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Papyrology
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A Prosopography of Byzantine Aphrodito
by Giovanni Roberto Ruffini
This volume, which replaces Girgis's outdated prosopography from 1938, is an annotated record of every person attested in the Byzantine-era papyri from the middle Egyptian village of Aphrodito. Its papyri make Aphrodito the best attested village for this time period with implications for the study of rural life throughout Late Antiquity. For each entry, the author lists all the relevant texts and all known information about that person's social ...
Hardback. Price GB £59.00
A Sixth-Century Tax Register from the Hermopolite Nome
edited by Roger S. Bagnall, James G. Keenan, and Leslie S.B. MacCoull
This volume publishes the most complete documentary codex from 6th-century Egypt. Known to the scholarly world since 1905 and frequently cited since then, it now appears for the first time in full edition. The codex details money taxes paid by landowners at the village of Temseu Skordon and the hamlet Topos Demeou in the Hermopolite Nome. The language is Greek but with extensive Coptic influence. The text is especially important for its bearing ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
JJP 39 (2009) Journal of Juristic Papyrology
edited by Tomasz Derda and Jakub Urbanik, with the assistance of Grzegorz Ochala
Table of Contents:
In Memoriam Jan Krzysztof Winnicki
In Memoriam Tomasz Markiewicz
Benaissa, Nikolaos Gonis, P. OXY. XII 1561: Demosiosis of a Loan
Maria Chiara Giorda, Bishops-Monks in the Monasteries: Presence and Role
Adam Lajtar, Varia Nubica XII-XIX
Adam Lukaszewicz, Ostraca and Architecture at Kom El-Dikka
Grzegorz Ochala, The Era of the Sarcarens in Non-Arabic Texts from Nubia ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
JJP 38 (2008) Journal of Juristic Papyrology
edited by Tomasz Derda and Jakub Urbanik, with the assistance of Grzegorz Ochala
Table of contents: In memoriam Anna Swiderek (1925-2008); The Alpha and Omega of Hypallagma; A Heracleopolite Land Lease of the Fifth Century; Citazione di giuristi romani in BKT IX 201 (P. Berol. inv. 21295); Justinian and His Two Codes: Revisiting P. Oxy. 1814; Victor, Bishop and His Evasive See; Humanity and Inhumanity of Law - The Case of Dionysia; Le Troisième Livre des Maccabées: un drame judiciare ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
City of the Sharp-nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
by Peter Parsons
In this accessible and 'anecdotal' work, Peter Parsons, formerly head of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, brings to life the City of Oxyrhynchus, a colony of Greek migrants, in the age of the Roman Empire. Drawing on the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, one of the most extraordinary bodies of evidence in the world, and rivalling Pompeii in what they can tell us about the Roman city, he elucidates grand themes such as the economic life of the city, but pays ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £9.99, Our Price GB £4.95
Image to Interpretation: an Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts
by Melissa Terras
The stylus tablets found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda are particularly difficult to read. This book describes the development of what appears to be the first system constructed to aid experts in the process of reading an ancient document, exploring the extent to which techniques from Artificial Intelligence can be used to develop such a system. Melissa Terras examines the work of experts studying the Vindolanda documents and proposes a model ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £50.00, Our Price GB £19.95
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