Böcker i Archiv fur Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte-serien

The volume is representative of the diverse papyrological research which was encouraged and stimulated in the Institute of Papyrology at Heidelberg University between 1982 and 2004, a period in which it attracted numerous papyrologists, philologians, ancient historians and theologians from both home and abroad. The varied content includes literary papyri, ancient medical texts, palmomancy and lexicography. Furthermore there are documentary papyri from the Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine and Arabic periods concerning the history of Pagan and Christian religion, political history, tax raising, administration and agriculture as well as articles on onomastics, prosopography, the transmission of communication, manuscript tradition, Church history and, last but not least, the trail of Socrates.

Claudius Tiberianus represents a typical situation for the possibilities of Greco-Egyptians how to advance socially through the service in the Roman army and then how to obtain therefore the citizenship after having finished with the honesta missio. In the first place we see him as a speculator at the time of the rule of Trajan, later as a veteran: he had socially advanced and operated together with his companion veterans and also with the still serving soldiers in the navy and in the land army. His friends were for him economic and social partners, they had common affairs and common opinions. These documents open a view of the living in the country (Fayum and elsewhere) and in the city of Alexandria, which allow us to reconstruct a lot of private and public relations. Here even the nearly silent world of women informs us about economic and legal items. A very interesting tale concerns the murdering of a slave reported by the mother of the culprit. Another quite actual aspect of those days is represented by relations such as between patroni and their clientes. From a more technical point in the field of papyrological work it should be remembered that the results have been obtained through a continous interrogation of the archaeological background.

Von den wenigen antiken Zeugnissen zum Vulgärlateinischen findet sich wiederum nur eine geringe Zahl auf originalen Schriftträgern. Einige davon werden in dem vorliegenden Band vorgestellt, jeweils zusammen mit Bibliographie, Edition, Übersetzung, Nachzeichnung des Schriftbestandes sowie einem ausführlichen sprachlichen Kommentar. Die Sammlung enthält vier Nummern mit Briefen (ChLA 43, 1241c; Tab. Vindol. 2, 310; P. Mich. 8, 471; O. Bu Njem 76-79), eine Soldatenliste (SB 22, 15638),fünf pompejanische Graffiti, zwei Inschriften aus dem Rheinland (CIL 13, 7645; Gauthier Nr. 45), drei zweisprachige Dokumente (SB 3, 6304; P. Amh. 2, 26; Folium Parisinum) und den Anfang der Appendix Probi.

Die Zeitschrift Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete ist das älteste papyrologische Fachorgan der Welt. Sieunterscheidet sich von anderen papyrologischen Zeitschriften hauptsächlich durch ihre Referate (literarische Papyri, christliche Texte, Urkundenreferat, juristisches Referat, koptische Texte und Urkunden, Demotica Selecta sowie Darstellungen und Hilfsmittel). Die Beihefte zu der Zeitschrift vereinen sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbände; im Zentrum stehen Neueditionen von Papyrustexten griechischer, lateinischer, koptischer, demotischer oder arabischer Sprache, die neue Erkenntnisse zu verschiedenen Bereichen des Altertums vermitteln: zu Philologie, Literatur, Philosophie, Religion, Politik und Sozialgeschichte, zu Militär- und Rechtsgeschichte, zu Geographie und Landeskunde, zu Schul- und Gesundheitswesen und zum Alltagsleben; kurzum, zur antiken Kulturgeschichte überhaupt.