Papiri della Società Italiana. : Volume XVI, Volume sedicesimo (PSI XVI) / Francesca Maltomini, Guido Bastianini, Gabriella Messeri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maltomini, Francesca, author.

Bastianini, Guido, author.

Messeri, Gabriella, author.

Series:

Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli»

Language:

Italian

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri).

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)--Italy.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (434 p.)

Other Title:

Papiri della Società Italiana. Vol. XVI

Papiri della Società Italiana

Place of Publication:

Firenze : Firenze University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

Edizioni dell'Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli.

Summary:

This volume is the 16th of the PSI series (started by Girolamo Vitelli in 1912) and contains the edition of 79 texts written in Greek on papyri or other materials (wood, parchment), coming from Egypt and kept at the Papyrological Institute «G. Vitelli». There are both fragments of famous Ancient Greek authors (Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Plutarch; the Septuagint, Cyril of Alexandria, the Physiologist), as well as fragments of unknown works: among others, a grammar text on the Ionian dialect and a doxographic fragment on Aristotelian philosophy. Then, there are texts of documentary nature: petitions, tax receipts, registers, reports, private letters, testimony of the daily life in Egypt during Roman and Byzantine times.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Worldcat, viewed March 24, 2023).