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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Vol. LXXXIV (Hardcover)
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The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Vol. LXXXIV (Hardcover)
Series: Graeco-Roman Memoirs
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P.Oxy. LXXXIV marks a new departure for the series: it is the first
to publish texts in Egyptian. One is a Greek-Coptic paraphrase of
Homer's Iliad, the other a sale of house property in Demotic
accompanied by a Greek tax receipt. Section I presents extensive
remains of a set of codices of the Septuagint. Section II includes
a miscellany of new literary and subliterary texts: remnants of
post-Classical hexameter poetry, a possible fragment of Middle
comedy with an Anacreontic theme, and a cento of Homeric verses on
the myth of Daphne. The seventeen papyri of Apollonius Rhodius
published in Section III, providing some two dozen new readings,
confirm the Argonautica's status as the most popular epic poem in
Roman Egypt after the Homeric and Hesiodic classics. The papyri of
Apollonius are complemented by a painting of a wheeled float
carrying the Argonauts, perhaps an illustration of a local
spectacle. Section IV publishes twenty declarations of livestock
from the first and second centuries, and the largest number of
accounts from the 'Apion archive' since vol. XVI. The global
figures for the Apion estate's income, expenditure, and tax
payments offer fresh data to steer and inform the lively debate
about the economy of this prominent Oxyrhynchite institution.
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