Anna Arpaia

Due to its chronological proximity to the publication of the Justinianic archetype, the “Littera Florentina” represents the single most relevant manuscript for the transmission of the Digest. A hitherto unnoticed material aspect of it are several spatia interrupting the scriptio continua – in some cases combined with dots and double dots, which are mainly concentrated in the sections assigned to one of the scribes working on the manuscript. This paper aims to briefly present a new project focused on these material clues, based on the observation that the manuscript contains several relics of the editorial process. The main question is whether the scribes reproduced consciously signs or signals, which were not actually intended to be copied but rather reflected the transmission process behind the Florentina. The main goal is the reconstruction of the model manuscript, thus the attempt at understanding how empty spaces and signals practically originated. A further issue is whether these material elements could explain problematic sections of the excerpta, instead of representing generic semantic breaks, and if they correspond in several cases not only for a matter of chance to attested omissions of text through parallel sources to the original work of the ancient jurists.

We will look at different kinds of sources (papyrological, literary and juridical texts) involving the word paragauda, ae / paragaudes,is, which mostly refers to "something lazed on garment"/"clothing decorated with strips". The main goal is to build up a connection between the sources, to especially analyse the case of "gold strips" on tunics and their context and to point out a possible re-interpretation of relevant passages. Finally, I will show a few material pieces of evidence that shall be evaluated in light of the written sources.

This paper is aimed at pointing out the use of the term paragaudes or paragaudion (both greek and latin) in the Roman world, and analysing the social context in the papyrological sources, along with the prohibition of wearing decorative strips in specific materials addressed in the late antique juridical texts: in particular, I discuss on one side the shape of the decorative strips and the materials applied to different contexts based on the literary sources (purple for the patrician class, gold and silk for the imperial court and the 'vassals'), on the other side the right-angle shape as earlier depiction of the shape associated to the term in later sources, especially the military channel and the evidence of the gamma with notched ends on fabrics and portraits from Nubia, Judea, Syria, Egypt, with some assumptions on the transmission to the imperial clothing and the religious vestments in late antiquity

The Department of Classics at Würzburg University invites students of all levels, academics and professionals in Classics, Ancient History and Ancient Philosophy to participate in the ENCODE winter school "Papyrology for non-specialists". The goal of the school is twofold: It is aimed both at non-specialists who seek a first introduction into papyrology and at papyrologists who are teaching papyrology to students of other subjects. We intend to present and to put into practice a range of methods to make Greek and Latin papyri accessible to the non-specialist, with a focus on digital tools and resources. In this way, we hope to provide beginners with an introduction and a possibility to meet papyrologists, and fellow papyrologists with new ideas and digital methods of teaching.

L’analisi di BGU IV 1158 (9 a.C.) esposta nel presente articolo è basata sul proposito di valorizzare il retroterra giuridico e il contesto storico e sociale di riferimento del documento.
Una deduzione di tale studio in prospettiva diacronica - e non il fine ultimo del contributo - è l’ipotesi che BGU IV 1158 restituisca il primo esempio a noi pervenuto di anticresi (ἀντίχρησις) dall’Egitto romano. L’ἀντίχρησις è un istituto descritto, e introdotto col termine greco, dal giurista Marciano, che si presenta nei documenti egiziani sotto forma di pagamento degli interessi su un credito mediante godimento del fondo garante; fermo restando che l’impiego del termine specifico e il processo di mutuazione dell’anticresi da un contesto provinciale ellenofono al diritto romano si siano verificati in un luogo e momento cronologico ancora indefiniti, appare congruo discutere e riconoscere principi anticretici nella provincia d’Egitto in documenti precedenti l’epoca di Marciano (fine II – inizio III secolo d.C.).
Alla luce del periodo di transizione in cui il documento si inserisce, non stupisce rilevare nella terminologia e nei principi giuridici di BGU IV 1158 elementi in comune tanto con l’età tolemaica, evidente nell’analisi del termine ἀντιπαραχώρησις, quanto con un documento del I secolo d.C. (P.Fouad I 44), interpretato dall’editore come contratto di anticresi. BGU IV 1158 offre, in tal senso, spunti di riflessione sul valore di specifiche formule giuridiche e su potenziali vettori dell’applicazione di principi anticretici.

Il presente papiro dalla collezione della Sorbonne Université (P.Sorb. inv. 2367; TM 128570), datato al 34/5 d.C., restituisce l’offerta di sub-locazione di parcelle dell’οὐσία di Tiberius Iulius Nicanor, nell’entità di 4 arure ubicate nei pressi di Philadelphia. Il proprietario è congetturalmente riconducibile al Nicanor figlio del filosofo Are(i)us di Alessandria, menzionato in Svetonio, e all’ex proprietario di una porzione di campo coinvolta in P.Oxy. XXIV 2410. Uno o due ἔμποροι, presumibilmente attivo/i nella stessa Philadelphia, figurano come titolari e/o referenti di una specifica misura, legata all’importo di locazione (20 artabe di cereali).