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…
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This thesis is an edition of 19 literary papyri containing parts of Iliad Books 3 and 8 (Part A) and 24 unpublished documents written on papyrus (Part B).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 …
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 thesis examines the impact that collegia had on the economy of the western Roman Empire. There has been a tendency amongst scholars to dismiss the economic aspects of collegia and to think of them instead as primarily social or religious organisations. This thesis demonstra…
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 In this dissertation, I edit thirty-four previously unpublished Greek documents, offering for each papyrus a transcr…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 …
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.…