Zu Zuckers Erwerbung des Verwaltungsarchivs von Theadelphia

This article reconstructs the acquisition of the first lot of the administrative archive of Theadelpheia in the Berlin papyrus collection. The archive material also enables the attribution of further inventory numbers to this purchase.

The ousiakos logos, the procurator usiacus, and ousiake ge: was it Vespasian, Domitian or Hadrian?

This article challenges the consensus that the Flavians carried out major reforms of imperial properties by creating a separate department, the ousiakos logos, headed by a procurator usiacus, to manage these lands, and that this situation remained unchanged until Diocletian. The available evidence rather points to a reorganization under Hadrian, which was the culmination of a gradual institutionalization of ousiac land in the previous decades.

Tuschenanalyse im P 11702

Near-infrared reflectography and imaging X-ray fluorescence analysis reveal that carbon inks of two different compositions were used in the papyrus manuscript Berlin P 11702. In contrast with the writing ink, one of the carbon drawing inks contained a significant addition of iron. This result emphasizes the need for routine instrumental ink analysis.

Fragment eines Gerstedarlehens (P.Colon. Inv. 7969)

First edition of a papyrus fragment from the Cologne collection that contains part of a loan of barley.

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

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.

„ … unter allerlei Plunder eine alte zerfetzte Landkarte“ Papyrus P 11702: Anmerkungen zu den Zeichnungen

Analysis of the drawings on a 5th century AD papyrus containing a list of multiplications. On the recto, an eagle with XI monogram emblematises the Christian notion of resurrection and ascent of the soul. On the verso, what was earlier considered just an ornament is in fact a geographical map of an Eastern Desert wadi and is fashioned following patterns of older Egyptian cartography.