BULLETIN THE OF THE
AMERICAN SOCIETY PAPYROLOGISTS OF
Volume 53 2016
ISSN 0003-1186
E-ISSN 1938-6958
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R.P. Salomons. P. Cair. Preis.
2. Papyrologica Bruxellensia 35. Brux- elles: Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2014. x + 120 pages.
ISBN 978-2-9600834-1-5.
This book is a re-edition of 35 out of the 48 papyri published by Fried- rich Preisigke in 1911 as Griechische Urkunden des Ägyptischen Museums zu Kairo (P.Cair.Preis.).
1As usual in those days, the papyri were published without translation and plates and with often only scanty notes; only a few parallel texts were known at the time. The images were later published in a separate volume by Soheir el Sawy and A. Bülow-Jacobsen, The Cairo-Preisigke Papyri – Plates (Cairo 1987). After more than 100 years these still interesting texts badly needed an up-date. Salomons has republished the papyri with the now usual introduction, notes and translation.
All papyri in this book come from the Roman period, except 37 from the third century BCE. Most texts are of an administrative or legal character and stem from the Arsinoite or Hermopolite nome; three (32, 43, 48) from the Oxyrhynchite and one from the Memphite (10) nome. A quick overview: 1 (147 - ca. 150 CE), part of a report of proceedings about a fugitive slave girl:
mostly about the liability of the vendor and mentioning the known attorneys Lykarion and Kallineikos; found in Bacchias in the Arsinoite nome, although the lawsuit was probably held in Oxyrhynchus or even Alexandria – for com- pleteness’ sake the Greek of the tiny detached fragment SB 14.11397, later found to belong to this papyrus, might have been cited as well; 2–3 (362 CE), duplicate petitions to the riparii on the break-up of a marriage by the mother- in-law, who gave away her daughter in marriage to another man; 5 (II CE), summons of, probably, a strategos to an archephodos to send up eleven people;
9 (242-243 CE), official letter from a Royal Scribe to a strategos (?) concerning
revenues of the Idios Logos;
210 (145-146 or 159-160 CE), census return; 11 (163-164 CE), copy of a list with names of tax collectors, written in red ink with remains of seals or stamps; 12 (after 161 CE), judicial decisions granting permission to use agricultural land for building up, among others, a grave and
1 The remaining thirteen texts had in the mean time already been republished else- where by others. Only the references to these new publications are given, including relevant Berichtigungsliste entries and recent literature.
2 At the end of line 3 probably read καθελ̣[θόντων; cf. the false aspiration in καθερχομέν[ῃ] in P.Corn. 39.5 and ἐφελ̣ε̣ύ̣[σ]ε̣σθα̣ι̣ in P.Oxy. 36.2768.32 cited by F.T.
Gignac, A Grammar of the Greek Papyri 1 (1975) 137; or else καθελ̣[τόντων with trans- position of the consonants τ and θ. The meaning “passing to” (of property) certainly fits the Idios Logos also known for confiscations, and cf. e.g. τῶν κατελθόντων εἰς τὸ ταμῖον, l. ταμεῖον, in P. Beatty Panop. 1.8.206.
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two cisterns; 15 (362 CE?), sworn surety for the nomination of a water-guard, sent by a komarch in the form of a letter to the riparii-chomatepeiktai; 16-17 (ca.
320 CE), duplicate declaration of bouleutai swearing to stand surety for another bouleutes to deliver meat for the troops; 18-19 (340 CE), duplicates of a list of persons qualified to be nominated as sitologi; 20 (356-357 CE), provisional list, written in five different hands, of liturgists, with their guarantors, for the East Town quarter of Hermopolis; 21-25 (II CE), tax receipts;
326 (148 CE), penthemeros certificate for work done in the canal of Sebennytos;
427-28 (172 and 173 CE), acknowledgements by sitologi of the receipt of grain;
532 (116 CE) is the official confirmation of the return of a will; 33 (341 CE), receipt for the ναῦλον-tax towards maritime sea freight and other taxes; 34 (311-312 CE), combining P.Rain.Cent. 83 and SB 16.12340, register of copies of bills of lading of various commodities levied from taxpayers;
635 (53 CE), a receipt of rent in grain; 36 (180-181/212-213 CE), short letter about the collection of arrears of poll-tax; 37 (254-231 BCE?), sale of three cows; 38 (IV CE), work contract;
41 (300-350 CE), land lease, possibly connected with the archive of Aurelia
Charite; 42 (III/IV CE), synchorema, formerly called donatio mortis causa, a cession of part of a house meant to take effect after the owner’s death; 43 (59 CE), repayment of a fictitious loan (actually deferred payment of a sale), with note of an employee of the notary’s office written along the top – belongs to the archive of the weaver Tryphon; 45 (ca. 340 CE), account of expenses connected with an estate; 47 (300-350 CE), fragment of land-survey list; 48 (II CE), pri- vate letter stemming from an oasis and mentioning the search for a small boat.
3 Instead of μ(ητρός) in 21.5 and 23.5, I prefer the transcription μη(τρός) (as indeed supplemented in 22.3), since the horizontal part of the sign represents the μ and the vertical part the η. The same goes for 26.7. At the end of 21.5 I would prefer Preisigke’s reading Ταμο̣ύ̣θ(εως) over Salomons’ Ταμύσθ̣(ας), but, admittedly, in handwriting with Verschleifung one can never be certain. In 21.6 the horizontal stroke following the α of (Πρώτων) is left out in the apparatus criticus; remove the superfluous bracket at the end of 21.7. In 22.1 instead of Καίσα̣[ρος τοῦ κυρίου] read Καίσ(αρος) τ̣̣οῦ̣ [κυρίου]
(which also fits the lacuna better).
4 In 26.5, instead of Σεβενν̣ύ̣τ̣(ιδι) rather resolve Σεβενν̣ύ̣τ̣(ου), since the adjective normally comes in front of the word for canal.
5 In 27.12 the reading ἔπα̣ι̣τ[ον . . ] . . [εἰς is not convincing; the editio princeps had ξ̣υσ̣τ(ῷ) [ἔπαιτον εἰς, which is at least more or less expected after the parallel text 28, but ξ̣υσ̣τ(ῷ) is also hard to retrace on the photograph. In line 11, remove the superfluous bracket after (ἔτους). In 28.12 the fraction 1/6 is not abbreviated as ἕ(κτον) but written with the number ϛ (stigma) followed by a slash.
6 In 34A.11 there is no need to change the original reading of P.Rain.Cent. 83 from ] λί̣(τρας) into λ]ί̣(τρας): as usual, the abbreviation is written with the lambda over the iota, and both letters are still visible on the photograph.
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Although the contents of these papyri were more or less known to most Greek papyrologists, they may be new for other ancient historians or legal historians, who were perhaps not always able to read papyri directly from the Greek transcription. And also for papyrologists this new study of the texts offers updated and sometimes new interpretations, many bibliographical ref- erences and additional information such as a list of riparii as an appendix to text 2-3, a list of summonses appended to text 5 and a list of revocations of wills to text 32.
Salomons revised the original transcriptions of the papyri with the help of the digital images of the Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum, mostly digitized black and white images.
7This cannot have been an easy task, since many texts are incomplete and written in very cursive hands. Notwith- standing the mass of corrections and additions already gathered over the years in the Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten (BL), Band I-XII, Salomons has managed to add many new readings and interpreta- tions of his own. Probably for clarity’s sake, references to rejected readings of the editio princeps or to accepted or rejected BL-corrections are not included in the apparatus criticus, and only when necessary mentioned in the commen- tary. For paleographical commentary one is referred to Preisigke’s remarks in the original edition. Had these details been copied from the old into the new edition, consulting the original edition might have become superfluous.
8A material description is still lacking: the original papyri, housed in Cairo, could not be inspected. The book ends with a bibliography and the usual indexes.
Rob Salomons took up the task of re-editing P.Cair.Preis. after his retire- ment from his combined jobs at a Dutch high school and university. We are grateful to him for making available (and at a very affordable price) these still interesting and often-cited texts in an updated and modernized format – not only for new generations of papyrologists but, thanks to the addition of com- mentaries, context and English translations, now also for a wider circle of researchers of ancient history and law.
Papyrological Institute, Leiden University Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk
7 Online available at http://ipap.csad.ox.ac.uk/index.shtml or through the individual entries of each text in Papyri.info (accessed December 2015).
8 The 1911 edition of P.Cair.Preis. can be downloaded at https://archive.org/details/
griechischeurkun00preiuoft (accessed December 2015).
