THE BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGIsts Volume 51 2014 Editorial Committee: Peter van Minnen, Timothy Renner, Jitse Dijkstra Reviews Editor: Arthur Verhoogt Advisory Board: Antti Arjava, Paola Davoli, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Andrea Jördens, David Martinez, Kathleen McNamee, John Tait, David Thomas, Dorothy Thompson, Terry Wilfong Copyright © The American Society of Papyrologists 2014 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents American Society of Papyrologists ........................................................................5 A Homeric Papyrus from Tebtynis Thomas A. Wayment and Daniel Becerra......................................................7 A Homeric Papyrus at Yale Andrzej Mirończuk ........................................................................................27 A Homeric Papyrus from Oxyrhynchus Simone Oppen .................................................................................................35 A Letter from Harpalos and Sarapion(?) Brice C. Jones ..................................................................................................41 A Loan of Money with Interest Philip Katz .......................................................................................................47 An Assessment from Karanis C. Michael Sampson .......................................................................................59 A Letter Ordering the Release of a Prisoner Stephen M. Bay ...............................................................................................69 Bacchylides Fr. 60 M. and the Kassandra Theodora A. Hadjimichael .............................................................................77 Artabas of Grain or Artabas of Grains? Willy Clarysse .............................................................................................. 101 Noms doubles et prosopographie ombite Frédéric Colin .............................................................................................. 109 Late Ptolemaic Capitation Taxes and the Poll Tax in Roman Egypt Andrew Monson .......................................................................................... 127 Recognizing Greek Literacy in Early Roman Documents from the Judaean Desert Scott D. Charlesworth ................................................................................. 161 Notes on Papyri ................................................................................................... 191 Christian Inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia 1 (2013) Alain Delattre, Jitse Dijkstra, and Jacques van der Vliet ......................... 199 Review Articles Locating Arabic Papyrology: Fiscal Politics in Medieval Egypt as a Test-Case for Setting Disciplinary Boundaries and Standards Petra M. Sijpesteijn...................................................................................... 217 Bronze Coins from Excavations in Alexandria Andrew Meadows ........................................................................................ 230 Reviews Andrew Monson, Agriculture and Taxation in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: Demotic Land Surveys and Accounts (P. Agri) (Brian Muhs ) .............................................................................................. 241 Charikleia Armoni, Das Archiv der Taricheuten Amenneus und Onnophris aus Tanis (P.Tarich.) (Peter van Minnen) .................................................................................... 245 K. Maresch, Ptolemäische Bankpapyri aus dem Herakleopolites (P.Herakl. Bank). Papyri der Sammlungen in Heidelberg, Köln und Wien (Katelijn Vandorpe) .................................................................................... 249 Wolfgang Habermann (ed.), Die badischen Grabungen in Qarâra und el-Hibeh 1913 und 1914. Wissenschaftsgeschichtliche und papyrologische Beiträge (P. Heid. X) (Peter van Minnen) .................................................................................... 253 S.R. Llewelyn and J.R. Harrison (eds.), New Documents Illustrating Early Chris- tianity: A Review of the Greek and Other Inscriptions and Papyri Published Between 1988 and 1992 (Lincoln H. Blumell) .................................................................................. 257 Andrew Monson, From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt (Arthur Verhoogt) ...................................................................................... 261 Ari Z. Bryen, Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (Peter van Minnen) .................................................................................... 265 Giuseppina Azzarello. Il dossier della “domus divina” in Egitto (James G. Keenan) ...................................................................................... 269 Grzegorz Ochała, Chronological Systems of Christian Nubia (Jitse H.F. Dijkstra) ..................................................................................... 273 Books Received ................................................................................................... 279 Papyrological Summer Institutes Reports, 2008-2012 .................................. 283 Word Index to BASP 43-50 Peter van Minnen ........................................................................................ 287 American Studies in Papyrology ...................................................................... 347 Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014) 5 American Society of Papyrologists The American Society of Papyrologists (ASP) was founded in 1961 to further the study of ancient Greek and Latin papyri and of the materials con- tained in them. The Society supports research in papyrology, which is now taken to include Demotic, Coptic, and Arabic papyri as well. Since 2003 it also actively supports the teaching of papyrology through the Summer Institutes in Papyrology. Members of the American Society of Papyrologists may join the Associa- tion Internationale de Papyrologues (AIP), which sponsors the triennial inter- national congresses of papyrology and subsidizes such scholarly enterprises as the Wörterbuch der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden. Members of the American Society of Papyrologists receive the annual Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, currently in its fifty-first year, and through their dues help support the American Studies in Papyrology monograph series (fifty-three volumes published so far), the papyrology panels at the annual meetings of the American Philological Association (early January) and the Society of Biblical Literature (late November), and the Summer Institutes in Papyrology. You can join the American Society of Papyrologists individually or insti- tutionally online at http://papyrology.org/index.php/membership. The rates for 2014 (excluding postage) are: $35 for individuals (reduced for students) and $65 for institutions. Individuals can add membership of the Association Internationale de Papyrologues ($15) and a tax-deductible gift to the Summer Institutes in Papyrology endowment. The goal of the endowment is to make it possible to support a Summer Institute in Papyrology every other year from the endowment’s income. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014) 7-26 A Homeric Papyrus from Tebtynis1 Thomas A. Wayment and Daniel Becerra Brigham Young University Abstract Full edition of P. Tebt . 3.2.899 descr., a second-century BC papyrus retrieved from mummy cartonnage, containing Homer, Iliad 6. P. Tebt . 3.2.899, published in 1938 as a descriptum, preserves fragments of a second century BCE papyrus roll of Homer, Iliad 6. The fragments, which were recovered from cartonnage, belong to the Tebtynis papyrus collection at the University of California, Berkeley, and carry UC (University of California) call numbers.2 The papyrus is listed in Mertens-Pack3 as no. 773 and has also informed M.L. West’s edition of the Iliad (1998-2000) as well as his Studies in the Text and Transmission of the Iliad (2001). Although they have been con- sulted by scholars, the fragments, which preserve portions of verses 2-347 and represent eleven columns, have yet to receive a formal edition. There are in total 43 catalogued fragments, some without any discernible text. Eight small fragments remain unplaced in the current edition. Two of the unplaced fragments now catalogued as P. Tebt . 3.2.899, al- though they are admittedly rather small with only a few visible letters, are likely not from Homer; they were perhaps included with the Homeric frag- ments because they are also written in a Ptolemaic literary hand. These two fragments are inventoried as UC 2074 (P.Tebt. 0899) -b) Homer, Iliad VI and UC 2077 (P.Tebt. 0899) -d) Homer, Iliad VI and are transcribed at the end of this article, together with the remaining six unplaced ones. The reverse of P. Tebt . 3.2.899 contains a badly mutilated register with measurements of land specifically mentioned. The register is written in a documentary hand, but no information as to date survives in it.3 1 We would also like to thank Professor Todd Hickey for granting access to the pa- pyrus and for encouragement along the way. 2 Images of the papyri according to these inventory numbers are available at http:// tebtunis.berkeley.edu/form. There the caption for frs. 2075 and 2076 mistakenly refer to 1075, 1076. 3 On Frr. 1053a, 1053b, 2065a, and 2065b the documentary writing is upside down with respect to the Homer text. 8 Thomas A. Wayment and Daniel Becerra The original size of the bookroll may be estimated