Towards a History of Immigration to Hellenistic Egypt: The Contribution of Ethnic Designations to Research

This study argues that ethnic designations in the documentary sources constitute our best evidence for immigration to Hellenistic Egypt, for the ethnic composition of the population and for the relative proportions of the different immigrant groups in relation to each other. Ethnic designations indicate that Hellenistic Egypt became ethnically diverse and that a substantial proportion of immigrants arrived from outside the Graeco-Macedonian world

Enteuxis Concerning Illegal Sale of Cedria

The Greek papyrus published in this article is a fragment of an enteuxis from Ptolemaic Egypt. It probably dates to the middle of the 2nd century BC and its provenance is the Fayyum. It concerns the illegal sale of cedria; a substance widely used in mummification. The petitioner was apparently a tax farmer who won the state concession for the distribution of and tax upon cedria presumably for the Arsinoite nome. He seems to complain that the ibiotaphoi obtained cedria from other sources unauthorised by the state and also supplied others with this product

A Late Hellenistic Fragment of a Tractate on Classical and Post-Classical (?) Literature: New Information on Aristophanes’ Daitales?

Responsable : Christian Berner Oganisateur : Nicolas Osborne Prochaine séance : mercredi 22 mai 2013, 15h30-17h30 Université Lille 3, Bât. B, salle Danielle Corbin, B4 146

Eine griechische Gestellungsbürgschaft aus dem spätantiken Herakleopolis

This article presents the edition of a hitherto unpublished declaration of surety in Greek from 6th century Middle Egypt kept in the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library. In this fragmentary document surety is provided for a gardener (?) called Neilammon son of Timotheos. Of particular interest in the papyrus is an attestation of a notary called Elias unknown to date, who also appears in two other Vienna papyri published in this volume for the first time

Du Pseudo-Mégamédès au fils d’Eumèlos: Un dignitaire lagide honoré par un koinon de soldats à Alexandrie

Based on more complete documentation and offering new readings and a detailed commentary, this article provides a re-examination of a dedication by a military koinon discovered a few years ago and recently republished as CPI I 55. The identity of the Ptolemaic dignitary honoured with a statue around 163–145 BCE and the composite nature of the association of several military groups, some from abroad (Trales from Thrace, Masyles from Numidia), others domestic (“Persians” and Cyrenaeans), have given rise to a re-examination of the dedications made by military groups in Alexandria, Egypt and the Ptolemaic possessions