The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 55

narrow strip of papyrus knotted after passing through vertical slits in the left margins about 3 cm from the top. This strip is now broken, but the knot survives and one end still passes through the slit in copy A. Cf. especially L 3574 introd. and Pl. XVI. (J. R. Rea.)

XXXIX 2888. E. Gangutia, Philologus 130 (1986) 187-90.

XL B. H. Kraut, ZPE 55 (1984) 180-7, publishes three applications for a grain distribution addressed to the exegetes official supervisor of Hermopolis by persons claiming past service as ephebes youths in military/civic training, i.e. full citizenship of the metropolis. He implies that this was a regular institution comparable with the grain doles of Rome, Oxyrhynchus, etc. It might have been an emergency measure, as the language suggests: No. 3.8-9 having no wheat, No. 4.8 I am deprived . . ., No. 5.6-7 when I do not have wheat. (J. R. Rea.)

XLI 2948. C. Lucke, ZPE 58 (1985) 21-33, esp. 32-3.
2954. H. A. Rupprecht, Symposion (1979) 289-301.
2957 = C.P.Gr.II No. 17.

XLII 3006. T. F. Brunner, ZPE 66 (1986) 295-6.
3010 29. C. MacLeod, Collected Essays 306-8; from ZPE 15 (1974) 159-61.
3020 ii 1. Cf. S. R. F. Price, Rituals and Power 34 and n. 41, citing IGR iv 1506.
3040 7. For τρ]ιακοσίας three hundred read τ]ριακοσίας. LV 3789 introd., note (7) to Table.
3042 1. For ἐπικεφαλαίου poll tax read ἐπικεφαλίου. LV 3789 1 n.
3047. J. L. Rowlandson, ZPE 67 (1987) 283-92.
3054. M. Sartre, Syria 59 (1982) 77-91.
3057. G. R. Stanton, ZPE 54 (1984) 49-63.
3060 3. For σπανήν read σπανήν, and in the translation for ‘Spanish’ read ‘grey-black’.

XLIII 3092 5 n. (p. 12 n. 1), cf. D. W. Rathbone, ZPE 62 (1986) 105 (note 2), on the dating of the end of the recognition of Caracalla in Egypt, and the anomaly of O. Deissm. 79, then not located. Most of the ostraca of the Deissmann collection are now at the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia, see S. R. Pickering, Papyrus Editions: Supplement (1985) p. 10 s.v. P. Meyer.
O. Deissm. 79 (P. Meyer p. 200) now has the museum inventory number 36.74. Through the kindness of Mr Pickering and Mr Ted Robinson of the Nicholson Museum, who supplied a photograph, it has been possible to confirm the suggestion that the reign is that of Commodus, i.e. in line 2 read of Commodus (instead of Mark) Antoninus Caesar, cf. P. Bureth, Les titulatures 88. The date Phaophi 19 of the 26th year is therefore equivalent to 16(?) October 185 (not 217), and the anomaly is removed. (J. R. Rea.)

3109 23-4. H.-G. Pflaum, Les Carrières, Suppl. (1982) 97, No. 353A. (This item contradicts my note by assigning the activity of M. Antonius Vitellianus in S. Italy to a period before his epistrategiate office of a regional governor, i.e. c.250. I had followed Pflaum iii p. 1041, where the Italian post is said to be centenarian, and p. 1090, where the epistrategiate of the Heptanomia is said to be sexagenarian. J. R. Rea.)

3112. M. Sordi, Studi . . . A. Adriani i 40 n. 9, 41 n. 16.
3116. P. Frisch, Zehn Agonistische Papyri No. 10.
3119. M. Sordi, Studi . . . A. Adriani i 40 n. 9, 42 n. 17.
3121. J. R. Rea, ZPE 62 (1986) 79-80.
3129. Dr J. D. Thomas has given reason to think that at the date of this papyrus, AD 335, the official term for the new style of strategus general/military governor was exactor tax collector and that therefore the readings στρ. strategus (1) and σ[τ]ρ[ατηγῷ to the strategus (11) in this letter should be revised, see CR 91 ns 27 (1977) 89 (BL VII 157).
He suggested that the official might be a syndic legal representative. A new examination has confirmed this in full, with the discovery that the name which I read on the back, Cuneciw (11), is a false reading of cvndikw! In line 1 read now, therefore, cυν[δίκῳ to the syndic, which fully agrees with the traces, in place of στρ.[.
There is a minor residual problem in the reading of the address on the back, originally given in the form (11-12):