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THE
OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRI
VOLUME LXxxVI
EDITED WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BY
A. BENAISSA M. ZELLMANN-ROHRER
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
S. A. ADAMS Ε. CHEPEL 5. Focarty
W. B. Henry F. Herrero VaLpés B. C. LaAnpau
D. MONTSERRAT P. J. Parsons E. F. Rossetti
5. Roussou G. S. SMITH T. WayMENT
Graeco-Roman Memoirs, No. 107
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THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY
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2021
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PREFACE
This volume contains editions of forty-one texts, theological, literary and subliterary
(chiefly grammar and magic), and documentary, some of them of exceptional interest. 5333,
a codex of the First Apocalypse of James, is the sole extant Greek witness of this important early
Christian uncanonical text, previously known only from two Coptic versions. 5535 offers
short lives of four of Alexander's successors (Diadochoi); copied in the first century, it shows a
previously unattested stage of ancient biography before Plutarch. 5542 is a rare second-century
example of a Greek manual of exorcism, in which the Palaeo-Hebrew tetragram makes an un-
expected appearance. The parchment amulet 5547 casts an interesting sidelight on a complex
of myths about supernatural, later saintly protectors, Sisinnius and associates. Another side of
ancient magic is illuminated by the formulary 5543, where we seem to find a lover instructed
to call on Hecate to keep a woman from sleeping.
The twenty-four documents in Section III constitute a substantial body of new evidence
on slavery in the Roman world. They illustrate some typical life-patterns of the enslaved: slav-
ery from infancy (two slaves were abandoned infants rescued and entrusted to wet-nurses,
another was sold at the age of two), repeated sales, in some cases displacement across the Med-
iterranean, employment in weaving and wet-nursing, and, for the fortunate, manumission. Of
particular note are the two sale contracts concluded outside Egypt (5560 and 5567), which
would have reached Oxyrhynchus along with the slaves concerned; in other sales, we encoun-
ter slaves brought from Crete (5568), Mauretania (5569), and Phrygia (5557).
W. B. Henry revised the editions of 5332-4, 5336-8, and 5540-41, and closely read
all the others, making numerous improvements. He also compiled the indexes and typeset the
volume. D. Colomo helped with conservation and imaging, and commented on a number of
texts in sections I and 1].
We are grateful for financial support received from the British Academy, UK Research
and Innovation (COA Funding), and the Faculty of Classics and John Fell Fund, University
of Oxford. Benaissa further wishes to thank the Leverhulme Trust for supporting his research
through the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
A. BENAISSA
N. GONIS
October 2021
CONTENTS
PREFACE
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TABLE OF PApyRI BΚ΄
List oF PLaTEs
NUMBERS AND PLATES 7
NoTE ON THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION AND ABBREVIATIONS
TEXTS
I. THEo.ocicar Texts (5532-4)
. New LiTerary AND SUBLITERARY TEXTS:
(a) Biography, Commentary, and Grammar (5535-41)
(6) Magic (5542-8)
ΠῚ. Documentary TExts (5549-72)
INDEXES
THEOLOGICAL Texts (5533-4)
II. BrocrapHy, COMMENTARY, AND GRAMMAR (5535-41) 139
III. Maaic (5542-8) 141
RULERS 142
CONSULS 143
MonrTHs 143
Days 144
DaTEs 144
. PERSONAL NAMES 144
. GEOGRAPHICAL 148
RELIGION 149
. OFFICIAL AND MILITARY TERMS AND TITLES 149
PROFESSIONS, TRADES, AND OCCUPATIONS 149
MEASURES:
(a) Weights and Measures 149
(6) Money 149
TAXES 150
XVI. GENERAL INDEX OF WorDS 150
XVII. CORRECTIONS TO PUBLISHED Papyri 155
TABLE OF PAPYRI
I. THEOLOGICAL TEXTS
5532 Psalms 5.12—13, 6.11-7.2 SAA/WBH_ 6th cent.
5533 First Apocalypse of James BCL/GSS/ 41} or sth cent.
WBH
5534 = Christian Text TW 3rd cent. 13
I]. NEW LITERARY AND SUBLITERARY TEXTS
(a) BIOGRAPHY, COMMENTARY, AND GRAMMAR
5535 Lives of the Diadochoi PJP Ist cent. 16
5536 = Note on Aristophanes, Pax 143 EC 2nd cent. 27
5537 Ο Short and Long Syllables SR and cent. 30
5538 Grammatical Definitions and Declensions SR 4th cent. 32
5539 — Declension of ὁ Ὅμηρος WBH 2nd cent. 37
5540 Declension of ἡμέτερος ὑμέτερος εφέτερος ~=WBH/EFR 1st/2nd cent. 38
5541 Declension of ἡμέτερος ὑμέτερος εφέτερος }~=9WBH/EFR 4th or sth cent. 39
(6) MAGIC
5542 — Exorcism MZR 2nd cent. 42
5543 = Magical Formulary MZR/FHV Late 3rd cent. 46
5544 Amulet MZR 3rd cent. 49
5545 Amulet MZR Late 3rd cent. 52
5546 Curse against Zetous alias Kalemera MZR 3rd or 4th cent. 56
5547 Christian Amulet for Thecla MZR/FHV sth cent. 59
5548 = Magical Formulary MZR 6th cent. 62
III. DOCUMENTARY TEXTS
5549-72 Documents concerning Slaves AB 64
5549 Manumission of a Slave SF 23 Dec. 69 or 82 69
5550 Appointment of a Representative for the SF 25 Jul—z9 Aug. 84, 87,
71
Sale of a Slave 89, or 90
5551 _ Letter concerning a Missing Slave AB rst/and cent.
73
5552 _— Sale of a Slave AB 149-55
75
5553 Sale of a Nine-Year-Old Slave Girl AB 150-58/9 76
5554 Manumission of a Slave Boy AB 27 Mar.—25 Apr. 178
79
5555 _— Sale of a Two-Year-Old Slave Girl and AB 181/2 81
Related Documents
5556 Tax Receipt for a Manumission inter amicos SF 4 (Ὁ Mar. 184 86
5557 _—_ Sale of a Phrygian Slave AB Late 2nd/early 3rd cent. 88
5558 Report of Proceedings regarding the AB 201-10
90
Auctioning of Slaves
5559 Βεοείρι for Wet-nursing Wages SF First half of 3rd cent. 94
5560 — Sale of a Slave in a municipium AB 17 Feb. 217 96
5561 Registration of a Slave AB 25 Jul.—23 Aug., 222-34 99
TABLE OF PAPYRI
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5562 Apprenticeship of a Slave Girl to a Weaver AB 236/7 or 237/8 102
5563 Sale of a Foreign Slave AB 27 Dec. 252-25 Jan. 253 105
5564 Application for the Examination of a Slave AB 257/8 107
5565 δὶς of a Slave Woman AB 26 Apr.—25 May 279 109
5566 Application for the Examination of a Slave AB 25 Feb.-26 Mar. 281 114
5567 Sale of a Slave in Telmessus AB Oct. 290 115
5568-9 Two Sales of Slaves 118
5568 δὶς of a Cretan Slave AB 6 Jul. 290 119
5569 Sale of a Mauretanian Slave Woman AB 18 Jun. 295 124
5570 δαὶς of a Female Slave SF 293-305 130
557 [κεῖ of Ophis to Andronicus and Thonis DM Late 3rd cent. 133
5572 Sale of a Slave AB sth cent. 136
SAA_ = S.A. Adams DM _ =D. Montserrat
ΑΒ =A. Benaissa PJP =P J. Parsons
ΕΟ =E. Chepel EFR «=E. F Rossetti
SF =S. Fogarty 5Ὰ =S. Roussou
WBH = W. B. Henry GSS «6.5. Smith
FHV = F Herrero Valdés TW =T. Wayment
BCL = B.C. Landau MZR = M. Zellmann-Rohrer
LIST OF PLATES
Frontispiece 5569
I. 5533. -" Η -» VIII. 5538, 5548, 5564
Il. 553 00Ὲ} ΙΧ, 5539, 5545, 5559
Ill. 5533 G, 5544 X. 5540, 5551, 5572
IV. 5532, 5534, 5537, 5541 XI. 5557
V. 5535 ἔτι. 2-18, 5542, 5543, 5547 XII. 5560, 5567
VI. 5535 fr. 1 XIII. 5563
VII. 5536, 5568, 5570
NUMBERS AND PLATES
5532 IV 5543 V
5533 A> I 5544 Ill
5533 A | II 5545 IX
5533 G ΠῚ 5547 V
5533 H | II 5548 VIII
5533 H > I 5551 X
5534 IV 5557 ΧΙ
5535 fr. 1 VI 5559 IX
5535 frr.2-18 V 5560 XII
5536 VII 5563 XII
5537 IV 5564 VIII
5538 Vill 5567 ΧΙ]
5539 ΙΧ 5568 VII
5540 Χ 5569 Frontispiece
5541 IV 5570 VII
5542 ν 5572 Χ
NOTE ON THE METHOD OF
PUBLICATION AND ABBREVIATIONS
The basis of the method is the Leiden system of punctuation; see CE 7 (1932) 262-9. It
may be summarized as follows:
aby The letters are doubrful, either because of damage or because they are
otherwise difficult to read
Approximately three letters remain unread by the editor
[αβγ] The letters are lost, but restored from a parallel or by conjecture
[...] Approximately three letters are lost
() Round brackets indicate the resolution of an abbreviation or a symbol
[αβγ] The letters are deleted in the papyrus
“aBy’
The letters are added above the line
(aBy) The letters are added by the editor
{aBy} The letters are regarded as mistaken and rejected by the editor
A space of approximately the width of an average letter is left blank
Bold arabic numerals refer to papyri printed in the volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
The abbreviations used are in the main identical with those of the Checklist of Editions
of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets at htps://papyri.info/docs/
checklist. J. F Oates et al., Checklist of Editions of Greek Papyri and Ostraca (BASP Suppl. IX;
2001), is the most recent printed edition.
Some reference works are cited by abbreviated title, thus:
CSBE? R. S. Bagnall & K. A. Worp, Chronological Systems of Byzantine
Egypt (72004).
GBEBP G. Cavallo & H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine
Period, A. D. 300-800 (1987).
GLH C. H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands, 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (1956).
GMAW? E. G. Turner, Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World (71987).
RSON? A. Benaissa, Rural Settlements of the Oxyrhynchite Nome (?2021).
Turner, Typology E. G. Turner, The Typology of the Early Codex (1977).
