ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO PAPYRI

XII

1430

R. S. Bagnall, CE 63 (1988) 161 n. 4.

1484

For mellokouriōn those about to be shorn read probably mallokouriōn wool-shearers. XLIX 3463 6 n. Cf. D. Montserrat, JEA 76 (1990) 206-7.

1513 7-12

For zytou of beer read zygou of a weighing/balance throughout. This resolves the anomaly of beer measured in pounds. The entries follow the pattern: 1st weighing, 55 pounds | 2nd weighing, 55 pounds, etc. The commodity is probably meat, since line 13 has podokephalōn feet and heads (of animals); see LSJ, E. A. Sophocles, Lexicon, G. W. H. Lampe, A Patristic Greek Lexicon, s.v. podokephala feet and heads for various guesses about its nature. They agree that it refers to edible meat.

In G. Goetz, Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum II 553.32 we find 'haec libra o zygos kreopōlou kai metrō this pound, the butcher's balance and measure?', which may be relevant. It is not clear whether the numbers 1, 2, etc. stand on their own as 1, 2, etc., or are days, for instance, or are ordinals agreeing with zygou, 'first weighing(?), second weighing(?)', etc. Or it may be that zygou lit(r-) is a calque of Latin pondo libr- weight in pounds, although the usual Greek for that is holkēs lit(r-) weight in pounds.

The document is assigned to the fourth century; it is not later, and may be earlier. The Dalmatian troops remain somewhat mysterious, but Dalmatian and Moorish cavalry appear to have been part of Aurelian’s comitatus imperial retinue/entourage, cf. Zos. I 52, A. H. M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire i 55 (cf. 57), ii 1077 (n. 36). These may be connected with his expulsion of the Palmyrenes from Egypt in AD 272. J. R. Rea.

1558 8

Restore Rōmaika Roman things not the Rōmaika. H. Harrauer, P. J. Sijpesteijn, Tyche 3 (1988) 117.

XIII

1604 3-6

B. Zimmermann, ZPE 72 (1988) 22.

1608

F. Adorno etc., Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini i 120-34.

1611

ibid. i 414-18.

XIV

1627 29

J. M. Diethart, K. A. Worp, Notarsunterschriften im byzantinischen Ägypten Notary signatures in Byzantine Egypt 80.

1637 4

LVIII 3923 1-2 n.

1699

G. Husson, OIKIA 97-8.

1716 30

J. M. Diethart, K. A. Worp, op. cit. 86, Taf. 47.

1718

R. S. Bagnall, CE 63 (1988) 157-64.