Summary
The dissertation comprises a critical edition with commentary (with translation where appropriate) of thirteen Greek texts on papyrus, which come from the collections of 4 institutions: The University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, The University of California at Berkeley, and the Cairo Museum. One text is literary: P.Mich. inv. 3390 contains Homer Odyssey 4 355-389. The remaining 12 are documentary. They include: 3 census returns from the Cairo Museum; a loan repayment, a sale and cession of land, a wet-nurse contract, a list of payments, and a private letter from the Michigan collection; a poll-tax receipt and a receipt for wages from the Johns Hopkins collection; a sub-lease of royal land, and a private letter from the Berkeley collection. The texts all date from the first and second centuries of our era.
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- Publication Date:1988
Thesis Information
- Degree:Ph.D.
- University:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Advisor/Supervisor:G. M. Browne
- Pages:128
Publication Statements
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1988
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- proquest:303678484
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