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Schwendner, Gregg William, Ph.D. The University of Michigan, 1988

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Gregg

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LITERARY AND NON-LITERARY PAPYRI FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COLLECTION

by

Gregg A dissertation of the in

William

Schwendner

submitted in partial fulfillment requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Classical Studies) The University of Michigan 1988

Doctoral

Committee: Professor Professor Associate Assistant

Ludwig Koenen, Chairman H.D.Cameron Professor Peter Machinist Professor David Potter

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work.

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must have been approved by the author as well as by the Dea!1 of

the Graduate material

or publication

School.

Proper credit

from the dissertation

must be given to the author if any

is used in subsequent

written

or published

©1988

GREGG WILLIAM SCHWEHDNER All Right:,Reserved

Jean

Schwendner

MNHMHCAPICTHC and

Susie,

Sine

ii

Qua Non

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Although me from more

a list

writing

a

interesting

of those

reading

staff

of

the

sypen

and

David

ter

Rare

Book

two at

W.G.

Forest

able

to

work

week

in

July-

August

tion

to

text

12_, and

was

my good

Piet for

of

the

fortune

Sijpesteijn his

Thanks John

Dillary,

Carl

and

ment.

It

press

the

inability regard

to

my friends Carole

Nancy

for

commonplace

debt

owed

express

Ludwig

that

I might preparing visit

This Simply iii

is

also

put,

Keith,

Rauk,

and

encouragG~

lammenting my

and

grateful.

acknowledgments by

It

13 while

Alison

and

a

it.

to Ann Arbor,

sympathy

be

for

text

Martinez,

advisor

and

my ~tten-

I am extremely

such

chap-

me to

publish

their

it.

of

drew

John

an

loaned

for

Loftus,

of

Vander-

helpful.

Ariel

to

Koenen.

the

Libraries

Youtie

David

Pobst,

Anderson

a

to

Ashmolean

and and help

Ann Arbor,

of Ann Arbor

arranged

was on an extended

to

is

Potter

been

or

completion

Louise

suggested

encouraging,

generously

the

and

have

very

mak:e

now follow

Karla

Unversity

Oxford

1987.

In

been

David

Bodleian

will

particular

also

moment.

to

encouragement also

in

facilitated

of

that

discourage would

helpful,

Harvard

New College,

in

one

observed.

have

that

a crucial

the

Room,

of

to

dissertation

be

Whitsell,

books

who tried

stages,

must

Henrichs

me two rare

people

than

various

protocol

Albert

the

papyrological

who were,

supporti•Je,

of

to

one's

complaint

I am indebted

ex-

with to

him

for

his

teaching,

scholarship. is

too

To my wife,

extensive

express

and

suffice

Susie,

she /

cvµBoAov

more

,

the

example

I owe the to

Instead

that as

and

personal

sufficiently.

dissertation must

friendship,

rehearse of

than /

ano8oc€wc.

iv

most. publically,

words,

anyone

of

has

the made

his This

own debt or

completed possible

to

PREFACE

The variety are

of

in

a

selection

not

usually

lectional tary

papyri

the

literary

Iota

text.

in

common use

a (e.g.

texts

of so

as

in

to

is

New testament

subli

the

the

used used

adscript writers).

V

In

any

in

Ann

reflect

terary

an

texts

represent scribe. the

present in

the

here was

for no

the

Documen-

with

when is

also

to

accurately by

me

would

texts.

and

written

when

chosen

accordance

subcript

subscript

period

were

author

to

this

new texts

world.

available

used

is

the

wide

for

of

or

documentary

signs

iota

subject in

a

reasons

number

literary

accented

otherwise

not

and

adscript

Iota

papyrus,

writing

too,

accentual are

necessary

was

cover

The

collection

accented

and

practice.

the

both

any

transcriptions

The

are

on papyrus.

on a single

in

But partly,

interest

intentionally

since

find

such

Arbor.

written

documents)

to

event,

here

practical,

than

hard

edited

texts

partly

(other be

papyri

modern in

the

notes

to

authors

longer

in

TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION.

.

.

.ii

ACKOWLEDGMENTS. PREFACE .....

iii

. .v

.

EDITORIAL SIGLA AND TERMS.

vii

CHAPTER I.

MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY AND SUBLITERARY 1'EX'rs. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

a.

II.

III.

IV.

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Panegyrikos of EuX'ipides

9.

Hypothesd.s

10.

ptomenos A Ptolema.ic

CHRISTIAN

. .1

103-104

14-16 Kai.ly-

Hippolytos

O

Multipli~ation

HOMERICA ......

.

Table

.

· 31

TEXTS .....

99

PTOLEMAIC DOCUMENTS.. 14. 15.

BIBLIOGRJ.\PHY.

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vi

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Non-Payment against .

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115

EDITORIAL [

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enclose the

letters

surface

SIGLA AND TERMS

in

of

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papyrus




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inserted

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letters

deleted

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written

below

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alone,

Abbreviations

[

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for

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enclosed

in

different Front

and

back

recto

and

verso

these

than are

to

used

refer

above

should

the

read

be deleted.

line. letters;

when

illegible

traces

of

works

are

those

in

chapter

II

only,

witnesses

of

for

scribe.

thinks

brac~ets that

where

editor.

the

indicate

cases

stripped).

by the by

and

commentary

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editor

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authors

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have the

lemma

in

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papyrus.

individual

exclusively

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pieces.

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indicated. vac.

indicates

that

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papyrus

is

the

papyrus

is

written

against

the

papyrus

is

written

with

writing.

vii

blank the

the

at fibers.

fibers.

the

point

CHAPTER I

MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY AND SUBLITERARY TEXTS

The

majority

in

papyri

Homeric 1

1975),

the

Michigan

Papyri

in

edited

identified. fact, inventory The

Allen's

(1982), 2

of

identified

are

Michigan

edited

edited

by

papyrus

from

the

in

ZPE

56

papyri

small

(diss.

of

Ptolemaic

this

G.M.

period

11-15.

no.2

in

Mich.

students

(1984),

only

chapter,

the

by N.E.Priest,

Collection

being

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the

was

previously

chapter

are,

in

in

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fragments

not

included

chapter

are

collated

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sigla

p:i:•oper. Homeric edi tio

and

texts

in

this

maior

of

the

papyri

diacritical

of

which

below

are

marks,

reflect

transcriptions

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of

a group

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this

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from

the

for

in

previously

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are

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of

of

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have

form

against used

that

edition.

punctuation papyrus

been

in

used

accented

(words

published

for

in

ZPE

46

51-94.

C.W.Shelmerdine, BASP 12 (1975), 19-22; D.C.Elliott, BASP 14 (1977), 105-8; R.J.Heisler, and A.B.Breen ZPE 56 (1984), 10 and 11 respectively; A.T.Watanabe 59 (1985), 27-8; R.Warga (ZPE forthcoming).

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