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2466. J. N. O'Sullivan, ZPE 56 (1984) 39-44.
2478. P. Frisch, Zehn Agonistische Papyri Ten Agonistic Papyri No. 3.
2479 2 n. On Κινέα Kineas add PSI III 196.1; 197.1. The village belonged to the imperial estates, but was administered (or acquired or appropriated?) by the Apion family. J. Gascou, Travaux et Mémoires 9 (1985) 77.
XXIX 2506²⁶ ii 25-7. F. Montanari, ZPE 62 (1986) 46-8.
2506²⁶ ii. F. Maltomini, ZPE 71 (1988) 91-2.
2506⁷⁷ 25-31. R. Führer, ZPE 54 (1984) 40.
2506¹¹⁵. E. Contiades-Tsitsoni, ZPE 71 (1988) 1-7.
XXX 2509. R. Janko, Phoenix 38 (Toronto 1984) 299-307.
XXXI 2535. On the writing see G. Cavallo, Libri scritture scribi a Ercolano Books, Writings, and Scribes at Herculaneum 53.
2562. New edition: LIV 3767.
2564. = C.P.Gr.II No. 44 (with correction of the date to 25.vi.153).
2570. New edition: LIV 3766.
2585 3-4. LIV p. 224.
2610. = P. Frisch, Zehn Agonistische Papyri Ten Agonistic Papyri No. 5.
2617¹³. F. Maltomini, SCO 34 (1984) 67-70.
XXXII 2624. M. Van der Weiden, ZPE 66 (1986) 15-32.
XXXIII 2654. On the writing see G. Cavallo, Libri scritture scribi a Ercolano 53.
2661. T. F. Brunner, ZPE 66 (1986) 295-6.
2673. G. W. Clarke, ZPE 57 (1984) 103-4. A scrap of a very similar document, dated four days later on 9.ii.304, has been published as P. Harr. II 208.
2673 22. For χαλκῆν ὕλην bronze plate/material (see ZPE 35 (1979) 128) cf. AP XI 371.3-6:

ἀργυρέην ὕλην silver plate which we do not eat, which you set aside
by starving, mimicking the miserable plates.
Look for the fasting ones, do not show off the silver,
and then you may wonder, holding light, base metal. (J. R. Rea.)

XXXIV 2687+I 9. On the writing see G. Cavallo, Libri scritture scribi a Ercolano 57.
2708. H. G. Pflaum, Les Carrières procuratoriennes Procuratorial Careers (Supplément 1983) 62-3, No. 242 bis.
2717. LV 3789 introd., note (1) to Table.
2719. R. W. Daniel, ZPE 54 (1984) 85-6.
D. P. Fowler, ZPE 59 (1985) 45-6.
2728. ‘A date between 312 and 318 seems probable, although 308-12 is not completely excluded.’ R. S. Bagnall, Currency and Inflation in Fourth Century Egypt 57, cf. 66.
2729. J. M. Carrié, Aegyptus 64 (1984) 203-27 and pls. between 208 and 209. (Note that in 12-13 the unread remains are not compatible with the reading [myriad]s [talent] 1 (see ib. p. 207 n. 8), and that the expression ‘the talent of myriads’ makes no sense. ‘Myriad’ is a collective noun denoting 10,000 items of whatever kind, including talents. A talent consists of 6,000 drachmas but does not denote a collection of 6,000 items of any other kind. J. R. Rea.)
2729. To be dated ‘early-mid-350s’. R. S. Bagnall, Currency and Inflation in Fourth Century Egypt 17, 45-6.
XXXV 2734¹. F. Cairns, QUCC 42, ns 13 (1983) 29-35.
2737. W. Luppe, ZPE 54 (1984) 15-16.
XXXVI 2761. = C.P.Gr.II No. 51 (with correction of the date to AD 161-9).
2783 24. For τάμροι bulls (interpreted as ταῦροι) read probably γαμροί = γαμβροί brothers-in-law, cf. F. T. Gignac, Grammar i 70, citing five other examples of this phonetic spelling. In the translation read ‘brothers-in-law’ for ‘bulls’ and delete 24 n. (J. R. Rea.)
XXXVII 2812 36-9. W. Luppe, Hermes 114 (1986) 492-5.
2820. H. Hauben, Atti del XVII Congresso . . . di Papirologia Proceedings of the 17th Congress of Papyrology (Naples 1983) iii 1085-97.
2826. A. Borgogno, Prometheus 11 (1985) 211-17.
XXXVIII 2837. = C.P.Gr.II No. 7.
2854. 27-8. Cf. P. Flor. I 77.2. P. J. Sijpesteijn, Aegyptus 66 (1986) 156 No. 71.
2855. It was not noticed that the two copies of this item had once been held together by a