Lajos Berkes

Classical and Biblical Culture in Late Antique Egypt: Some Notes

Abstract This article discusses P.Gen. 4.159, a hexametric enkomion from the 6th c. AD, an allusion to Job in the petition, P.Cair. Masp. 1.67002 (567, Aphrodito) and the first attestation of the word prosynaxis in papyri (SB 18.13272).

Bemerkungen zu Papyri XXIV

BGU II 367 BGU VI 1310, 1356 O.Heid. 447 P.Erl. 56 P.Gen. IV 180, 184, 203 P.Iand. III 38 P.Kellis IV 96 P.Oxy. I 156 und P.Ant. III 196 P.Oxy. XVIII 2206 P.Oxy. XXXI 2584 SPP III 635 P.Koln XII 478 P.Coll.Youtie II 95 P.Poethke 38 P.Brux. Inv. E. 7191 P.Eirene III 1, 10 P.Narm. 2006, Nr. 23 P.Oslo II 24 P.Oslo III 131 SB VIII 9881 SB XXIV 15969 P.Oxy. XLII 3050

A Trilingual Scribe from Abbasid Egypt? A Note on CPR XXII 17

A part of CPR XXII 17, 1b was identified in the edition as pen trial. It is, however, written in Arabic. This note argues that the Arabic part was written by the same scribe as the Greek and the Coptic passages in the papyrus. This revelation throws light on how Greek, Coptic and Arabic were simultaneously used in early Islamic Egypt and suggests that there might have been scribes who were capable of handling all three languages very efficiently.