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The Names Flavius And Aurelius As Status Designations In Later Roman Egypt, James G. Keenan Jan 1974

The Names Flavius And Aurelius As Status Designations In Later Roman Egypt, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

An examination of the uses of the names Flavius and Aurelius.


An Instance Of The Military Grade Flavialis, James G. Keenan Jan 1973

An Instance Of The Military Grade Flavialis, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Louvre papyrus first edited by Wessely in 1889 1 and now accessible as SB I 4 779 is an extremely fragmentary contract assigned to the Byzantine period.


A List Of Debtors (P. Teb. 639), James G. Keenan Jan 1972

A List Of Debtors (P. Teb. 639), James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The papyrus is owned by the University of California at Berkeley and housed in the Rare Books Department of the Bancroft Library. It was summarily described on page 332 of The Tebtunis Papyri, Vol. II, and mentioned in the introduction toP. Teb. 397 on page 258 of the same volume. Interest in the document and an approximate date are provided by its association with P. Teb. 397 (= MChr. 321) of 198 A.D., a settlement of a long outstanding debt. In that text a certain Tyrannis acknowledges that she has received satisfactory compensation for a loan which had been made …


Flavius John, Scholasticus: A Note On Psi 963, James G. Keenan Jan 1972

Flavius John, Scholasticus: A Note On Psi 963, James G. Keenan

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PSI 963 is a lease of a vetch-seller's shop; its provenance is Oxyrhynchus, its date 581 A.D.


Two Loan Repayments From Second-Century Tebtunis, James G. Keenan Jan 1972

Two Loan Repayments From Second-Century Tebtunis, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The type of document commonly referred to as the repayment, or return of a loan has been recently discussed in the introduction to P. Yale 63. The editors there conclude (p. 198) that "written repayments of loans were not given for repayment itself, but to cover peculiar circumstances" (spaced by me), such as the decease of the original creditor or debtor, or occasions when repayment was made in a place different from that in which the loan was taken out. The two papyri presented below lend confirmation to this conclusion: No. 1 is the repayment in Tebtunis of a loan …


Two Papyrus Fragments Of The Odyssey, James G. Keenan Jan 1971

Two Papyrus Fragments Of The Odyssey, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The two papyri edited below are housed in the Rare Books Department of the Bancroft Library on the University of California's Berkeley campus. Of Roman date, they were summarily described on page 303 of The Tebtunis Papyri Vol. II and have listings in Roger A. Pack's Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt. The collations which follow are based upon P. von der Muihll's edition (Basel 1946). For fragment no. 1, pertinent excerpts from the apparatus criticus of that edition are reproduced.


Census Return Of Herakleides, Son Of Didymos The Younger, James G. Keenan Jan 1971

Census Return Of Herakleides, Son Of Didymos The Younger, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.


Four Papyri From Second-Century Tebtunis, James G. Keenan, John C. Shelton Jan 1971

Four Papyri From Second-Century Tebtunis, James G. Keenan, John C. Shelton

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The texts presented here have until now been known to papyrologists only from short descriptions in the back of P. Teb. Vol. II. We print below full transcripts together with a commentary to take account of scholarship since the original publication in 1907. The texts have a common feature in their concern with weaving: nr. 1 is an apprenticeship to a weaver, the remainder are receipts for weavers' tax.


Two Loans From Tebtunis, James G. Keenan Jan 1970

Two Loans From Tebtunis, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The papyri edited below are housed in the Bancroft Library on the University of California's Berkeley campus in the keeping of Rare Books and Special Collections.* Previously mentioned with brief descriptions as P. Teb. 531 and 532, they are presented here for the first time in full.


Ten Dike Certificates From Tebtunis, James G. Keenan, John C. Shelton Jan 1969

Ten Dike Certificates From Tebtunis, James G. Keenan, John C. Shelton

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The documents presented here are the best preserved of the dike certificates described as P. Teb. 641-674.