Fayûm Towns and Their Papyri, Volum 52;Volum 314

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Offices of the Egypt exploration fund, 1900 - 374 pàgines
"A record of two years' excavations in the Fayûm, the first in 1895-96 ... the second in 1898-99 ... Part 1, Part 2, iv-vii [describe] the excavations at Kasr el Banât and Part 3 [contains] texts of papyri, ostraca, and indices." -- Preface.
 

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Pàgina 87 - Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire.
Pàgina v - PETRIE, DCL, LL.D. (for Chicago). FG HILTON PRICE, Esq., FSA MRS. CORNELIUS STEVENSON, Sc.D. (for Pennsylvania). MRS. TIRARD. THE REV. HG TOMKINS, MA EMANUEL M.
Pàgina 267 - The rendering of the editors runs ' : " Up to to-day you have not harvested the field at Apias, but have neglected it, and so far have only harvested the half. Give heed to the measurer (?) Zoilus ; don't look askance at him. Up to to-day you have left it unharvested, wherefore I blame you greatly.
Pàgina 290 - Even after hyalos came to be the universal name for glass, it was still occasionally applied to other substances. Possibly it stands for a diamond in a puzzling letter of the early fourth century found among the papyri of the Fayum towns. "Eudaemon to Longinus, greeting. I entreat you, sir, to hasten to me and bring, if you please, the crystal (?) and we will clip the cash. If you . . . . , you will be able to strain me some good Mareotic wine when you come, with the value. Good-bye."30 The editors...
Pàgina 266 - Heracleides, the donkey-driver, shifted the blame from himself, saying that you had told him to drive the pigs on foot. I have already more than sufficiently enjoined you to stay at Dionysias a couple of days, till you have bought 20 artabae of lotus, believing it to be essential.
Pàgina 107 - Internal evidence would point to the end of the second or beginning of the first century Bc as the time of its composition.
Pàgina 147 - Greek quarter, but has now moved into the neighboring quarter of Apolloneios Hierax) and the children of these two, Ammonios, aged 5, and Didymos, aged 4, and Aut , were not otherwise enrolled in the enrolment in the first year of the Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and the Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus, on the thirtieth of Payni [ie, June 24, 161 AD]. To Potomon...
Pàgina 258 - Arsinoite nome, and after labouring for a period of four years at the post, I became very weak, my lord ; wherefore I entreat you my preserver to have pity on me, and order me to be released from my duties so that I may be able to recover from the effects of my labours . . ., and ... to add instructions that complete exemption from compulsory services be granted to persons practising the profession of physician, "and especially to those who have passed the examination like myself, that so I may experience...
Pàgina 293 - O lords Dioscuri, is it fated for him to depart to the city ? Bring this to pass, and let him come to an agreement with thy brother.