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The most intriguing is a rare example of Imperial choral lyric in multiple metres, including a hexameter hymn to a creator god. Another hymn, to Sarapis, seems to be the work of a local poetaster. The Trojan saga appears in a large fragment of an ethopoea, while didactic poetry is represented by compositions on stars and on stones.
This body of new hexameter poetry is complemented by a wide-ranging selection of extant texts in the same metre. The highlight is three papyri of Dionysius Periegetes, an author previously unknown from ancient copies. Substantial stretches of a reused roll present the last book of the Odyssey with abundant variants crammed into nine overfilled columns.
The volume concludes with subliterary and documentary papyri. Extensive pieces of a manual from the first century deal with divination from animal behaviour; numerous parallels suggest a Mesopotamian source. On the documentary side, over a hundred texts centred on Philoxenus, a wine steward, illustrate the wine flows of the ‘Apion’ estate in the late fifth century. Together they offer a valuable snapshot of the estate’s geographical reach and the scale of its viticultural operations during an otherwise sparsely documented period. The volume concludes with indexes and a selection of photographs.
Preface
Table of Papyri
List of Plates
Numbers and Plates
Note on the Method of Publication and Abbreviations
TEXTS
I. New Post-Classical Poetry (5682–94)
II. Extant Hexameter Poetry (5695–5701)
III. Divination (5702–3)
IV. Documentary Texts (5704–5840)
INDEXES
I. New Post-Classical Poetry (5682–94)
II. Homeric Scholia (5696)
III. Divination (5702–3)
IV. Consuls
V. Indictions and Eras
(a) Indictions
(b) Eras
VI. Months
VII. Dates
VIII. Personal Names
IX. Geographical
X. Religion
XI. Official and Military Terms and Titles
XII. Professions, Trades, and Occupations
XIII. Measures:
(a) Weights and Measures
(b) Money
XIV. Tax
XV. General Index of Words
Corrections to Published Papyri