Giulio Iovine – författare

This is a full new edition of the Latin papyri from Dura Europos, which provide a wealth of material for several branches of Classical scholarship. They are a priceless source for palaeographers investigating the history of Latin writing, inasmuch as they represent a real archive containing documents produced by scribes who were presumably competent in both Latin and Greek. Historians of the Roman Empire and Roman army are offered a glance inside the everyday life of a Roman camp built within a Hellenized town of Semitic origin with a flourishing Jewish community. The papyri also provide glimpses into spoken Latin and substandard varieties, and the Latin texts survive alongside written samples of eight other languages (Greek, Palmyrenean, Hatrean, Syriac, Parthian and Pehlevi, Hebrew and Safaitic). The editions are accompanied by translations and notes, while the volume also includes a substantial introduction, appendix, and thorough commentary on the Feriale Duranum.

The volume comprises over forty studies in Papyrology and Greek literature. These range from editions of new Greek literary and documentary texts on papyrus (and one tablet in Latin) to new research on previously known papyri from a textual, material, historical, or literary angle and from new studies on non-papyrological texts to essays on the history of papyrus and of papyrology. The chapters are arranged into four sections:  Unpublished Papyri: eight papyri and one tablet, labelled as P.Colomo and T.Colomo respectively;Studies on Edited Papyri: new studies on already published papyri, including re-editions;Studies Involving Papyri: broader studies on various aspects of papyrology;Greek Literary and Textual Studies: fresh diversions from papyrology.The authors of the chapters share professional bonds as colleagues or students of Daniela Colomo, (long-time curator of the Oxyrhynchus collection in Oxford and now responsible for the P.Med. collection in Milan). The volume is dedicated to her.