A Roman Property Declaration from the Michigan Papyrus Collection

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CPR               =Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, ed. by Wessely. C.,Vienna, 1895 ff.

P.Bas.            = Papyri of the University Library of Basel, ed. E. Rabel, Berlin 1917 ff.

1. Berl.Leihg. = Berliner Leihgabe griechischer Papyri. ed. T. Kalén and the Greek Seminar at Uppsala. Uppsala 1932 ff.

P.Col.                 =Columbia Papyri, ed. by Westermann,  W.L., New York, 1929.

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P.Lond.              = Greek Papyri in the British Museum, ed. by Kenyon, F.G., London, 1893 ff.

P.Louvre            = Griechische Papyri der Cahiers P. 1 und P. 2 aus der Sammlung des Louvre, ed. by A. Jördens and P. Schubert, Bonn, 2005.

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P.Mich.          = Papyri in the University Michigan Collection, ed. by Edgar, C.C., Ann Arbor, 1931 ff.

P.Münch.           = Die Papyri der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, Byzantinische Papyri der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, ed. by Heisenberg, A., Hagedorn, D., and Wenger, L., Stuttgart, 1986 ff.

P.Oxf.                = Some Oxford Papyri, ed. by E.P. Wegener, Leiden, 1942.

P.Oxy.                = The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Published by the Egypt Exploration Society in Graeco-Roman Memoirs, ed. by B.P. Grenfell and Hunt, A.S., Bell H.I. and others, London, 1898 ff.

P.Petaus.           = Das Archiv des Petaus, ed. by Hagedorn, U., Hagedorn, D., Youtie, L.C., and Youtie, H.C., Opladen, 1969.

P.Prag.               = Papyri Graecae Wessely Pragenses, ed. R. Pintaudi, R. Dostálová and L. Vidman. Firenze 1988 ff.

 

P.Ross.Georg.    = Papyri russischer und georgischer Sammlungen, ed. by Zereteli, G., Krüger, O., Jernstedt, P., Tiflis, 1925 ff.

P.Ryl.=                Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, ed. by Johnson, M., Hunt, A.S., Roberts C.H. and Turner, E.G., Manchester— London, 1911 ff.

P.Stras.             = Griechische    Papyrus    der    Kaiserlichen Universitäts und Landes- bibliothek zu Strassburg, ed. by Preisigke, F., Leipzig, 1912 ff.

P.Wisc.            = The Wisconsin Papyri, ed. P.J. Sijpesteijn, 1967.

PSI                     = Papiri greci e latini. (Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto), ed. by Vitelli, G. and Norsa, M. and others, Florence, 1912 ff.

SB                  = Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten, Begun by Preisigke, F. in 1915, continued by Bilabel, F. Kiesslin, E., Strassburg – Berlin, 1913 ff.

W.Chr.           = Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, I Bd. Historischer Teil, II Hälfte Chrestomathie. Ed. by L. Mitteis and U. Wilcken, Leipzig-Berlin, 1912.

ZPE                = Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Published currently in four or five issues a year by Dr Rudolf Habelt, Bonn, 1967 ff.

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