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ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS Abd el-Latif Hassan Afandy (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) INVESTIGATION AND CONSERVATION OF SOME ARABIC PAPYRI HOUSED IN AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY, EGYPT The study deals with some Arabic papyri housed in Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. The papyri have suffered from deterioration due to poor storage conditions. Decay of papyrus components and agents, as well as mechanisms of deterioration, were studied using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Atomic Absorption and Elemental analysis (C-H-O). Microbiological investigations were carried out on samples of different papyri in order to identify the fungi that have been developing on them and to apply optimal disinfection methods. The microorganisms isolated and identified were Cladosporium fulvum, Aspergillus niger, Penicillium Sp., Fusarium Sp., and also some insects including silverfish and cockroaches. The conservation techniques used will protect papyri in the Ain Shams Uni- versity collection from further degradation. Alissa Abrams (Yale University) LEGAL HETEROGENEITY IN PTOLEMAIC EGYPT Analysis of legal papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt indicates a heterogeneity and dynamism of law and of legal systems under Ptolemaic rule that has been under- investigated. Through examination of legal documents written in both Greek and demotic, originating from a variety of times and places, this paper will explore the nature of legal heterogeneity under the Ptolemies and the mechanisms by which such heterogeneity arose. Our understanding of these issues has important implications for the nature of Ptolemaic rule, as well as for the role that law and the administration of justice played in mediating relationships between the Ptolemies and their diverse subject populations. 4 27TH CONGRESS OF PAPYROLOGY María Jesús Albarrán Martínez (Universidad de Alcalá – CNRS Paris) ARCHIVES D’APA SABINOS DANS LE FONDS COPTE DE LA SORBONNE La collection de l’Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne abrite un groupe de papyrus coptes qui font apparemment partie d’un même dossier. Ce dossier provient d’un établissement monastique situé dans la montagne d’Antinoopolis, nommé monastère d’apa Sabinos. Ces archives sont déjà connues par plusieurs textes grecs, publiés ou inédits, et elles ont été le sujet d’une première étude pub- liée par Jean Gascou en 2011. Aux papyrus grecs s’ajoutent plusieurs pièces en copte. Ces papyrus coptes, comme les grecs, sont principalement des documents juridico-économiques. L’é- tude des papyrus coptes permet une meilleure connaissance de l’établissement monastique et des personnages qui y sont rattachés. Elle permet aussi de com- parer les conditions de production des documents coptes et grecs pour un même site et de reprendre la question de la chronologie du dossier. Michele Alessandrelli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per il Lessico Intelettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee, Rome) P. HERC. 1020 (ANONYMOUS STOIC AUTHOR, UNKNOWN WORK): ANATOMY OF THE ROLL AND SEQUENCE OF FRAGMENTS P. Herc. 1020, transmitting an Early Stoic text (probably by Chrysippus), was unrolled between 1803 and 1804 and is preserved in 13 pieces, which have come to us in poor condition. One piece has been proven not to belong to this papyrus on palaeographical grounds. The stratification of the pieces ranges from absent to severe. The original order of fragments was upset after some pieces were hung on the walls of the Officina dei papiri around 1865 and subsequently taken down at the beginning of the 20th century. It has been reconstructed both by measuring the ‘voluta’ of each piece and on the basis of Hayter’s numeration either legible on the ‘cartoncino’ on which some pieces are fixed or inferable from the ‘disegni’. The impossibility of identifying with certainty the text layout of the outer pieces of the roll because of the presence of multiple layers in them make it difficult to estimate with precision the length of the lost portions between them. In addition, the lengthwise compression of the papyrus roll permits only an approximation of ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS 5 its original length and total number of columns. As far as the preserved text is concerned, in addition to the 8 columns previously edited by Hans von Arnim, 18 inedited columns have been read and transcribed so far. A new critical edition of the book is currently being prepared within the framework of the project ERC Starting Grant 241184-PHerc (European Commission, FP7, ‘Ideas’). Alia Hanafi (Ain Shams University, Cairo) TWO UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS 1. A school exercise The papyrus is kept in the Coptic Museum under the inv. no 2436. The document written in semi-uncial hand is dated to 3.07.152 AD. The text was divided into three paragraphs separated by two horizontal lines and containing the date, the location and the subject. The latter is an aphorism, which obviously echoes the Proverb from the Old Testament about choosing friends. The whole seems to be a school exercise. 2. A Christian letter This light yellow scrap of papyrus is preserved in the Coptic Museum under the inv. no 3452. The document, written in semi-cursive hand, has six lines on the recto and one on the verso. It can be identified as a letter and dated to the 6th or 7th c. AD. The opening formula of the letter is lost. The preserved text begins with a reference to something the sender became acquainted with through an ecclesi- astic. The letter was addressed to a layperson whose name is lost in the lacuna at the end of line seven on the verso and who is of high social status. The addressee apparently had given instruction to send someone to the sender. Unfortunately, we do not have the names of the sender or the recipient of this letter. José Luis Alonso (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián) THE STATUS OF GRAECO-EGYPTIAN LAW UNDER ROMAN RULE The first generation of papyrologists soon realized that the law revealed by the documents from Roman Egypt was largely not Roman, but a continuation of Hellenistic and local traditions. This conclusion, overwhelmingly confirmed by later evidence, implies also that the Roman jurisdiction had no qualms about 6 27TH CONGRESS OF PAPYROLOGY applying the local law, as the specifically jurisdictional evidence further corrobo- rates. How this jurisdictional practice should be understood from a legal point of view was for a long time a subject of debate. The prevailing opinion today seems to be that the local law lacked any binding force after the fall of the Ptolemies, an opinion further supported by the cases where the Roman jurisdiction depart- ed from the local solution to impose the Roman one. From the point of view of the Roman jurisdiction, it has been asserted, there was in Egypt a legal vacuum, to be filled at discretion. A complementary - but different - approach builds on the notion of customary law: together with the unwritten traditions, also the written law and the Ptolemaic legislation persisted simply as custom, as a merely tolerated mos regionis. These ideas will be reassessed, from the point of view of the nature of the Roman jurisdiction and the Roman jurisdictional practice, the roots of the doctrine of customary law, and the very idea of the law as a binding system of rules. Serena Ammirati (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) Marco Fressura (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) TIPOLOGIE DEL GLOSSARIO BILINGUE ANTICO: PALEOGRAFIA, BIBLIOLOGIA, CODICOLOGIA Il materiale glossografico bilingue latinogreco e grecolatino, digrafico e non, di interesse papirologico sarà esaminato sotto il profilo grafico, bibliologico e cod- icologico e opportunamente confrontato con testimonianze di antica e continu- ata conservazione archivistico-bibliotecaria. L’analisi si concentrerà soprattutto su modalità di compilazione e mise en page dei testi, nonché sull’allestimento dei relativi manoscritti. L’indagine verterà principalmente sui testi di contenuto pro- fano (glossari bilingui generici e tematici; glossari bilingui degli autori letterari) senza trascurare per necessari confronti alcuni fra i principali testi bilingui di contenuto cristiano. Isabella Andorlini (University of Parma) LUSSO E GENERI D’IMPORTAZIONE NEI PAPIRI D’ETÀ ROMANA Tra i generi di lusso che attestano il commercio verso l’Egitto romano, oltre a ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS 7 quelli del settore gastronomico messi in luce nello studio di A. Papathomas (ZPE 158, 2006), meritano attenzione altri prodotti pregiati, come tessuti ed abiti di fabbricazione straniera, cosmetici e profumi costosi. Sia le notizie delle lettere private sia quelle risultanti da altra documentazione su papiro, talora collegate ai reperti archeologici e rivisitate con proposte di nuove letture, documentano un’importante circolazione di generi ricercati di varia provenienza (quelli “da Poz- zuoli” in P. Tebt. II 413, e “da Lentini” in P. Tebt. II 405, il rhodinon italico in P. Graux II 10, il foliatum in P. Bingen 79), verosimilmente espressione di mentalità, gusto e status symbol delle élites romane stanziate nei villaggi della chôra egiziana. Agathe Antoni Daniel Delattre (CNRS, Institut de recherché et d’histoire des texts, Paris) Annick Monet LA RECONSTRUCTION DU P. HERC. PARIS. 2 [PHILODÈME, LA CALOMNIE] : QUELQUES NOUVEAUTÉS TEXTUELLES Daniel Delattre a été missionné en 2003 par l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris) pour éditer le P. Herc. Paris. 2, contenant très probablement un des livres de Philodème sur les vices et les vertus opposées, qui est tout entier consacré au vice de la διαβολή. L’équipe qu’il a réunie autour de lui travaille activement depuis 2004 à la reconstruction de ce rouleau-puzzle ouvert à Naples (1986-1987) en 283 morceaux de tailles très inégales et fort difficiles à rapprocher les uns des autres en raison d’une multitude de sovrapposti. C’est le point sur l’é- tat d’avancement du travail et surtout quelques lectures nouvelles qui seront ici présentés. Carolin Arlt (University of Würzburg) TEMPLE DOCUMENTS FROM PTOLEMAIC SOKNOPAIOU NESOS This paper gives an overview of the Demotic Griffith Papyri, which were found in Soknopaiou Nesos (Dime) in the Fayyum and are today kept in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

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