... of the monthly sacrifices to the Royal House and to the Dioscuri. ¹⁶ Next come two late third-century bce papyri from a village in the Arsinoite nome. ¹⁷ They are both petitions to the king, concerning the payment of the so-called taphikon, the indemnity...

...The Alcaic stanza was written in four lines, and was conceived as a four-verse unit, from the Alexandrian period to the middle of the 20th century. Horace had been the paramount authority before the papyri were discovered, while Hephaestion gave theoretical support to this layout by providing...

...The history of structuring and reading books is surveyed in the Greek 3rd century and the Latin 1st century BC. Many illustrations of papyri are given. Papyri are seen to show ways of reading that relate juxtaposed items and pursue sequences; the composition of the interconnected book is linked...

... of evidence, and are treated in particular detail (especially Herodian). The other sources surveyed are accent marks in papyri; fragments of ancient Greek music displaying correlations between word accents and musical melody; accentuation of medieval manuscripts; and the evidence for early medieval...

...Following the quantitative evidence where it may be found (papyri, marble portraits, ancient citations, medieval copies), the chapter studies the form of the ancient canon. This can be understood in terms of the libraries in which it was preserved (some authors, such as Homer and probably also...

...This chapter provides an overview of the sources and composition of the Book of the Dead papyri of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty based on selected examples. The analysis focuses on the formal design of the manuscripts, which is mainly determined by format and layout. However, the choice of script...

...Figure 7.1. List of symbols. The first part of this article deals with abbreviations found in Greek documentary papyri and ostraca. The documents in which abbreviation is rife are predominantly those produced on a massive scale and bound to repeat the same words, such as tax accounts...

.../60 pound = 4.8 grammata 1 solidus (post-Constantine) = 1/72 pound = 4 grammata = 24 carats Both editors and readers of papyri, even if they know well the language in which their texts are written, constantly encounter reminders that these artifacts come from...

...The sciences that are significantly attested among the papyri are mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and astrology. Medicine and astrology were professions with numerous practitioners who possessed collections of reference texts and whose activity involved producing written documents. Astronomy had...

... and life histories of collections, the uses of the imperial collection, the Villa of the Papyri, the works of Philodemus, and the danger faced by the Roman book rolls. —size of Serenus Sammonicus Shelves —accuracy of Exemplar Forgeries —durability of —histories of Dictation —imperial at Antium...

... corpus of Coptic papyri (about 3,300 items) can be attributed to the region (Delattre 2005–), with the result that the site is one of the best documented in antiquity. Nationally aligned institutions jockeyed to establish prominent collections under a greater or lesser pretense of scholarship...

... similarities with hieratic, as the latter can be seen as a cursive variant of monumental hieroglyphs. The Book of the Dead cursive occurs on a number of sources, the most popular of which are papyri and linen; however, when tomb walls and coffins are decorated with spells of funerary magic, the latter...

... location of the performer. By contrast, self-labeling is much rarer and appears only in limited kinds of evidence, such as the Greek Magical Papyri, but the cue of extraordinary efficacy is the most important, and claims to extraordinary social location tend to be secondary to it. The appearance...

... in their daily life. In Egypt, numerous Aramaic papyri and ostraca from Elephantine reveal that the Judean garrison staying there was strongly aramaicized even though they prayed and sacrificed in a Yaho temple and kept their Judean ethnicity. A few funerary stelae discovered in Ayios Georghiou at Larnaca-Kition...

... is a further consequence of the archaeologically driven patterns of the survival of papyri. It chooses slavery to illustrate this point and explore its consequences. The chapter explains that the reason for this choice is above all that this institution and its consequences are perennial objects of profound...

... by looking at the case of Coptic because, despite recent discoveries in both Syriac and Bactrian, the Egyptian papyri provided for Coptic a depth of documentation unavailable elsewhere. The chapter notes that the quantity of documentary Coptic published so far, measured in raw numbers of texts, is a fraction...

..., and a short bibliographical essay. Conon Narratives Diegeseis Narratives Conon Photius and Narratives of Conon rationalization Conon Diegeseis Narratives Greek mythography Photius Greek papyri Our knowledge of Conon derives entirely from his work, a collection of fifty short mythographical...

...This chapter deals with other mythography on papyrus. It first discusses the various forms and contents of the papyri, distinguishing between narratives, lists and catalogues, and other forms, such as monographs and catechisms. Then it deals with the function of these texts in society, where...

... Homer narration and mythography under the rhetor rhetor mythography under the confirmation and mythography under the rhetor refutation and mythography under the rhetor composition and mythography under the rhetor grammaticus rhetor education Quintilian Dionysius Thrax papyri school exercises...

...0 04 03 2004 work: This is one of several papyri found in the late nineteenth century at Bousiris (Abusir el-Meleq), in the ancient Herakleopolite nome (administrative district) of Egypt, that appear, largely by virtue of the persons named, to refer to Jews/Judeans. The names of the wet nurse...