), shortly described by B.P. Grenfell and A.s. Hunt in the oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. Xi (london 1915), under number 1389, now lodged in the Bridwell library, southern Methodist university (Bridwell Papyrus no. 5)...

This article analyses the Vienna Epigrams Papyrus (cPr XXXiii) from the point of view of its content, form, and internal organisation. with its predilection for erotic, sympotic, and satirical compositions, the papyrus shows, as early as the 3rd century Ad, the presence of scoptic themes, hitherto considered to be typical of the imperial age...

The present paper includes four paragraphs whose headings and contents are: 1. BGU IV 1089: Πῶις, Σενεθῶθις e altrο. The new readings of ll. 1, 5, 11, 26 provide important topographical data of the Hermopolite nomos. 2. P.Flor. III 356: ancora sull’annotazione del verso. new text of the docket on the back of a lease of land. 3. PSI I 37: nuova trascrizione...

In some passages of his work De Iside et Osiride, Plutarch deals with the issue of the Egyptian notion of soul and its manifestations. in all cases, Plutarch uses the Greek term ψυχή to make reference to the “soul” in which, according to him, ancient Egyptians believed. As a result, Plutarch presupposes the existence of an anthropological dualism – similar to the Greek one – in the Egyptian ontological thought...

This paper investigates the archaeological picture of “everyday writing” in the Ptolemaic-roman settlement of karanis. “Everyday writing” is defined as “the act of writing using materials that can reasonably be assumed to have been available to anyone, regardless of socioeconomic status.” with regard to writing implements, the paper shows that palettes are found in significant numbers in roman contexts. it hypothesizes that a demotic literary culture surrounding the temples might explain this result...

The fieldwork brought new observations on the building remains outside the northern wall of the church d5, supporting at the same time the hypothesis that they belong to a kind of palace building as do the large reception halls at the eastern end of the complex serving probably for the needs of the bishop of the town. significant are the remains of the slightly centrally placed peristyle...

The two Egyptologists and their contemporaneous scientific work...