This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...to xpWaTf06ai. 20. Our emendation npoarjKn d anortTOKTai for the corrupt irpoo-tntiairoTaKTai of the papyrus changes as little as possible, but djrorVaeTu is hardly expected here. XXI. Proclamation Of Mamertintjs. Harit. 29-4 x 23 cm. A.d. 134. Proclamation of the praefect Marcus Petronius Mamertinus, ordering receipts ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...to xpWaTf06ai. 20. Our emendation npoarjKn d anortTOKTai for the corrupt irpoo-tntiairoTaKTai of the papyrus changes as little as possible, but djrorVaeTu is hardly expected here. XXI. Proclamation Of Mamertintjs. Harit. 29-4 x 23 cm. A.d. 134. Proclamation of the praefect Marcus Petronius Mamertinus, ordering receipts to be given for payments made. After referring to a previous edict of his own on this subject, in which he had directed receipts to be given for payments made in accordance with a written document, Mamertinus extends this decree to all payments made for public purposes whether in kind or money or manual labour. He then notices, in a rather obscurely worded paragraph, an abuse which had arisen in connexion with the payment of debts. Apparently creditors were resorting to the device of refusing to accept payment when offered by the debtor, with the object of inducing the latter to pay more than was legally due in order to escape the penalties to which he would be edict I commanded that receipts should be mutually given with reference to debts secured by documents, on account of the disputes concerning them which had occurred during my office. I now give orders generally with regard to all payments to the government made in any manner either actual or by credit, whether in kind or in money or in bodily labour or any other way whatsoever, that payer and payee shall mutually give receipts; and I will punish any one who acts in any other manner than that hereby directed. Since moreover the complaint has been made by debtors that though they present their accounts to their creditors, the latter are unwilling to accept payment from them in order that they may be induced by the fear of incurring penalties to buy off the delay, those who are thus...
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Publisher:
The Egypt Exploration Fund: Graeco-Roman Branch
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15721507600
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Very Good in None Issued jacket. Modern reprint of the 1900 edition. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is sturdy. The corners of the front cover are bumped. No dust jacket, as issued. Overseas/Priority shipping at cost. 374pp + plates.
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1 corner lightly bumped. Appears to be later reprint.; This book covers the geography of the Fayum and the discovery of papyri there; the authors' excavations at various sites in the oasis; together with numerous Greek texts they found, which they have translated. In Greek and English, and including a map of the Fayum and many indexes and b&w plates. Xiv, 374 pp.; Egypt Exploration Fund Graeco-Roman Branch; 374 pages.
