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Papyrus Tebtunis 33

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Extract

The Papyrus Tebtunis 33 contains the copy of a letter, probably from a high official at Alexandria, to Asklepiades, superintendent of revenues, announcing the approaching visit to the Fayûm of Lucius Memmius, a Roman senator who was coming as a tourist, and giving instructions for his reception and entertainment. The copy is enclosed in a letter, dated [(ἔτους)] ε Ξαντικοῦ ιζ Μεχεὶρ ιζ (i.e. 112 B.C.), from Hermias—probably the Hermias mentioned in the lengthy document P. Teb. 27 of 113 B.C.—to Horos, the royal scribe, telling him to take care that its instructions are followed.

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Copyright ©Adolf Wilhelm 1937. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 P. Foucart in Mélanges Boissier, 197 ff.; U. Wilcken, Chrestomathie, no. 3; Hunt, A. S. and Edgar, C. C., Select Papyri ii, p. 566, no. 416Google Scholar.

2 Cf., however, Wilcken, U. in Arch. Pap. xi, 121Google Scholar.

3 Inscr. Perg. i, p. 157.

4 OGI 332, note 15 to l. 17, and ii. Indices, p. 691; SIG 3 iv. Indices, p. 496.

5 BCH lvii, 519 ff.

6 Inscr. Perg. 246 (cf. ii, p. 510); OGI 332.

7 Op. cit., p. 153.

8 SIG 3 562: now see also L. Robert's brilliant remarks in BCH lix, 489 ff. on CIG ii, 1837 b, republished by J. Brunšmid, Die Inschriften und Münzen Dalmatiens, 17 ff.

9 Zeitschr. f. Num. xxxiv, 39 and Beiträge zur Geschichte des Seeraubs und Seebandels im alten Griechenland, 63.

10 IG ii2, 410; SIG 3 289. I referred to this already in Jahreshefte, loc. cit.

11 Cf. Bekker, I., Anecd. gr. i, 240, 248Google Scholar (quoted by G. Busolt, Staatskunde, 521): δημοτελῆ καὶ δημοτικὰ ἱερεῖα διαϕέρει· τὰ μὲν δημοτελῆ θύματα ὴ πόλις δίδωσιν, εἰς δὲ τὰ δημοτικὰ οί δημόται…; Xenophon, Ἀθ. πολ.. 2, 9 : θύουσιν οὖν δημοσίᾳ μὲν ἡ πόλις ἱερεῖα πολλά: and SIG 3 1015, quoted above. The supply of victims for the public sacrifices was usually the object of a μίαθωσις: cf. the decree of a phyle of Methymna (IG xii, 2, 505) l. 15: τοὺς δὲ ἐπιμηνίους τοὺς ἀεὶ γινομένους παριστάναι αὐτῶι ἀπὸ τῶν μισθουμένων ἱερείων ἄρνα θηλεῖαν, τὸν δὲ θύειν τῆι Ἀθηνᾷ ὑπὲρ ὑγιείας [κ]αὶ σωτηρία[ς ] τῶν συμϕυλετῶν, and IG xii, 2, 527, a decree of Eresos, l. 40, cf. my ‘Neue Beiträge zur griechischen Inschriftenkunde’ in Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie, ph.-h, Kl., 214 Bd., 4 Abh., pp. 10 ff.: SIG 2 554 b, 1. 7: εἰς δ]ὲ τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον προσμισθούσθωσαν οἱ [οἰκονόμοι τ] ἱερὰ καθότι γέγραπρται. Compare also L. Robert's remarks in BCH lii, 163 f, and, on the ἱερώνας, RÉG xxxviii, 52.

12 Beiträge zur Geschichte des Seeraubs und Seehandels in alten Griechenland 54; cf. also 126.

13 Aegyptus xiii, 187 ff.

14 For ἀποκαταστῆσαι cf. my ‘Attische Urkunden’ iii, in Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie, ph.-h. Kl., 202 Bd., 5 Abh., p. 20.

15 Class. Phil. xxx, 322.

16 Op.cit. 63.

17 Histoire du droit privé de la république athénienne iv, 380.

18 Hermes lviii, 406.

19 Mélanges Boissier 197.