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THE
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OF THE
AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF
PAPYROLOGISTS
Volume 48 2011
ISSN 0003-1186
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THE
BULLETIN
OF THE
AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF
PAPYROLOGISTS
Volume 48
2011
Editorial Committee: Peter van Minnen, Timothy Renner, Jitse Dijkstra
Reviews Editor: AnneMarie Luijendijk
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Contents
Six Homeric Papyri from Oxyrhynchus at Columbia University
Charles Bartlett, Susan Boland, Lauren Carpenter, Stephen Kidd, Inger
Kuin, and Melanie Subacus .............................................................................7
Two More Pages of Crosby-Schøyen Codex MS 193: A Pachomian Easter
Lectionary?
Albert Pietersma and Susan Comstock ........................................................27
Apprenticeship Contract for Carpentry
Chris Eckerman ..............................................................................................47
Letter from Hermias to Apollon
Athanassios Vergados .....................................................................................51
Petition to Appoint an epitropos: A New Document from the Archive of
Aurelius Adelphios
Ryan Boehm ....................................................................................................61
A Byzantine Loan of Money
Klaas A. Worp ................................................................................................71
A Marriage-Gift of Part of a Monastery from Byzantine Egypt
Jason Robert Combs and Joseph G. Miller ...................................................79
Receipt from the Holy Church of God at Hermopolis
Philip Venticinque ..........................................................................................89
The Dossier of Flavia Anastasia, Part One: Document Prescripts
T.M. Hickey and Brendan J. Haug ................................................................99
Dreams in Bilingual Papyri from the Ptolemaic Period
Stephen Kidd ................................................................................................113
Two Texts of the dioiketes Apollonius
Kent J. Rigsby ...............................................................................................131
Departure without Saying Goodbye: A Lexicographical Study
Willy Clarysse ..............................................................................................141
Grenfell and Hunt on the Dates of Early Christian Codices: Setting the
Record Straight
Brent Nongbri ..............................................................................................149
Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements:
A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets
Theodore S. de Bruyn and Jitse H.F. Dijkstra ...........................................163
The Date of the Dendur Foundation Inscription Reconsidered
Grzegorgz Ochala ........................................................................................217
Notes on Papyri ...................................................................................................225
Review Article
Byzantine Egypt Revisited
Giuseppina Azzarello ..................................................................................233
Reviews
Holger Kockelmann, Untersuchungen zu den späten Totenbuch-Handschrif-
ten auf Mumienbinden. Vol. 1 (in two parts): Die Mumien binden und
Leinenamulette des memphitischen Priesters Hor. Vol. 2: Handbuch zu
den Mumienbinden und Leinenamuletten
(Richard Jasnow) ........................................................................................245
Maren Schentuleit and Günter Vittmann, „Du hast mein Herz zufrieden-
gestellt...“ Ptolemäerzeitliche demotische Urkunden aus Soknopaiu Nesos
(Andrew Monson) ......................................................................................251
Stanley E. und Wendy J. Porter, New Testament Greek Papyri and Parch-
ments: New Editions. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Öster-
reichischen Nationalbibliothek, N.S. 29 (Text) und 30 (Tafeln)
(Amphilochios Papathomas) ....................................................................255
Adam Bülow-Jacobsen, Mons Claudianus. Ostraca graeca et latina IV: The
Quarry-Texts. O. Claud. 632-896
(Amphilochios Papathomas) ....................................................................259
D. Obbink and N. Gonis (eds.), The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 73
(Athanassios Vergados) .............................................................................265
H. Maehler, C.E. Römer, and R. Hatzilambrou (eds.), The Oxyrhynchus
Papyri 75
(Jennifer Sheridan Moss) ...........................................................................271
Federico Morelli, L’ archivio di Senouthios anystes e testi connessi. Lettere e
documenti per la costruzione di una capitale
(James G. Keenan) ......................................................................................273
Anne Boud’hors, James Clackson, Catherine Louis, and Petra Sij pesteijn
(eds.), Monastic Estates in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt: Ostraca,
Papyri, and Essays in Memory of Sarah Clackson (P.Clackson)
(L.S.B. MacCoull) .......................................................................................277
Francesca Schironi, From Alexandria to Babylon: Near Eastern Languages
and Hellenistic Erudition in the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (P.Oxy. 1802 +
4812)
(Sofía Torallas Tovar) .................................................................................283
A. Magnani, Il processo di Isidoro. Roma e Alessandria nel primo secolo
(Sandra Gambetti) ......................................................................................285
Richard L. Phillips, In Pursuit of Invisibility: Ritual Texts from Late Roman
Egypt
(Sarah L. Schwarz) ......................................................................................289
Franziska Naether, Die Sortes Astrampsychi. Problemlösungsstrategien durch
Orakel im römischen Ägypten
(Willy Clarysse) ..........................................................................................293
Jan Krzysztof Winnicki, Late Egypt and Her Neighbours: Foreign Population
in Egypt in the First Millennium BC
(Günter Vittmann) .....................................................................................297
J.G. Manning, The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC
(Arthur Verhoogt) ......................................................................................305
Sitta von Reden, Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest
to the End of the Third Century BC
(Bart Van Beek) ...........................................................................................307
Heinz Heinen, Kleopatra-Studien. Gesammelte Schriften zur ausgehenden
Ptolemäerzeit
(Dorothy J. Thompson) ..............................................................................311
Inge Uytterhoeven, Hawara in the Graeco-Roman Period: Life and Death in a
Fayum Village, with an Appendix on the Pottery from Hawara by Sylvie
Marchand
(Eugene Cruz-Uribe) .................................................................................315
Gihane Zaki, Le Premier Nome de Haute-Égypte du IIIe siècle avant J.-C. au
VIIe siècle après J.-C. d’après les sources hiéroglyphiques des temples ptolé-
maïques et romains
(Jitse H.F. Dijkstra) .....................................................................................317
Leslie S.B. MacCoull, Coptic Legal Documents: Law as Vernacular Text and
Experience in Late Antique Egypt
(Michael Peppard) ......................................................................................321
Books Received ...................................................................................................325
American Studies in Papyrology ......................................................................327

Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011) 7-26
Six Homeric Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
at Columbia University
Charles Bartlett, Susan Boland New York University
Lauren Carpenter Fordham University
Stephen Kidd, Inger Kuin, Melanie Subacus New York University
Abstract
Edition of six fragmentary papyri from Oxyrhynchus with the Iliad
and the Odyssey, previously described in P.Oxy. 3.534, 536-539, and
P.Oxy. 6.950. The dates range from the second to the third century CE.
1. Homer, Iliad 1.1-15
columbia.apis.p1328 H x W = 12.6 x 18.8 cm early III CE
P.Oxy. 3.534 descr.; MP³ 559; LDAB 1989; Allen no. 0109; West no. 01091
The Egypt Exploration Society gave this papyrus, described in P.Oxy. 3
(1903), to Columbia University in 1908.2 The fragment carries part of a single
column containing the first 15 lines of the first book of the Iliad (recto; the
verso is blank). Part of the bottom margin is preserved (to a depth of 2 cm at
most), suggesting that the entire column was a mere 15 lines; but as Grenfell
and Hunt noted, first columns are often short. The right-hand intercolumnar
space is preserved up to 1.7 cm. The width of this first column can be calculated
to have been roughly 13.5 cm, or slightly more than its 10.8 cm height.3 The
1 The texts of the six papyri in this article have been collated with the editions of
T.W. Allen, Homeri Ilias (Oxford 1931), and M.L. West, Homeri Ilias (Stuttgart-Leipzig
1998).
2 P.Oxy. 5, p. 317. The note on custodial history found in APIS (“Purchased by Co-
lumbia University from M. Nahman through H.I. Bell, in Bell’s inventory”) is due to a
confusion over the inventory number assigned to it there, 202c (4), which refers to a
“packet of fragments” purchased through H.I. Bell in 1924 (which originated from the
acquisitions of Dr. David Askren, not M. Nahman).
3 This width falls within the average range of column widths for hexameter verses,
11-14 cm according to W.A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto
2004) 116.
8 Bartlett, Boland, Carpenter, Kidd, Kuin, and Subacus
opulent layout and elegant hand of this papyrus give the impression that it was
part of a very fine bookroll.
The text is written along the fibres in a formal Severe or Mixed Style in
strict bilinearity, with υ, ρ, and ψ dipping below the bottom line. The hand is
slow, lacking any cursive elements, and is especially remarkable for its luxuri-
ous spacing between letters, which often amounts to between a half letter-
width and a full letter-width. The hand inclines slightly to the right and shows
the variation in letter size that is characteristic of the Severe Style (e.g. narrow
c, ε, θ versus broad η, μ, ν). Shading and other decoration are generally avoided.
This papyrus compares well with P.Oxy. 47.3323 (Iliad 15), as well as P.Oxy.
48.3374 (Herodotus) and P.Oxy. 69.4731 (Isocrates), although the hand of our
papyrus is less inclined and more formal than these latter two examples (see
especially α). As P.Oxy. 47.3323 is dated to II/III CE, P.Oxy. 48.3374 to late II/
early III CE, and P.Oxy. 69.4731 to the first half of III CE, a reasonable estimated
date for this hand would be early III CE.
The papyrus is in bad condition, rendering autopsy indispensable. Much
of the ink has been worn away, with the remaining script quite faded. Lectional
signs are written with more than one pen (compare the difference, e.g., between
the acute accent and the elision marked after μυρί’ in line 2). Ηigh dots mark
the ends of lines at 10, 13, and 15. Although there is one spelling mistake, the
text follows the vulgate.
– – – – – – – – – – – 
] Πηλ̣ηιαδεω Αχιλ[ηοc
] μυρ̣ί’ αχαιõc αλγ̣ε εθη̣[κε
ιφθιμου]c̣ [ψ]υχαc Άιδι προιαψ[εν
] αυτουc̣ δε̣ ε̣[λ]ω[ρι]α τε̣υ̣χ̣ε̣ κ[υνεccιν
5 οιωνοιc]ι τε̣ πα[cι Διοc] δ [ετε]λει[ετο
δ]η̣ [τα] π̣[ρωτα] δ̣[ιαστ]η[την ερισ]α̣ν̣[τε
] α̣[ναξ] α̣νδ[ρ]ων κα[ι διο]c Αχ[ιλλευc
c]φω[ε] θ̣εω̣ν̣ [ερ]ιδ[ι ξ]υ[νεηκε
κ]α[ι Δ]ιο̣c υ[ιο]c̣ ọ γ̣α̣[ρ β]α̣σ̣[ιληι] χ̣ο̣λ̣[ωθ]ειc̣
10 ] ω̣[ρc]ε κ̣[ακην] ολ[εκοντο δε λαο]ι·
Χρυ]c̣[ην] ητιμ[αcε]ν αρη̣τ[ηρα
] γ̣αρ̣ η̣λ̣θ̣ε θο̣αc̣ [επι] νη̣αc Αχα[ι]ω̣ν̣
λυ̣ομενο]c τε θυγατρα [φερ]ων [τ’] απερε̣ιc̣ [ι’ α]ποινα·
] ε[χ]ων [ε]ν̣ χε[ρcι]ν εκη̣βολου Απολλωνοc
15 ] α̣ν̣[α] cκ̣η̣[π]τρ̣ ω̣[ι] και ελιc̣ cετο πανταc Αχαιουc·
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