Ostraka Varia : : tax receipts and legal documents on Demotic, Greek, and Greek-Demotic Ostraka, chiefly of the early Ptolemaic period, from various collections (P.L. Bat. 26) / / S. P. Vleeming.

• Superior document: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; Volume 26
• VerfasserIn: Vleeming, S. P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : E.J. Brill,, [1994]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; Volume 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 172 pages, 16 pages of plates) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

A large majority of the 65 ostraka published in this volume come from Egypt in the Third Century B.C. Some thirty are from Elephantine; these comprise a number of Greek and Greek-demotic receipts. Not unimportant new texts from Hermonthis and Thebes (among others, a fine example of a temple oath) add notably to the diversity of the volume. Although of course tax receipts predominate, these are present in a rich variety, and their commentaries add much to our knowledge of fiscal matters in this period. As a "nouveaute" the Greek and demotic texts are published on exactly the same footing, and a constant effort is made to merge the separate worlds of Greek and demotic papyrology. Hand-facsimiles facilitate the consultation of the individual texts; the whole is rounded off by photographic plates showing all texts in full.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Some Early Ptolemaic Tax Receipts from Elephantine -- Some Early Ptolemaic Tax Receipts from Hermonthis -- Three Early Ptolemaic Tax Receipts of Unknown Provenance -- Some Early Ptolemaic Tax Receipts from Thebes -- Receipt for the Price of a Building Plot -- Three Ostraka from Theban Tomb -- Decisory Temple Oath from Jeme -- Some Early Roman Tax Receipts -- Descriptions of the External Features of the Texts -- Indexes -- Plates -- Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava.