A strategos on Trial before the Provincial Governor: a New Look at a Petition to the Roman Prefect of Egypt (P.Wisc. I 33)

Anna Dolganov

doi:10.1515/apf-2021-0031

A strategos on Trial before the Provincial Governor: a New Look at a Petition to the Roman Prefect of Egypt (P.Wisc. I 33)

Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete ◽

10.1515/apf-2021-0031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 354-391

Author(s):

Anna Dolganov

Keyword(s):

Documentary Evidence ◽

High Profile ◽

Roman Egypt ◽

New Look

Abstract P.Wisc. 1 33 is a petition reporting an act of violence, supposedly committed against a strategos of the Arsinoite nome. A re-examination of the papyrus reveals that the strategos in question was not the victim, but was himself being summoned for trial before the governor. The document thereby attests to the most high-profile prosecution of an official in Roman Egypt for which documentary evidence survives.

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Pottery Manufacture in Roman Egypt: A New Papyrus

The Journal of Roman Studies ◽

10.2307/299499 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 71 ◽

pp. 87-97 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Helen Cockle

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Large Scale ◽

Ancient Egypt ◽

The Other ◽

Third Century ◽

Chemical Analyses ◽

Documentary Evidence ◽

Pottery Industry ◽

The Third ◽

Roman Egypt

Our knowledge of the pottery industry in ancient Egypt has so far been derived from sculptured reliefs showing potters at work, from a few excavations of kilns and from chemical analyses of pottery wares. Documentary evidence has now come to light in the form of three pottery leases from Oxyrhynchus, all dated to the middle of the third century a.d.They are so closely related in subject-matter, terminology, date and the names of the contracting parties that I publish in full only the earliest and most complete (which I shall refer to as A); but I include references to the more significant details of the other two (B and C). Their importance lies in the fact that they reveal a remarkably large scale industry, and also much concerning the techniques and terminology of the pottery industry, especially the names of the clays used and the sizes of the jars.

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Designed for Ceremony: The Cappella Paolina at the Vatican Palace

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians ◽

10.2307/3592479 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 228-255

Author(s):

Margaret Kuntz

Keyword(s):

Documentary Evidence ◽

Vatican Palace ◽

New Look

This article explores the renovations of the ceremonial rooms of the Vatican Palace executed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger under Pope Paul III Farnese (r. 1534-49). The focus of the investigation is the evolution of Sangallo's design for the Cappella Paolina. From the evidence it is clear that the various ceremonial and liturgical functions performed in the chapel defined the ultimate design and the strategic, yet problematic, location at the nexus of the papal palace and St. Peter's basilica. The Cappella Paolina replaced the medieval Capella parva and assumed its functions, which necessitated that the new chapel be built in an analogous form and site in order to maintain papal ceremonial continuity. A new look at documentary evidence provides a revised chronology for the construction of the main ceremonial spaces and a new sequencing and interpretation of the surviving drawings.

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Computers and diffraction analysis

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152197 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 44-45

Author(s):

J. A. Eades

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

High Resolution ◽

Electron Diffraction ◽

Diffraction Analysis ◽

Electron Diffraction Analysis ◽

Image Simulation ◽

Correct Interpretation ◽

High Profile ◽

High Resolution Images ◽

Image Simulations

For well over two decades computers have played an important role in electron microscopy; they now pervade the whole field - as indeed they do in so many other aspects of our lives. The initial use of computers was mainly for large (as it seemed then) off-line calculations for image simulations; for example, of dislocation images.Image simulation has continued to be one of the most notable uses of computers particularly since it is essential to the correct interpretation of high resolution images. In microanalysis, too, the computer has had a rather high profile. In this case because it has been a necessary part of the equipment delivered by manufacturers. By contrast the use of computers for electron diffraction analysis has been slow to prominence. This is not to say that there has been no activity, quite the contrary; however it has not had such a great impact on the field.

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