Select Papyri, Volume I: Private Documents

by A. S. Hunt, C. C. Edgar

Overview

Personal records from the sands of Egypt.

This is the first of two volumes giving a selection of Greek papyri relating to private and public business. They cover a period from before 300 BC to the eighth century AD. Most were found in rubbish heaps or remains of ancient houses or in tombs in Egypt. From such papyri we get much information about administration and social and economic conditions in Egypt, and about native Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine law, as well as glimpses of ordinary life.

This volume contains: Agreements, 71 examples; these concern marriage, divorce, adoption, apprenticeship, sales, leases, employment of laborers. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674992948
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1932
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #266
Edition description:	5th printing/1st pub.1932
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Explanatory Notes:

Egyptian dates

Egyptian money

Method of publication and list of abbreviations

Text and Translation:

I. Agreements

II. Receipts

III. Wills

IV. Disownment

V. Letters

VI. Memoranda

VII. Invitations

VIII. Orders for payment

IX. Agenda

X. Accounts and lists

XI. Questions to oracles

XII. Christian prayers

XIII. Gnostic charm

XIV. Horoscopes

Glossary Of Technical Terms

Index Of Sources