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Select Papyri, Volume I

Private Documents
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Select Papyri, Volume I offers a fascinating selection of Greek papyri spanning from before 300 BCE to the eighth century CE. These documents, uncovered primarily in Egypt, reveal insights into both private and public matters, including agreements on marriage, adoption, leases, and employment. The volume includes personal letters, receipts, wills, inventories, and even Christian prayers, shedding light on ancient administration, social life, and law under Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine rule.
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This volume is ideal for students, historians, and enthusiasts of ancient history and classical studies, particularly those interested in daily life and legal practices in the ancient Mediterranean world.

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Greek papyri relating to private and public business in Egypt from before 300 BCE to the eighth century CE inform us about administration; social and economic conditions in Egypt; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine law. They also offer glimpses of ordinary life.

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This is the first of two volumes featuring a selection of Greek papyri relating to private and public business. The collection spans from before 300 BCE to the eighth century CE. Most of these papyri were discovered in rubbish heaps, remains of ancient houses, or tombs in Egypt. They provide valuable insights into the administration, social and economic conditions in Egypt, and the laws of native Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine societies, along with glimpses of everyday life.

This volume contains the following categories:

Agreements: 71 examples, including marriage, divorce, adoption, apprenticeship, sales, leases, and employment of labourers.

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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674992948

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 1932

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: Indexes

Contributors:

  • Translated by A. S. Hunt
  • Translated by A. S. Hunt
  • Translated by C. C. Edgar
  • Translated by A. S. Hunt
  • Translated by C. C. Edgar

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 308g

Pages: 480

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Series: Loeb Classical Library

About the Author

Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871–1934) was a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938) was Director of Egyptian Antiquities in the Cairo Museum.

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