This study examines a select group of ritual texts from Graeco-Roman Egypt designated as invisibility spells (P.Oxy. inv. 3931; P.Berol. inv. 5025.222–31, 247–62; P.Lond. inv. 121.620–2; P.Lugd.Bat. inv. J 395 [W] 234–7, 267–9, 270–7). As part of the larger corpus of magical lit…
This dissertation presents a comprehensive study of a fragmentary text of Greek prose fiction generally known as The Sesonchosis Novel (2nd century CE). It provides a new picture of the scope, character, and date of the work with the help of two new papyrus fragments and explore…
This thesis is an edition of 19 literary papyri containing parts of Iliad Books 3 and 8 (Part A) and 24 unpublished documents written on papyrus (Part B). All these papyri were found in Egypt, at the village Bahnasa, Oxyrhynchos of the Graeco-Roman period. Their dates vary from …
The extant works among papyri from Oxyrhynchus are here analyzed for what they can tell us of formal and conventional features in the literary papyrus roll. The sample comprises 258 papyri published in volumes 1-55 of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. We begin with a series of case studie…
Because of the lack of provenance or accompanying text, the depictions of anthropomorphized animals on ancient Egyptian New Kingdom ostraca and papyri have long puzzled Egyptologists. Attempts to understand the ostraca usually focus on the role reversals where predatory animals …
Temples are at the heart of most attempts to understand Roman policy in Egypt after Octavian annexed the province in 30 BC. This dissertation examines the evidence for the temples as economic agents in the early Roman period. Through a close reading of a crucial text (P.Tebt. 2.…
The Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, houses a collection of ca. 2000 papyri from Egypt inscribed in several different languages, principally Greek. In this dissertation, I edit thirty-four previously unpublished Greek documents, offering for each papyrus a transcr…
This dissertation is based on thirty-seven Arabic papyrus letters dating from between A.D. 730 and 750 written and related to `Abd Allah b. As`ad, a Muslim administrator and merchant in the south-western Fayyum oasis in Egypt. Unique in its extent and composition, these letters …
This volume provides new information on a brilliant but not well known period of the history of surgery. It uses as its point of departure a remarkable but insufficiently known documentation: Greek literary papyri (from I B.C. to A.D. VII), which often are unique witnesses to lo…
"A conference held in Heidelberg in 2014 resulted in this collection of essays, which explore the multifaceted aspects of magical texts and practices in antiquity, focusing especially on the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri. The authors concentrate on questions of cultural plurali…
