K. A. Worp

Noted Papyrologist Dr Pieter Johannes Sijpesteijn died in 1996. This publication is a collection of papers dedicated to his memory from his fellow papyrologists. The contributions provide an appealing impression of the multifarious content of papyri from Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt.

This volume publishes 27 Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with introduction, Greek text, English translation and explanatory notes. In the general introduction, the authors discuss the process of grain transport in fourth century C. E. Egypt as illustrated by the texts published here and by others, previously published, from Oxyrhynchus.

This volume of selected papyri from the Columbia collection looks at both literary and documentary texts. Papyri originally published before 1980 have been reedited, while others appear here for the first time. Unlike prior volumes publishing Columbia papyri, which focused on one significant document, this volume presents a veritable cornucopia of texts, hands, dates, and provenances.