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Journal of Juristic Papyrology, vol. L (2020), p. 67–107, 2020
Among the sixteen Ptolemaic texts (33–44) from the collection of the Greek papyri of the Department of Classics at Stanford are petitions, official correspondence, letters, a declaration of surety with royal oath – one the earliest dated texts in the collection (227 BC) ¬– and an account. Most notable is the discovery of the upper part of P. Köln VI 261, a petition to the oikonomos Apollonios (33 + 18) about oil-contraband and prisoners of war. Another petition is addressed to the oikonomos Poseidonios (Prosopographia Ptolemaica I/VIII 1079) about the wool tax (34), while text (35), a draft written with an Egyptian rush, reports an effraction at night with arson. The official correspondence deals with tax-farming and oil-bearing products. (http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/10/newly-open-access-journal-journal-of.html)
The Classical Review, 2012
For students of Athenian legal and social history the title of this book must have been a blow to the stomach. Ever since the nineteenth century, a certainty has reigned that the so-called phialai-inscriptions, the subject of M.'s monograph, refer to manumitted slaves. The seminal work of D.M. Lewis, one of the fi nest servants of Attic epigraphy, appeared to have elevated this certainty to axiomatic levels. This set of formulaic texts, we were trained to believe, gave us indisputable evidence of the strength of epigraphy as a corrective to the distorting picture that inevitably derives from our elite-biased literary sources. It refl ects a world of vine-dressers and donkey-drivers, of sesame-sellers and ex-prostitute woolworkers, slaves who had against all odds, or, on a different interpretation, with the collusion of their ex-masters (whose names are also recorded), acquired their longed-for freedom. Grateful and pious, each one of them, male or female, old or young, had to dedicate a silver bowl (phialê) weighing 100 drachmas, celebrating his/ her freedom and thanking the gods, while, conveniently, fi lling the coffers of the Athenian state. All of a sudden, an excellent scholar, albeit one whom most have hitherto tended to identify as a Roman historian, has audaciously suggested that the 'Attic Manumissions', another telling moniker of the inscriptions in question, have (almost) nothing to do with slaves.
Torn remains, abraded in places, of two consecutive columns of a commentary on Iliad V written in black ink on the recto of a light brown papyrus sheet which is broken off on all four sides; evidently, the papyrus sheet once formed part of a book roll. 1 Fr. 1 is a composite of four smaller pieces (a-d) which are more or less secure-ly placed in relation to the Homeric text. Although fr. 2 (e) cannot be joined cleanly to the main text, it appears to have broken away from the upper left--hand part of col. i. Column width variably c. 13-14.5 cm; height of column unknown but at least 22 cm, occupied by at least 54 lines. Intercolumnium c. 1-2 cm. 2 Bottom--margin at least 2.5 cm high. A first sheet--join is at 1.6 cm from the left edge, a second at 3.8 cm from the right edge of the papyrus. Four damaged lines on the verso.