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Neue Quellen zum griechisch-römisch-byzantinischen Ägypten : Erstedition von fünfzehn griechischen Papyrustexten der Berliner Papyrussammlung
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dissertation presents the first edition of fifteen unpublished Greek
papyri preserved in the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in
Berlin. The papyri illustrate various aspects of the social,
administrative, economic and cultural life of Graeco-Roman-Byzantine
Egypt from the 3rd century BCE until the 7th century CE. They were
acquired by the Egyptian Museum in Berlin through excavations or
purchases from various sites in Egypt. The dissertation is divided into
three main sections, which correspond to the different typologies of
texts edited: 'Literature', 'Science' and 'Documentary Papyri'. The
first part, 'Literature', opens with a brief excursus on the Homeric
papyri, which focuses in particular on the papyri's contribution to the
reconstruction of the ancient text of the Iliad and the Odyssey and
discusses the central role of Homer as a point of reference for the
Greek cultural identity in Egypt. The excursus provides a framework for
the first papyrus edited in the dissertation, which contains parts of
Odyssey XIX. The second part, 'Science', deals with papyri of medical
content, focusing especially on a particular area of ancient medicine:
pharmacology. This section presents the editions of three medical papyri
containing recipes for various scopes. The third part contains editions
of eleven documentary papyri, which shed light on specific aspects of
everyday life in Greco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt. Each papyrus provides new
attestations for words, expressions, concepts and types of documents,
which could be helpful for further research not only within the field of
Papyrology but also of Ancient History and Classical Philology
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