TYCHE – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Commodus and/or Marcus Aurelius in a Double-Sided Inscription from Ostia (ScO XI, C 115): Yes and No

2023-10-06T12:13:02+00:00

A marble plaque found at Ostia, Rome’s harbour town, carries Latin inscriptions on both sides. Members of the professional association of lenuncularii, boatmen on the Tiber river, were the authors in both cases. Both sides are thought to contain a dedication to a Roman emperor of the late Antonine dynasty. A close reading of the earlier text shows the likelihood that instead of Commodus a local Ostian leader was the person being honoured.

Defragmenting Apulum: A Re-Examination of IDR III/5.2.586 (With a Digression on IDR III/5.2.622+626)

2023-10-06T12:18:17+00:00

Based on autopsy, the authors provide a new reading, reconstruction, and discussion of IDR III/5.2.586 (Apulum/Alba Iulia). Furthermore, the authors demonstrate that two stones which were previously edited separately (IDR III/5.2.622 and 626, also from Apulum/Alba Iulia) were, in fact, adjoining part of the same monument.

Euergetism as a Political Strategy: The Case of Iason versus Moles

2023-10-11T11:38:32+00:00

This paper offers new interpretations concerning the dossier of Iason of Kyaneai, high priest of the Lycian koinon in AD 139. It is argued that the dates and decrees in this dossier revolve around an old feud between Iason and a certain Moles that started in the early second century and that flared up again some 35 years later. The dossier offers important insights in the struggles for power among the Lycian elite: it not only reveals Iason’s networks of support, but also how he established them, and how he put them to use. It is argued that euergetism played a key role in the establishment and maintenance of these networks, and that euergetism can in this case be considered as a clear political strategy.

A New Epitaph from Aphrodisias

2023-10-11T11:43:14+00:00

The article is devoted to the edition of a new epitaph on a garland sarcophagus from Aphrodisas. Epigonos, an apparantly not inconsiderable citizen of the city, determines the use of his tomb.

Caracalla’s Titulature, Geta’s Murder, and Egypt. Some Chronological Considerations

2023-10-11T11:46:49+00:00

In the wake of the death of Septimius Severus on 4 February 211, Caracalla assumed the victory title Parthicus maximus and his father’s surname Severus. This article sets out to examine how these changes in Caracalla’s titulature are reflected in papyri from Egypt, and what the papyri in their turn may tell us about the drama that took place in Rome. The issue of the knowledge in Egypt of Geta’s death will also be addressed.

From Theadelphia to Philadelphia (PA): Two New Papyri from the Dossier of Aurelius Sakaon

2023-10-11T11:51:00+00:00

Account of Tax Payments in Money
Lease of Goats

Letters of Wessely to Bell

2023-10-11T11:55:53+00:00

H. I. Bell’s correspondence, kept in the British Library (Western Manuscripts), includes five postcards and letters written by C. Wessely between 1907 and 1924. Apart from their interest for the history of scholarship, one of them

offers the opportunity to re-examine a number of texts published in SPP X.

The Re-Emergence of IG XII,9 1196

2023-10-11T12:00:41+00:00

The rediscovery of the stone from Histiaia, IG XII 9, 1196 in the collection of the Middle Temple, City of London, prompts a new edition notably because previous versions, including an unpublished one by Edward Hicks, did not take into account one preserved edge. The text is a typical ban on violating a tomb, here of a Thracian, G. Kourtios Theseus; the composer of the epitaph which follows this proclamation, his wife or her assistant, is not a good versifier.

A Greek Receipt for the Payment of diagraphon from the Dossier of Ioulios

2023-10-11T12:16:32+00:00

The present article offers the first edition of P.Vindob. G 31268, a hitherto unpublished parchment piece belonging to the collection of the Austrian National Library. This piece preserves a Greek receipt for the payment of diagraphon, dated from the second half of the seventh century AD. The document in question presents striking similarities with the receipts SPP VIII 751 and P.Gen. IV 200 in terms of both palaeography and content. All three aforementioned receipts were issued by the same individual, a certain Ioulios, and, therefore, form a small dossier.

Aus Zwei mach Eins: SB XVIII 13997 und P.Vindob. G 21154. Ein arsinoitischer Teilpachtvertrag über Weinland

2023-10-11T15:18:54+00:00

Vereinigte (Neu)Edition eines arsinoitischen Teilpachtvertrages aus dem frühen 7. Jh. Phanamun, Sohn des Menas aus Turubestis erhält einen Teil der Weinernte, drei Teile verbleiben beim Verpächter, dem Schreiber Andreas aus Arsinoe. Zu dem bereits publizierten Ende der Urkunde (SB XVIII 13997) konnte ein weiterer Teil hinzugefunden werden (P.Vindob. G 21154); der Beginn und ein kleiner Teil in der Mitte fehlen weiterhin. Beide Fragmente stammen aus der Wiener Papyrussammlung.

Peripoloi and the god Medaurus in a newly-discovered Greek inscription from Rhizon

2023-10-11T15:21:43+00:00

The paper offers the publication of a Greek inscription recently discovered in Risan (ancient Rhizon/Risinum), Monetenegro. Dated palaeographically to the beginning of the second sentury BC, the inscription mentions the local god Medaurus as peripolarchos and a certain Aristokles son of Aristion as prytanis, and lists twelve men as peripoloi. It thereby confirms that Rhizon was a city in Greek style by mid-Hellenistic period. The overwhelmingly Greek onomastics of the men mentioned in the text shows that the demos of Rhizon was greatly subjected to Greek cultural patterns at the time.

Contratto di lavoro per un muratore salariato

2023-10-11T15:25:10+00:00

Edizione di un contratto di prestazione d’opera per un muratore salariato (il solo finora attestato), stipulato nel 586 ad Antinupolis. Come in molti contratti simili, il salariato si impegna a lavorare per un anno; insolita la formula in cui si precisa che la zona di lavoro sarà la città di Antinoe, forse con i suoi immediati dintorni. Si notano alcune particolarità, come la dieresi a tre punti e la formula μίσθιος τῶν οἰκοδόμων.

A Hermopolite Sale on Delivery in Vienna and London

2023-10-11T15:28:37+00:00

CPR IX 31 preserves the top part of a Hermopolite sale of barley and vegetable seed in advance of delivery. Its lower portion is a newly discovered piece, housed in the British Library. Only a few lines have been lost between the two fragments, as we may tell from their combined height, c. 30.3 cm. There are some novelties, including a tantalizing reference to an earlier transaction (16–17 and n.) and a price for the products if they are not delivered in time (20–21).

Der Gebrauch von Gnomen, Proverbien und Apophthegmata in den griechischen Privat- und Geschäftsbriefen der byzantinischen und früharabischen Zeit (5.–8. Jh. n. Chr.)

2023-10-11T15:34:37+00:00

Dieser Beitrag ist die Fortführung einer im vorletzten Band dieser Zeitschrift veröffentlichten Studie, welche die Verwendung von Gnomen in den griechischen Privatbriefen auf Papyrus vom Beginn der Kaiserzeit bis zum Ende des 4. Jh. n. Chr. zum Gegenstand hatte. Der vorliegende Aufsatz befasst sich mit dem Gebrauch von Gnomen, Proverbien und Apophthegmata in den privaten und geschäftlichen Briefen aus der letzten Phase der griechisch-sprachigen Epoche Ägyptens, das heißt aus dem Zeitraum zwischen dem 5. und dem 8. Jh. n. Chr. Ungefähr 2200 Briefe aus dieser Periode wurden dabei mit Hilfe von HGV ausgewertet, und circa dreißig Texte, die Gnomen, Proverbien und Apophthegmata enthalten, konnten identifiziert und hier analysiert werden.

An Oxy¬rhynchan Deed of Surety for a Registered Sailor from the Dossier of Flavia Anastasia

2023-10-11T15:41:47+00:00

Edition of P.Col. inv. 523 (16 May 571), a papyrus preserving the upper portion of a deed of surety for a registered sailor. The document is one of the earliest published documents from the dossier of Flavia Anastasia.

Ein neuer Papyrus des Flavius Johannes, comes consistorianus

2023-10-11T15:45:22+00:00

Edition eines Papyrus aus der Leipziger Sammlung, der einen Prochreiavertrag aus dem Jahr 466 n. Chr. enthält und neues Licht auf die Person des comes consistorianus Flavius Johannes wirft. Das Dossier dieses wichtigen oxyrhynchitischen Grundbesitzers wird im zweiten Teil des Beitrages diskutiert und mit den Belegen vorgestellt.

Spätarchaisches Gesetz über Landwirtschaft aus Olympia (BrU 10)

2023-10-11T15:47:57+00:00

An inscription of 10 lines is inscribed on the fragment of a former bronze tripod leg. The letters, which can be dated to the last quarter of the 6^th century BC, and the dialect are Elean. Some termini technici on land division and cultivating show the agricultural content of the inscription. Any relation to Zeus or Olympia is missing. No institution is mentioned except a collegium of “The Nine Men”.

The Use of Threat as a Rhetorical Strategy in Women’s Papyrus Letters

2023-10-11T15:50:25+00:00

Women’s papyrus letters provide us with rich information about their everyday experiences, emotions, social attitudes and rhetorical strategies. A new monograph about women letter-writers in antiquity, including an updated corpus of women’s letters preserved on Greek papyri and ostraca (250 items so-far), has just been published. The aim of the present paper is twofold: first to analyze the use of threats in women’s letters as expression of their emotions and their rhetorical strategies, and secondly to compare women’s threats to those addressed by men in their letters focusing on gender differentiation.

Bemerkungen zu Papyri XXXIV

2023-10-11T15:55:38+00:00

KorrTyche

Adnotationes Epigraphicae XII

2023-10-11T16:02:22+00:00

CIL VI 29866

CIL VI 17878

SEG XLII 1063