Description
P.Oxy. LXXXIV marks a new departure for the series: it is the first to publish texts in Egyptian. One is a Greek-Coptic paraphrase of Homer's Iliad, the other a sale of house property in Demotic accompanied by a Greek tax receipt. Section I presents extensive remains of a set of codices of the Septuagint. Section II includes a miscellany of new literary and subliterary texts: remnants of post-Classical hexameter poetry, a possible fragment of Middle comedy with an Anacreontic theme, and a cento of Homeric verses on the myth of Daphne. The seventeen papyri of Apollonius Rhodius published in Section III, providing some two dozen new readings, confirm the Argonautica's status as the most popular epic poem in Roman Egypt after the Homeric and Hesiodic classics. The papyri of Apollonius are complemented by a painting of a wheeled float carrying the Argonauts, perhaps an illustration of a local spectacle. Section IV publishes twenty declarations of livestock from the first and second centuries, and the largest number of accounts from the 'Apion archive' since vol. XVI. The global figures for the Apion estate's income, expenditure, and tax payments offer fresh data to steer and inform the lively debate about the economy of this prominent Oxyrhynchite institution.
In a first for the series, P. Oxy LXXXIV publishes two texts in Egyptian, a Greek-Coptic paraphrase of Homer's Iliad and the sale of house property in Demotic. The volume further presents extensive remains of a set of codices of the Septuagint, a miscellany of new literary and subliterary texts; and the largest number of accounts published from the 'Apion archive' since vol. XVI, offering 'hard data' on the estate's income, expenditure, and tax payments.
About the Author
Amin Benaissa is Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University. Nikolaos Gonis is Professor of Papyrology in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. W. Benjamin Henry is a Research Associate in the same departement. Micaela Langellotti is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780856982460
Author Amin Benaissa
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Egypt Exploration Society
Publisher Egypt Exploration Society
Weight(grams) 1102g
In a first for the series, P. Oxy LXXXIV publishes two texts in Egyptian, a Greek-Coptic paraphrase of Homer's Iliad and the sale of house property in Demotic. The volume further presents extensive remains of a set of codices of the Septuagint, a miscellany of new literary and subliterary texts; and the largest number of accounts published from the 'Apion archive' since vol. XVI, offering 'hard data' on the estate's income, expenditure, and tax payments.
About the Author
Amin Benaissa is Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University. Nikolaos Gonis is Professor of Papyrology in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. W. Benjamin Henry is a Research Associate in the same departement. Micaela Langellotti is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780856982460
Author Amin Benaissa
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Egypt Exploration Society
Publisher Egypt Exploration Society
Weight(grams) 1102g
