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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Worp - Sijpesteijn (et al.), A Transportation Archive from Fourth-Century Oxyrhynchus (P.Mich. XX)

edited by P.J. Sijpesteijn and Klaas A. Worp,
with the assistance of Traianos Gagos and Arthur Verhoogt

This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with introduction, Greek text, English translation, and explanatory notes. In the general introduction the authors discuss the process of grain transport in fourth century C.E. Egypt as illustrated by the texts published here and by others, previously published, from Oxyrhynchus. 240p (American Society of Papyrologists 2011)

ISBN-13: 978-0-9799758-3-7
ISBN-10: 0-9799758-3-2