A Transportation Archive from Fourth-Century Oxyrhynchus (P. Mich. XX) [Hardcover]

This volume publishes twenty-seven Greek papyri concerned with the transport of grain from Oxyrhynchus to Alexandria and Pelusium. Each text is presented with introduction, Greek text, English translation, and explanatory notes. In the general introduction, the authors discuss the process of grain transport in fourth century CE Egypt as illustrated by the texts published here and by others, previously published, from Oxyrhynchus.