This book investigates the linguistic and formal aspects of more than a thousand requests for justice and protection preserved in Egyptian papyri of the Roman Principate, mainly written in Greek. For many centuries in Egypt, from the Ptolemaic period to the late Roman Empire, petitions addressed to the judicial authorities shared the same textual structure and made use of recurring lexical formulas. Such uniformity was the result of the adherence by scribes and legal advisers to repertoires that had wide circulation. This study evaluates the correspondence between the formulas of the petitions and legislation, normative conventions, and spoken and literary language, and how these factors interacted with each other over the centuries.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5169-0791
Book Title
La lingua delle petizioni nell’Egitto romano
Book Subtitle
Evoluzione di lessico, formule e procedure dal 30 a.C. al 300 d.C.
Authors
Roberto Mascellari
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
1420
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-446-5
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-445-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-446-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-447-2
Series Title
Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli»
Series ISSN
2533-2414
Series E-ISSN
2612-7997