TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial Forward ...................................................................................... 5

Crows and Ravens in the Mediterranean (the Nile Valley, Greece and Italy) as Presented in the Ancient and Modern Proverbial Literature

J. Foufopoulos and N. Litinas .................................................................... 7

Some Curious Prescripts (Native Languages in Greek Dress?)

N. Gonis ................................................................................................... 41

Change and Continuity in the Administration of Ptolemaic Lycia: 

A Note on P. Tebt. I 8

M. D. Gygax ............................................................................................. 45

sitos/puros in Egypt as Deliberate Mixtures of Wheat with Barley

P. Mayerson .............................................................................................. 51

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Papyrology. Mapping Fragmentation and Migration Flow to Hellenistic Egypt

K. Mueller ................................................................................................. 63

Chairemon: Alexandrian Citizen, Royal Scribe, Gymnasiarch, Landholder at Bacchias, and Loving Father

R. Smolders .............................................................................................. 93

Due frammenti di un unico rotolo? P.Duke inv. 756 e P.Mil Vogl. inv. 1358 (Herodotus IV 144.2-145.1 e 147.4-5)

A. Soldati ................................................................................................ 101

The Reply of Jesus to King Abgar: A Coptic New Testament Apocryphon Reconsidered (P.Mich Inv. 6213)

K. P. Sullivan and T. G. Wilfong ........................................................... 107

An Addition to P.Yale I 24 (Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus 14-15)

K. W. Wilkinson .................................................................................... 125

Checklist of Arabic Papyri (Beta Version)

P. Sijpesteijn, J. Oates, and A. Kaplony ................................................. 127

 

SPECIAL THEMATIC SECTION

(Con)textual Encounters in Egypt: Bridging the Disciplinary Divide between Archaeology and Papyrology

Preface .................................................................................................... 171

Material Culture and Texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Creating Context, 

Debating Meaning

T. Gagos, J. Gates, and A. Wilburn ....................................................... 171

Text and Context in the Archive of Tiberianus (Keranis, Egypt; 2nd 

Century AD)

R. P. Stephan and A. Verhoogt .............................................................. 189

Landscape and Memory: al-Nabulsi's ta'rikh al-Fayyum

J. G. Keenan ........................................................................................... 203

Examples of Town Planning in the Fayyum

P. Davioli ................................................................................................ 213

Texts, Contexts, Subtexts and Interpretive Frameworks. Beyond the 

Parochial and toward (Dynamic) Modeling of the Ptolemaic Economy

J.G. Manning.......................................................................................... 235

Response

A. K. Bowman ........................................................................................ 257

Response

J. H. Johnson .......................................................................................... 267

REVIEWS

Hélène Cadell and Georges Le Rider, Prix du blé et numéraire dans 

l'Égypte lagide de 305 à 173.

(A. Verhoogt) ......................................................................................... 273

Denis Feissel and Jean Gascou (eds.), La pétition à Byzance.

(J. G. Keenan) ........................................................................................ 275

Donald B. Redford, From Slave to Pharaoh. The Black Experience of 

Ancient Egypt.

(A. Verhoogt) ......................................................................................... 283

Constantine Zuckerman, Du village à l'Empire: autour du Registre fiscal 

d'Aphroditô (525/526).

(J. G. Keenan) ........................................................................................ 285

Books Received ...................................................................................... 299

Plates