Select Papyri, Volume I

Private Documents

ISBN: 978-0-674-99294-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 117 mm x 166 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: Loeb Classical Library

Personal records from the sands of Egypt. This is the first of two volumes giving a selection of Greek papyri relating to private and public business. They cover a period from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD. Most were found in rubbish heaps or remains of ancient houses or in tombs in Egypt. From such papyri we get much information about administration and social and economic conditions in Egypt, and about native Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine law, as well as glimpses of ordinary life. This volume contains: Agreements, 71 examples; these concern marriage, divorce, adoption, apprenticeship, sales, leases, employment of laborers. Receipts, 10. Wills, 6. Deed of disownment. Personal letters from men and women, young and old, 82. Memoranda, 2. Invitations, 5. Orders for payment, 2. Agenda, 2. Accounts and inventories, 12. Questions of oracles, 3. Christian prayers, 2. A Gnostic charm. Horoscopes, 2. The three-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of Select Papyri also includes a volume of poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hunt, A. S.

Edgar, C. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Edgar, C. C.
Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938) was Director of Egyptian Antiquities in the Cairo Museum.

Hunt, A. S.
Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871–1934) was a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.