Odysseus’ Ptocheia in Troy

Zusammenfassung

This fragment of papyrus roll was acquired with a group of Ptolemaic documents from a dealer in Luxor. Its appearance in a lot containing P. Köln I 50 and 51, which both record the sale of property in the locality of Pathyris in 99 B. C., suggests that it was probably unearthed in Upper Egypt.

This edition grew out of a doctoral thesis defended in 1984 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My deepest thanks go to my thesis advisor, Prof. L.Koenen, and to Prof. R. Merkelbach who kindly allowed me to study the fragment. My work profited greatly from the many suggestions by the above, and by Drs. C. Austin and K. Maresch, Profs. T. Buttrey, M. Gellrich, M. Gronewald, M. Haslam, R. Kannicht, R. Kassel, H. Lloyd-Jones, G. Nachtergael, S. Radt, M. L.West, R. Williams and Mr. P. Parsons. To all I am extremely grateful. This ed. pr. will soon be followed by a small monograph, where I have discussed the papyrus at greater length.