Papyri from the New York University Collection II (P. NYU II)

This volume contains 53 literary and documentary texts, that, with the exception of two related fragments from the collections of Princeton University and the Istituto Papirologico 'G. Vitelli' in Florence, are all preserved in the papyrus collection at New York University. For this publication, the four separate shipments originating in the well-known magazine of Papyrology and Epigraf (Bonn) are fully re-published and, if necessary, updated. The documentary texts represent all periods of the history of Greco-Roman Egypt between 330 BCE and 800 CE (i.e. the Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine and early Arab periods.) The different places of origin paint an equally colorful spectrum: the majority of texts date from the Arsinoites, the Oxyrhynchites, or the Hermopolites, but a rather uncommon province, Aphroditopolites, is also represented. For many texts the precise origin is simply unknown. While an overview of the published New York University papyri dominates the text, the usual indices close out the text, at the end of which images of the individual objects are provided.