Guardianship of Women in Late Antique Egypt

I. Papyri Collections:

- AnalPap= Analecta Papyrologica 23 - 24 (2011-2012), 168-170 (2011-2012 [2013])- BASP  = Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists: Supplements. Published irregularly by the Society, 1973— .

- BGU = Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen  (laterStaatlichen) Museen zu Berlin,   Griechische Urkunden. Berlin. II, 1898. Nos. 362—696

- Chrest. Mitt. = L. Mitteis and U. Wilcken, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, II Bd. Juristischer Teil, II Hälfte Chrestomathie. Leipzig-Berlin 1912. Nos. 1—500. [MF 2.122—123 (with Grundzüge); rp. GO, all 4 vols.]

- CPR  = Corpus Papyrorum Raineri. Vienna. V, Griechische Texte II, ed. J.R. Rea and P.J. Sijpesteijn. 1976. Nos. 1—25 plus P.Vindob. G 39847 (No. 26).

 P. Aberd  = Catalogue of Greek and Latin Papyri and Ostraca in the Possession of the University of Aberdeen, ed. E.G. Turner. Aberdeen 1939. (Aberdeen Univ. Studies 116). Nos. 1—2, 7—72, 104—197 are papyri; nos. 3—6, 73—103 ostraca. [MF 2.104]

- P. Abinn: The Abinnaeus Archive: Papers of a Roman Officer in the Reign of Constantius II, ed. H.I. Bell, V. Martin, E.G. Turner, D. van Berchem. Oxford 1962. Nos. 1—82. [Rp. CG]. See also SB X 10755, SB XIV 11380 and SB XX 14954. p.abinn

- P.Cair.Isid. = The Archive of Aurelius Isidorus in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the University of Michigan, ed. A.E.R. Boak and H.C. Youtie. Ann Arbor 1960. Nos. 1—146. [MF 1.28] p.cair.isid

- P.Cair.Masp. = Papyrus grecs d'époque byzantine, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, ed. J. Maspero. Cairo. p.cair.masp

I, 1911. (Cat. 51). Nos. 67001—67124. [MF 1.38; rp. OZ/CG] p.cair.masp;1 Online: archive.org

- P. Hamb = Griechische Papyrusurkunden der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek. III, ed. B. Kramer and D. Hagedorn. Bonn 1984. (Pap.Texte Abh. XXXI). Nos. 193—234.

IV, Milan 1967. Nos. 204—257, plus 3 Coptic texts. p.mil.vogl;4

- P. Herm= Papyri from Hermopolis and Other Documents of the Byzantine Period, ed. B.R. Rees. London 1964. (Egypt Exploration Society, Graeco-Roman Memoirs 42). Nos. 1—85. [EES] p.herm

- P. Oxy.= The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Published by the Egypt Exploration Society in Graeco-Roman Memoirs. London. The number in parentheses at the end of each entry is the number in this series. Earlier vols. carry the heading of Egypt Exploration Fund, Graeco-Roman Branch; even after the title change numbers were not assigned to the volumes until the 1950s. The system followed here is that adopted retroactively by the EES. [all vols. EES], XXII, Nos. 2309—2353, ed. E. Lobel and C.H. Roberts. 1954. (31)   

I, Nos. 1—207, ed. B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt. 1898. (1) p.oxy;1 Cf. P.Oxy.Descr. Online: archive.org Cf. P.Oxy.Descr.

XII, Nos. 1405—1593, ed. B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt, 1916. (15) p.oxy; 12 Online: archive.org

- SB = Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten. (A collection of documentary papyri, ostraca, inscriptions, mummy tablets and related texts published in journals or unindexed catalogues. Begun by F. Preisigke in 1915, continued by F. Bilabel, E. Kiessling, and H.-A. Rupprecht). In progress.

I, Strassburg and Berlin 1913—1915. Nos. 1—6000. [MF 1.33; rp. WdG] Online: archive.org

 III, Berlin and Leipzig 1926—1927. Nos. 6001—7269. [MF 1.35; rp. WdG]

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