Edgar Campbell Cowan. Zenon Papyri: Volume II

Georg Olms Verlag, 1971. — 280 p. — (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire).The present volume continues the publication of t he dated documents from
the archives of Zenon, the 158 texts which are here printed covering the period
between the beginning of year 30 and the end of year 35 ( 256 to 250 B. C. ).
About forty of the more interesting have been alread y published in ou r Annales,
and many of the others are for the present merel y fragments, thou gh I ha ve
little doubt that some of them will be completed before ver y long by the discovery
of the missing parts. But besides these the reader will find he re a large
quantity of quite new material arranged in the order in which it once passed
through Zenon's hands. During the pe riod in question Zenon was permanently
stationed at Philadelphia and the position which he occupied there as Apollonios'
man of business brought him a multitude of correspondents from all classes
of the population. Above all we have a long series of lette rs fro m Apollonios
himself; and though these are mainly instructions about the management
of the estate, the actual words of a man who for many years played a lea ding
part in public life, revealing as they do something of his real character , cannot
fail to be interesting.