Amphilochios Papathomas

Ezechiel 12, 16–19 und 23–25 in einem griechischen Pergament aus Ägypten

The present article offers the first edition of an unpublished Greek fragment of a parchment codex kept in the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library. The fragment contains passages from the Book of Ezekiel (12; 16–19 and 23–25). Its significance lies in the fact that very few testimonies to this text are preserved on papyrus and parchment from Christian Egypt.

Bemerkungen zum kaiserzeitlichen Geschäftsbrief P.Tebt. Pad.I 24

Abstract The article offers critical remarks on and a re-edition of a Greek documentary papyrus belonging to the collection of the University of Padua and containing a Greek business letter from the second or third century of our era.

A Late Antique "donatio mortis causa"

Abstract The article offers an edition of a Greek papyrus belonging to the Austrian National Library which contains a fragment of a donatio mortis causa drawn up in Hermoupolis Magna. Donationes mortis causa are documents used in Roman and Byzantine Egypt for disposing of one’s property in anticipation of death. Since the present papyrus seems to date from the last third of the 6th century A.D., it provides us with one of the latest attestations of this kind of document.

Bemerkungen zu einem „Papyrus aus dem unruhigen Alexandreia am Vorabend der arabischen Eroberung“ (SB XVI 12425)

The article presents a new interpretation of a published Byzantine papyrus letter from the Collection of the Austrian National Library. Its first editor argued that it offered a precious testimony to the religious upheavals in Alexandria on the eve of its conquest by the Arabs. This article shows that the papyrus was found in the Fayum and does not necessarily come from Alexandria, and that the text should be dated to the late sixth or early seventh century, not in the 630s or early 640s. It is also proven that it is neither related to the monophysitic controversy nor to a group of monks or the Patriarch of Alexandria, as the first editor had suggested. At the end of the article a reconstruction of the content of the letter is attempted as well as of the facts to which it refers on the basis of the secure data now presented.Late Byzantine Alexandria; Monophysitism; Ecclesiastical disputes; Patriarch of Alexandria; Arab conquest of Egypt

Ein spätantiker Papyrusbrief an den magnificentissimus comes Menas

The article contains the first edition of a hitherto unpublished Greek papyrus letter from the Collection of the Austrian National Library. The text dates from the late 6 th century of our era and is addressed to a comes Menas. The provenance of the text is unknown. Most probably it comes from the Arsinoite or the Hermopolite nome. The edition is accompanied by a detailed introduction to and commentary on the papyrus.

Ein griechisches Papyrusamulett mit Teilen aus zwei Septuaginta Psalmen (Taf. 3)

Papathomas discusses a Greek papyrus of the Papyrussamlung in the Austrian National Library. It contains most of the third psalm of the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament and a second psalm which cannot be identified due to its bad condition of preservation.

Bemerkungen zu Papyri XXIII ( 633-689)

O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I pl. LXXXIV 4 O.Crum 429 BGU III 836 = W.Chr. 471 BGU VIII 1756 BGU VIII 1763 BGU XVIII 2746 P.Col. III 9 CPR XII 17 P.Fay. 12 P.Eirene III 18 P.Eirene III 25 P.Eirene III 32 P.Fouad 29 P.Fuad I Univ. 35 P.Grenf. I 37 P.Mich. IX 549 P.Ness. III 115 und SB XVIII 13308 P.Poethke 15 P.Rain.UnterrichtKopt. 185 P.Ryl. IV 669 PSI III 166 PSI V 494 PSI VI 696 PSI Com8 14 P.Stras. IV 277 P.Tebt. I 43 SB VIII 9766 SB VIII 9826 SB X 10271 SB XVI 12721 SB XVIII 13093 SB XX 14086 SPP X 1 SPP X 3 SPP X 6 SPP X13 SPP X 17 SPP X 20 SPP X 25 SPP X 61 SPP X 92 SPP X 102 SPP X 103 SPP X 109 SPP X 113 SPP X 130 SPP X 185 SPP X 187 SPP X 194 SPP X 200 SPP X 224 SPP X 233 SPP X 275 SPP X 281 SPP XX 7 W.Chr. 11 B SEG 32, 1589, 8–10

Zum Prosatext des homerischen Fragments P.Heid. IV 289

Abstract The article offers a new interpretation of a prose fragment that is linked to the Homeric cycle and is preserved in the literary papyrus P.Heid. IV 289.1–6. So far the fragment has been correlated to the Cypria, yet the article shows such a correlation to be not without problems and suggests that the fragment should rather be examined together with a Homeric scholion by Porphyry. Since the papyrus is a century earlier than Porphyry, it should be inferred that either the papyrus preserves the source of Porphyrys scholion or that the two texts have the same older mythographical source in common.

Textkritische Bemerkungen zu Berliner Papyrusbriefen

Im Rahmen einer mehrere Jahre andauernden Besch ftigung mit den auf Papyrus erhaltenen Privatbriefen m chte ich hier einige Korrekturvorschl ge zu griechischen Briefen aus der Berliner Papyrussammlung mitteilen. Die berpr fung der Originale erfolgte w hrend eines Forschungsaufenthaltes in Berlin Ende September 2007. Die Texte werden nach ihren Editionsnummern besprochen. Aus Platzgr nden verzichte ich auf die Erw hnung banaler Fehler wie etwa falsche Akzentuierungen und Aufl sungen von Abk rzungen.

A Ptolemaic Petition by a Royal Farmer Concerning the Postponement of Legal Proceedings before the Laokritai

P.Vindob. G 60499 consists of three fragments of varying size. Fragment l is a medium brown, square-shaped papyrus fragment with numerous holes across its surface. The original document had a narrow and long shape. The papyrus, the quality of which is somewhat coarse, has been extracted from cartonage. The text is written along the fibres and the verso is blank. The ink is black and its thickness varies considerably. The scribe obviously dipped his kalamos numerous times in the process of writing the text. The surface is abraded in places and the ink slightly smudged. The dimensions of fragment l are 12.8 x 11.4 cm. The right, bottom and left margins have been preserved intact, while the top of the document with an uncertain number of lines has been lost. The width of the left margin varies between 1.5 and 1.3 cm. The lines end at an irregulär distance from the right edge. The bottom margin measures approximately 2.5 cm. On the right hand side, in some lines (11. 2, 4, 5, 7) the writing almost reaches the right edge of the papyrus. Under the same inventory number, two smaller papyrus fragments have also been catalogued, which we publish here äs fragments 2 and 3, together with fragment 1. Fragment 2 measures 0.8 x 7.2 cm and contains the left margin and the beginning of two lines of text in a poor state of preservation. Fragment 3 (0.3 x 3.2 cm) contains traces of approximately seven letters, which cannot be deciphered with certainty, from the middle of a line. It is unclear whether these two smaller fragments once formed part of the same document äs fragment 1. However, äs far äs fragment 2 is concerned, the different width of the left margin from that in fragment l strongly suggests that fragment 2 was originally part of a different document and merely became associated with fragment l in the papyrus cartonage. As for fragment 3, although one might feel tempted to place it in line