Peter van Minnen

BEMERKUNGEN ZU PAPYRI XXVIII

Notes to Amaron Anompis BGU I 188 BGU IV 1200 BGU VII 1589, 1610 BGU XIII 2339 Kallapis and Krales Kaninios and Moros Mehr verkannte Numeralsubstantive bei Tagesdaten Mystharios Pachnout(h)is Pamonios Patar(e)us P.Gen. IV 169, 184, 187, 189, 199, 202, 204 (SB XVI 12822) P.Monts.Roca IV 96 PSI VII 771 P.Cair. inv. (CG) 10113 (= ZPE 190 [2014] 227ff.) P.Cair.Preis.2 38 P.Fay. 224 P.Genova V 204 P.Mich. inv. 4004A–D (= BASP 46 (2009) 35ff.) P.Mil. Vogl. VII 304 P.Mich. inv. 4004E (= BASP 46 (2009) 55f.) P.Oxy. XII 1447 P.Oxy. XVI 1856, 2031 P.Oxy. XVIII 2207 P.Princ. III 120, 158 PSI I 47, 58, 61 PSI III 165, 180 PSI VIII 948 PSI X 1122 & P.Michael. 35 PSI XIV 1427 PSI XVI 1634, 1642 SB XIV 11591, 11592, 11593 SB XX 14300 SB XXII 15241, 15271, 15273 Semthoemois Sisous Some papyrological ghostnames

ADNOTATIONES EPIGRAPHICAE VI

Die Abteilung bietet Raum fur kleinere Beitrage zur Lesung und Deutung griechischer und lateinischer Inschriften sowie zur Fund- bzw. Uberlieferungsgeschichte und physischen Beschreibung epigraphischer Monumente. Zusendungen an die Redaktion sind herzlich willkommen.

Saving History? Egyptian Hagiography in Its Space and Time

Egyptian hagiography, just as other kinds of hagiography, originates in a certain time and place. The problem is that we can rarely pin down what part of the evidence is early and what evidence derives from later developments. We also often do not know where exactly the evidence comes from. In this paper, I will first discuss some of the problems this poses in dealing with Egyptian hagiography as a source of history, then I will argue that it is a kind of history after all: from about 400, when Egyptian hagiography takes off, it consistently provides a totalizing explanation for what had happened in the course of the fourth century: people had turned from paganism to Christianity, but no one had taken much notice while it happened. Egyptian hagiography does not build on authentic memory of what had happened in the fourth century, but amounts to an imaginative explanation-after-the-fact, largely inspired by the Bible and other literature.

Drei Kaiserbriefe Gordians 111. an die Bürger von Antinoopolis. P.Vindob. G 25945

Der Papyrus, den wir hier publizieren, enthalt Kopien von drei KaiserbriefenGordians III. an die Antinoiten (von uns A, B und C genannt). Der am vollstandigstenerhaltene Brief, B, ist von E. Boswinkel auf dem 12. Internationalen Papyrologenkongres in Ann Arbor besprochen worden I. Wir sind ihm dankbar, das er uns die Publikation dieses Papyrus anvertraut hat.